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THE THREE BEARS. The Pictures by R. Andre [William Roger Snow].
New York: McLoughlin Bros, No date [circa 1888]. [16] pages including outer wrappers. Illustrated with 6 coloured full-page illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. 210 x 160 mm. Lower outer corner of upper wrapper a little creased; spine expert repaired; else a very good copy.
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THE THREE BEARS. Walter Crane's Toy Books. New Series. Price Six pence; or mounted on linen, One Shilling.
London: George Routledge & Sons, No date [circa 1876]. [8] leaves, the first and last mounted as pastedowns to the wrappers, each with an illustration in full colour with inset verse. Original pictorial series wrappers. 24.8 x 18.7 cm. Spine expertly restored; else a very good/fine copy
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THE THREE CAKES: or, the Generous Youth. To which is added, The Prodigal Doubly Punished. Embellished with 16 fine Engravings on wood.
London: Printed for Whitrow & Co. Jewry-street, Aldgate; and sold by all Booksellers, &c. in Town and Country, No date [circa 1820s]. (Price Threepence.) 32 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Wood-engraved pastedown frontispiece and fourteen small woodcuts within the text. Original wrappers with a wood-engraving to the upper panel. 115 x 73 mm. A near fine copy. Scarce.
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THE THREE GIFTS; or, The History of Young Farmer Gubbins. By Mrs. Cockle, author of The Fishes’ Grand Gala, Juvenile Journal, & c. Embellished with Six excellent Engravings, from original Designs by a Lady of Distinction.
London: C. Chapple; B. Tabart, 1809. 15 [1] pp. 6 folding engraved plates. Bound in recent quarter red sheep over marbled boards with vellum tips, gilt title to spine. Some offsetting; some creasing and marking to the folding part of the plates; else a very good copy of an extremely rare title. Moon [Tabart] 24[1]., lists two copies only.
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THE THREE SONS-IN-LAW. A free version from the German of Musäus. With illustrations.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Limited, 1861. [ii], 72 pages. Engraved frontispiece and six full-page illustrations combined with verse. Original decorative green cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Quarto: 260 x 200 mm. First edition. Binding a little worn; else a very good copy of a scarce title.
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THE THREE TRAVELLING COCKS. (Price One Penny.)
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, No date [circa 1815]. 16 pages the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated with a wood-engraved paste-down frontispiece, a vignette on title, and 8 wood-engravings and a wood-engraved tailpiece. Original printed wrappers with wood-engravings to both upper and lower panels. 104 x 62 mm. A very good copy. No copies of this exact title on Copac, though there are variant titles issued by Oliver & Boyd, circa 1820.
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The Tiger who went to the Moon. Written and drawn by Nancy Spain.
London: Max Parrish, 1956. 36 pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original red boards, with a tiger on the front panel. Original unprice-clipped pictorial dust-wrapper. First edition. Wrapper chipped at spine and corners; some loss of paper at the base of the wrapper; else a very good copy. Rarely found in the original wrapper.
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THE TINDER BOX animated by Julian Wehr.
New York: Stephen Daye, Inc, 1945. With five full-page coloured moveable illustrations, and others. Original pictorial boards; spiral bound. No dust-wrapper. First edition. Ownership stamps to the front and rear paste-downs; the rear paste-down has a library pocket; else very good, with all moveable plates working correctly.
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THE TOILET.
London: Rock Brothers & Payne, No date. (circa. 1850). [20]pp.; printed on one side of page only. Illustrated with hand-coloured lithograph title and nine hand-coloured lithograph plates with moveable flaps. Original black morocco; a.e.g. Upper cover title, The Lady’s Toilet, lettered gilt within a gilt decorative frame. a.e.g. 11.7 x 9.8 cm’s. Neat ownership inscription to front endpaper; else a near fine copy. Rarely found complete or in such good condition.
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THE TOILET.
London: Published by the author and sold by W. Sams, 1821. Engraved frontispiece and nine hand-coloured engraved plates with moveable sections. Semi-stiff printed boards.. First edition, second issue with a cancel title. 131 x 110 mm. Inscription on endpaper A very good copy contained in a calf gilt folding case.
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THE TOILET.
London: Published by the author and sold by W. Sams, Bookseller to H. R. H. The Duke of York, 1821. Second edition. Illustrated with nine of hand-coloured plates with flaps which when raised reveal virtuous versions of the articles found on a young lady's dressing table: the enchanting mirror (humility); a wash to smooth wrinkles (contentment); a universal beautifier (good humour); matchless ear rings (attention), best white paint (innocence), superior rouge (modesty), a mixture to sweeten the voice (mildness and truth), fine lip salve (cheerfulness), and the late King's eye water (benevolence). Original printed paper covered boards. 133 x 108 mm. Spine restored; boards lightly soiled and rubbed; corners worn; else a very good copy with all flaps present. The first edition was published in the same year.
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THE TOILET.
London: Published by the author and sold by Ackermann…, 1823. Third edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and nine of hand-coloured plates with flaps meant to be raised to reveal virtuous versions of the articles found on a young lady's dressing table: the enchanting mirror (humility); a wash to smooth wrinkles (contentment); an universal beautifier (good humour); matchless ear rings (attention), best white paint (innocence), superior rouge (modesty), a mixture to sweeten the voice (mildness and truth), fine lip salve (cheerfulness), and the late King's eye water (benevolence). Original printed paper covered boards. 133 x 113 mm. Spine a little worn and boards lightly soiled; later inscription on front end-paper; else a very good copy with all flaps present.
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THE TOMNODDY'S SONGSTER.
London: J. Catnach, No date [circa 1835]. [8] pages, plus wrappers. Wood-engraved vignette on both upper and lowers panels of the yellow wrappers, and with two small woodcuts within the text. Unstitched as issued. Approximately 12.5 x 9 cm's. A very good copy of a chapbook of popular songs and ballads.
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THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW. Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No. 2.
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, No date [circa 1903]. [2] pages, including wrappers. Illustrated in colour throughout. Printed on double leaves of crepe paper. A very good copy. An evil woman cuts a sparrow’s tongue. An elderly couple befriend the sparrow and nurse it back to health, and are subsequently rewarded for their kindness.
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THE TOWN & COUNTRY MOUSE and other Fables.
London & Belfast: Marcus Ward & Co, No date [circa 1880's]. [12] pages. Illustrated with 6 colour plates. Original pictorial wrappers. 28.4 x 20 cm. Spine worn and splitting at heel; else very good.
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THE TRAGICAL DEATH OF A APPLE-PYE, who was Cut in Pieces and Eat by Twenty-five Gentlemen with whom All Little People Ought to be very well acquainted.
Printed and sold by J Thompson. No21, Eastsmithfield [sic], No date. [Circa 1800.]. 16pp. Illustrated with three small woodcuts. Self wrappers. Approx: 9 x 5.6 cm’s. Though the cuts are slightly different, the textual content is identical to that of the John Evans edition above, save that ‘little readers… run to Mr Thompson’s No, 21, East-Smithfield’, rather than ‘Mr. Evans’s, No. 42, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield.’ Cut a little crookedly at fore-edge, else a very good copy. Publications by J. Thompson are very scarce.
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THE TRANSMIGRATIONS OF INDUR, An Indian Brachman, Through the Bodies of an Antelope, Wild Goose, Dormouse, Elephant, Whale, Bee, Rabbit, Mastiff, and his return to the Human Form.
London: Houlston and Co, No date [circa 1840]. 44, [2 ad's] pages. Illustrated with woodcuts. Original wrappers with cut to upper panel. 12 x 7.7 cm. A very good copy of this scarce chapbook.
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THE TRAVELLER: or, an entertaining journey round the Habitable Globe; being a novel and easy method pf studying Geography. Illustrated with forty-two plates, consisting of views of the principal capital cities of the world, and the costume of its various inhabitants.
London: J. Harris and Son, No date [1820]. viii, 204 pages. Illustrated with 2 maps, four hand-coloured engraved plates of costumes, and 18 plates of views, each bearing two hand-coloured engravings. Sometime re-bound in half calf gilt over marbled boards. 171 x 108 mm. First edition. The engraved vignette on the title has been coloured by a child owner; few marks here & there; else a very good copy, complete with half-title. See Moon 907(1).
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THE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF JOHN BULL THE YOUNGER.
London: J. Harris and Son, 1824. Title and [14] leaves, printed on one side only and bearing a hand-coloured engraving with text beneath; plus one page advertising Harris’s Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction. Lacks original wrappers; bound in recent plain paper wrappers. 169 x 108 mm. The occasional mark; neat gift inscription at head of title. A very good copy. Quite a scarce title. First published in 1823. See Moon 908(2).
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The Travels and Adventures of the Two Brothers, ALONZO & PIZARRO and the History of two Dogs.
London: T. Goode, No date [between 1847 and 1879]. 12 pages. Illustrated with a coloured wood-engraving on title, and two other small uncoloured woodcuts. Original printed wrapper with a woodcut to the upper panel. 160 x 104 mm. Two tiny tears to fore-edge of title; else a very good copy.
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