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THE VILLAGE SCHOOL; or, a Collection of Entertaining Histories, for the Instruction and Amusement of all Good Children. In Two Volumes.
London: Printed & Sold by J. Marshall & Co. No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard, in Bow Lane. [Price Six Pence, Bound and Gilt.]. No date [between 1779 and 1789]. Volume II only. 105 pages. Engraved frontispiece and title, and twenty-two woodcuts. Contemporary marbled paper-covered boards. 124 x 82 mm. Contained in a cloth gilt folding box. Lacks front endpaper; short tear in frontispiece but without loss; some paper lost from spine; else a very good copy. Two woodcuts show scenes relating to cricket.
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THE VISIT FOR A WEEK; or, Hints on the Improvement of Time. Containing original tales, anecdotes from Natural and Moral History, &c. Designed for the Amusement of Youth. The Third edition. Revised and Corrected. By the author of The Six Princesses of Babylon, Juvenile Magazine, Knight of the Rose, and Ambrose and Eleanor.
London: Hookham and Carpenter… and for the Author, at the Juvenile Library…, 1796. [2], 335, [2 ad's] pages. Contemporary full sheep; red git label to spine. 12mo. Joints cracked and worn, with some small loss of leather; no half-title, if called for; ownership inscription for 1816 on front endpaper; else a good, clean copy. First published in 1794.
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THE VISIT OF ST. NICHOLAS.
London: Henry J. Drane, No date [circa 1895]. Softcover. [18, [2]] pages plus covers. With 15 illustrations. Original pictorial stiff covers; gold thread securing the spine, as issued. 15.3 x 11.7 cm. A very good copy of a scarce printing of Moore's 'The Night Before Christmas.' This was also issued in New York by E. P. Dutton & Co.
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THE VISIT TO THE FARM.
London: Faber and Faber, No date [1939]. [32] pages. Illustrated in colour. Original pictorial paper-covered boards; original pictorial dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. The bottom inch of the rear inner joint has an old worm track; else a fine copy.
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THE VISITS OF TOMMY LOVEBOOK to his neighbouring Little Masters and Misses. Embellished with Cuts.
London: J. Harris, 1815. [Price Three-pence.] 64 pages. First leaf [frontispiece] a pastedown. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 12 woodcuts within the text all by John Bewick. Original printed wrappers. Spine a little worn with some loss of paper; else a very good copy of a chapbook first published by Elizabeth Newbery in 1792, and by Harris in 1804. Moon 958(4).
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THE VISITS OF TOMMY LOVEBOOK to his neighbouring Little Masters and Misses. Embellished with Cuts. [Price Three-pence.]
London: J. Harris, 1815. 64 pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 12 woodcuts within the text, all by John Bewick. Plain blue wrappers that look to have been recycled from another work, as they are printed on the inner faces. 109 x 72mm. Bound in twentieth century red calf gilt over cloth, and contained in a matching slipcase. A very good copy of a chapbook first published by Elizabeth Newbery in 1792, and by Harris in 1804. See Moon 958(4). Despite this being the last Harris edition, this is a rare chapbook.
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THE VISITS OF TOMMY LOVEBOOK to his neighbouring Little Masters and Misses. Embellished with Cuts. [Price Two Pence.]
London: J. Harris, 1806. 64 pages. First leaf [frontispiece] a paste-down. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 12 woodcuts within the text all by John Bewick. Original printed blue upper wrapper; the lower plain wrapper has been supplied. 98 x 63 mm. A very good copy of a chapbook first published by Elizabeth Newbery in 1792, and by Harris in 1804. Moon 958(2).
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THE WALLYPUG IN LONDON. Illustrated by Alan Wright.
London: Methuen & Co, 1898. xv, [1], 174, [2], 40 ad’s dated November 1897 pages. Original pictorial boards. Octavo. First edition. Little cocked, else a very good copy. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on front endpaper: ‘Oh Wallypug! Oh Wallypug! Where ever you may be, The little boys & girls I am sure Will often dream of thee. Jubilee Rhymester 22/11/97.’ [13807]
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THE WATER BABIES.
London & Glasgow.Collins' Clear-type Press. No date. 198pp. Coloured frontispiece and title. Full pictorial paper-covered boards by Jessie M. King. Slight wear to spine edges as with all title in this series; small split at base of base; but a very good, clean copy - much, much better than usually found.
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THE WATER BABIES. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
London: Hodder and Stoughton for Boots the Chemist, No date [inscribed 1934]. 240 pages. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in full-colour plates and many illustrations within the text. Original pictorial green cloth gilt; original green dust-wrapper with mounted illustration to front panel. Gift inscription on front pastedown; some light spotting to fore-edges; else a fine copy in a fresh, bright binding.
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THE WATER-BABIES: a fairy tale for a Land=Baby. With two illustrations by J. Noel Paton.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1863. 350 pages. Full green morocco gilt by Bayntun-Riviere, with the original cloth upper cover bound in at end. All edges gilt. Octavo. First edition. A very handsome copy. Lacking, as usual, the leaf B1 with the poem ‘L’Envoi,’ which Kingsley suppressed during the printing.
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THE WATER-BABIES A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby By Charles Kingsley. New edition with one hundred illustrations by Linley Sambourne.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1886. [6], 371, [1] pages. Illustrated throughout in line. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. All edges gilt. 215 x 172 mm. Binding just a little cocked; some light spotting to front endpaper, and last page a little browned; small patch of water-staining to front board; else a very good, bright, clean, copy. First published in 1863 with just two illustrations by J. Noel Paton, this is the first fully illustrated edition.
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THE WATER-BABIES: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. With two illustrations by J. Noel Paton, R.S.A.
London & Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1863. viii, 350 pages. Late nineteenth century morocco gilt. All edges gilt. First edition; first issue, complete with the l’envoi leaf. Few occasional light marks and the odd spot of foxing; else a very handsome copy; bookplate of James Kenneth Howard. A very handsome copy.
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THE WATER-KING’S LEVEE; or, The Gala at the Lake. A sequel to “The Peacock at Home.” For children of all ages and sizes. With appropriate Engravings. Second edition.
London: W. Lindsell, 1808. 24 pages. Illustrated with five full-page engravings. Original printed wrappers. 122 x 105 mm. Wrappers worn with a short split at the heel and a small arear of paper lacking from the rear panel. Contained in a folding cloth case. The first edition has six engravings, but would appear to have a different frontispiece; so, it may be that this copy lacks a plate or, is in fact, complete.
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THE WAY OF LIVING IN A METHOD, and by Rule: Or, A Regular Way of Employing our Time: Recommended in a short, plain, practical Discourse to the Charity-Schools, for the Use of the Youth brought up in them. By a Presbyter of the Church of England.
London: Printed and Sold by Joseph Downing, 1722. 27, [1 ad’] pages. As issued, but disbound from a collection of tracts and in need of stitching. 150 x 88 mm. Probably the first edition, but certainly the earliest recorded in ESTC, where two copies are listed as being held in British institutions, and one in the United States. Rare.
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THE WAY TO BE HAPPY: or, The History of the Family at Smiledale. To which is added, The Story of Little George.
Glasgow: J. Lumsden & Son, 1819. 47 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and 12 circular woodcuts within rectangular frames. Original wrappers with printed title label to the upper cover. 133 x 86 mm. First edition issued by Lumsden, after editions by Newbery and Harris. Spine restored, else a very good copy. Roscoe and Brimmell 136.
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THE WEATHER FAIRIES. Verse by Marion St. John Webb. Illustrations by Margaret W. Tarrant.
London: The Modern Art Society Ltd, No date. 40 pages. Illustrated with 6 mounted colour plates, and many black & white vignettes that have been finely coloured by a former owner. Original boards with a duplicate plate mounted to the front panel. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. 158 x 121 mm. Small piece chipped from spine of wrapper; wrapper a little dust-soiled; else a very good copy.
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THE WEDDING AMONG THE FLOWERS. By one of the authors of Original Poems, Rhymes For the Nursery, &c.
London: Darton and Harvey, 1808. 16 pages. Engraved frontispiece and five other plates. Original pictorial wrappers titled: ‘The Wedding of the Flowers.’ First edition. Covers soiled; ink ownership inscription and some smudging to blank verso of cover; small corner missing from upper cover; spine expertly repaired & re-cased; else a very good copy of this very scarce imitation of the Butterfly’s Ball, published a year earlier. Darton G383. The illustrations were drawn and engraved by the author’s brother Isaac Taylor.
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THE WEDDING AMONG THE FLOWERS. By one of the authors of Original Poems, Rhymes for the Nursery, &c.
London: Darton and Harvey, 1808. 16 pages. Illustrated with six engraved plates. Original pictorial wrappers. The entire book bound in full morocco gilt. 122 x 102 mm. First edition. Some staining to the plates; else a very good copy.
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THE WELCOME VISITOR, or, The Good Uncle: being a collection of original stories, containing several well-authenticated anecdotes, displaying Striking Traits of virtue and Heroism in early life.
London: Harris and Son, 1820. 176 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original quarter roan over marbled boards. 148 x 96 mm. First edition. One signature loosening; boards rubbed at edges, and head of spine with slight loss; else a very good copy. See Moon 973.
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