London: R. Harrild, 20, Great Eastcheap, No date [circa 1815]. Price Threepence. 31[32] pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and fourteen woodcuts within the text. Original printed blue wrappers. 112 x 71 mm. A very good copy of a scarce chapbook. Library Hub records one copy only

London: William Darton, 1823. 178 pages, Engraved frontispiece and two other engraved plates. Original quarter sheep gilt over marbled boards. 148 x 95 mm. First edition. Blank recto of frontispiece a little spotted; some off-setting to the title; spine expertly repaired. A very good copy. Darton H1506.

London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd, 1925. 74 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 255 x 195 mm. First edition. Pasted to the front fixed endpaper in a 18 line typed letter from the author, signed Frank, in ink. ‘To My Dear Peg’ [Peggy Chappe Hall], explaining that the book has been developed from some sketches that he drew for her, and that ‘if it hadn’t been for you, this book would never have been written.’ Boards a little rubbed and worn; else a very good presentation copy of an uncommon title. [15072]

London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd, 1925. 74 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 255 x 195 mm. First edition. Boards a little rubbed and worn; else a very good presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ‘With love from Frank, hoping it will amuse you. I got the idea of this book from a man in Rhodesia who had mixed his drinks and declared that he had shot a “Rhinostrich” and a “Hipposoceros”!!’

London: Frederick Warne & Co, No date [inscribed 1883]. 6 pages of text, the first and last as pastedowns to the covers; 6 full-page colour chromo-lithograph illustrations by Kronheim & Co.; all mounted on linen. Original covers, the upper pictorial, the lowers bearing ad's. 26 x 23 cm. Inscription in the upper border of the first page. A very nice copy.

London: John Harris and Son, 1823. Iv, [4], 184 pages. Illustrated with twelve plates each bearing two finely hand-coloured engravings. Contemporary full speckled calf, recently expertly re-backed with decorative gilt bands and a black title label. All edges gilt. 12mo in sixes. Front inner joint expertly repaired; else a very handsome copy, finely coloured. Moon 375(2). First published in 1821.

London: Marcus Ward & Co. Limited, No date [circa 1900]. [16] pages, including wrappers. 6 pages of music and words; 6 full-page illustrations, plus one smaller example. Original pictorial card covers. Oblong: 142 x 172 mm. Owner and donor boxes filled in; else a very good copy.

London.George Allen & Sons. 1909. [1-2] 3-210pp. Plus 2pp adverts to rear. 10 Pryse illustrations. Red boards stamped black. Octavo. First cheap edition - probably a remainder binding. Sunday School prize plate to paste down endpaper. Photographic bookplate to front free endpaper. Some browning and spotting to interior and fore-edges. Corners and head and heel a little bumped. Boards a trifle rubbed; else, a very good copy.

London: T.C. & E.C. Jack Ltd, No date [circa 1907]. [8], 33 pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Original dust-wrapper with mounted pictorial paste-down. 4to. Probably the first edition. Tiny tear in wrapper; else a near fine copy.

London: George Routledge & Sons, No date [circa 1872]. [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. 23.3 x 18.cm. Spine expertly restored; trimmed at all fore-edges, where once bound in a collection; else a very good/fine copy of a scarce title.

London: Faber & Faber, 1937. First edition. Unpaged. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original pictorial paper-covered boards; original pictorial dust-wrapper [not price-clipped]. Dust-wrapper is chipped at head & heel of spine and corners, and has three short tears, but without loss. Else, a very good copy of Harold Jones’s first book, and arguably his finest work.

London.Printed for J. Buckland. 1778. xv, 224pp. Engraved frontispiece. Recent quarter calf over marbled boards with parchment tipped corners. Title label, gilt. 12mo. First edition. Frontispiece with some brown spots not affecting the image; title-page and following two pages browned with one or two light marks; else a very good copy.

London: Relfe and Fletcher, 1842. [2], 42, [1 advert’] pages. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and one other hand-coloured plate; engraved vignette on title and one other engraving within the text. Original cloth decorated in blind and gilt. All edges gilt. 140 x 110 mm. A very good copy. First published in 1836, all early editions are surprisingly scarce.

London: Castell Brothers, No date [circa 1900]. [8] pages, including four fine full-colour chromolithograph illustrations. Original pictorial covers. Oblong: 85 x 112 mm. A fine copy of the charming little book.

London: The Acorn Press, 1947. 63 pages. Illustrated in colours. Original pictorial paper-covered boards; original pictorial dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Touch of wear to the top of the wrapper’s spine and corners; light browning to endpapers; else a fine copy without inscriptions.

Gainsborough: H. and G. Mozley, No date [circa 1800]. Price sixpence. 103 pages. Wood engraved frontispiece and 13 wood engravings within the text. Original Dutch floral boards. 104 x 93 mm. Lacks one leaf of text, being pages 97 & 98; front board has a vertical crack; boards rubbed and worn with some loss of paper to the spine; last leaf; name of Sarah Evans November 1802 to rear pastedown. A very good copy.

London: T. Nelson and Sons Ltd, No date [1919]. [47] leaves, printed on one side only, including colour title and 22 full-page colour plates. Original green cloth with pictorial pastedown to upper panel. 4to. First edition. Gift inscription on front endpaper; light browning of endpapers; else a very good copy.

London: Collin’s Clear-type Press, No date [circa late 1930/40s]. 31 pages. 4 full-page coloured plates. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 655 x 60 mm. Little rubbed, else a very good copy of a very scarce miniature book.

Moscow: A pre-revolutionary Russian version of the nursery classic, printed in Moscow, 1900. [12] pages, including outer wrappers. Illustrated with 4 full-page coloured plates. Original semi-stiff pictorial wrappers. 21 x 14 cm. The copy has been interleaved with tipped-in pages of translation of the text into French.

[London.]: [Thomas Nelson and Sons.], [1856.]. The first edition of this work was issued without a title-page. 3 leaves of music; 1 leaf of lyrics; text finishing on page 24. Eight full-page coloured illustrations in total. Original red ripple-grain pictorial cloth gilt. 4to. There are two issues of the first edition, neither of which were issued with a title-page. This copy is a first issue. See Quayle [6a]. Loosely laid in is an original watercolour by Ballantyne for one of the illustrations. Contemporary inscription [May 1857] on front free endpaper; few light marks; else an excellent copy of the rare first edition, first issue. The watercolour shows signs on the verso of being removed from an album. It was purchased together with other Ballantyne originals at a Bonhams auction in 2001. .