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TINY TOTS ABC. Cloth lined. Untearable.
London: Frederick Warne & Co, No date [circa 1910]. [16] pages, the first and last being pasted to the covers as issued. Illustrated with four pages in full colour; the remainder in red & black & white. Original full colour pictorial card covers. 20 x 232 mm. One leaf has a short, closed tear; staples rusting; some occasional light spotting; else a very good copy.
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TIP TOP GO FLYING.
London: Bancroft & Co, 1964. Comprising 6 full colour pop-ups. Original cloth-backed pictorial covers. First edition. A fine copy, complete with all pieces. Rarely found in such excellent condition. £250. 00.
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TIT TINY AND TITTENS. Rhymes by A.L.O.E. Oil Colour Picture Books for the Nursery.
London & Edinburgh: T. Nelson & Sons, No date [circa 1865]. [6] leaves, printed on one side only, of text, and six full-page coloured illustrations. Original embossed wrappers with a circular pictorial pastedown and another oblong pastedown bearing the title. 270 x 227 mm. Covers a little creased and worn, but a very good copy of an early - perhaps the first edition – of this many times reprinted title. Charlotte Maria Tucker wrote under the pseudonym of A.L.O.E which stood for, ‘A Lady of England.’
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TITTUMS & FIDO.
London: George Routledge & Sons, No date [inscribed on front cover 1871]. 6 leaves of text, the first and last being pastedowns to the wrappers, each printed on one side only, plus 6 full-page colour illustrations printed by Kronheim and Co. Original printed colour wrappers. 26.5 x22.8 cm. Spine restored; slightly trimmed where dis-bound from a collection of toy-books; some light marking and browning; else a very good copy of an uncommon title, being an adaptation of The Faithless Parrot [1868] by Charles Henry Bennett. Necker 147.
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TOAD'S CASTLE
Melbourne: London: Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, 1951. Hardcover. 71 pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original pictorial boards; original dust-wrapper. First edition. One tear to rear panel of wrapper; some wear to spine fow wrapper; else a very good copy.
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TODDLES AND TIDDLES. Dean’s 6d Patent Rag Book Series 1. Number 233.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [191922-1929]. 10 pages. Illustrate in colour by Coreen Linda Marsh. 133 x 112 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive with the original paper advert’ slip still loosely laid in. See Cope, page 98.
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TODDLES. Dean’s 1/6 Patent Rag Books. Number 134’
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co. Ltd, No date, but between 1911 & 1913. 32 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour by Helen Grace C. Marsh Lambert. 140 x 115 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive with the original brochure loosely laid in. See Cope. Page 79.
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TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT by F. E. Weatherley. Illustrated by M. Ellen Edwards & John C. Staple.
London: Hildesheimer and Faulkner, No date [1880s]. 64 pages. Illustrated throughout with chromolithographs. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covers boards. 238 x 185 mm. Small bookplate. A very fresh, clean copy.
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TOM GORDON: or, Little Bessie's Prayer.
Glasgow: John S. Marr & Sons, 1885. Hardcover. 128 pages. Colour frontispiece. Original decorative cloth gilt. First edition. Small rub on endpaper; else a very good copy.
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TOM THE PIPER’S SON. Price One Halfpenny.
York: R. Burdekin, No date [circa 1820’s]. 16 pages, including self-wrappers. 85 x 58 mm. Illustrated with sixteen woodcuts. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy. Richard Burdekin’s chapbooks are rarely found. We have been able to trace only a single copy of this title, in the Pierpont Morgan Library.
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TOM THE PIPER’S SON. With all the fun That he had done And how at last he went to France to teach great Bonaparte to dance.
London: J. E. Evans, No date [circa 1820]. 16 pages, including self-wrappers. Illustrated with 16 woodcuts. Expert repair to spine; else in excellent condition. Rare, Worldcat shows 1 copy only. The British Libray, together with the Opies, date this as 1803, but we feel it may well be a little later.
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TOM THUMB.
London: F. Warne & Co, Bedford Street., Covent Garden, No date [circa 1880]. [8] leaves, including wrappers, printed on one side only, and each bearing a coloured wood-engraving with verses beneath. 152 x 107 mm. A very good copy.
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TOM THUMB.
London:-: Printed and Published by W.S. Johnson 60, St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross, No date [circa 1850]. A panoramic pull-out book of 12 panels, of which, four bear text and the remaining 8, hand-coloured engravings; folding into original wrappers; the upper panel title and bearing an engraving of Tom Thumb. Extended: 108 x 12 cm. Folded: 12 x 10 cm. Worn and chipped and creased, with one joint splitting, but a rare survival. Contained in a modern cloth and paper case. The Hockliffe project website has another title in the same series: Old Mother Goose.
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TOM THUMB.
London: Printed & Published by G. Ingram. 41, Old Street, St. Luke, No date [circa 1850]. [8] pages. Illustrated with rather crude wood-engravings. Original pictorial wrappers with an uppercase alphabet to the lower panel. 130 x 95 mm. Edges frayed and worn, but without loss to the text; spine repaired; else a very good copy of a scarce publication. ]
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TOM THUMB. Dean's Pickaninny Series 2.
London: Dean & Son Ltd, No date [circa 1890-1900]. [8] pages, including outer wrappers. Illustrated in full colour on covers and centrefold; the others pages illustrated on line. 15.2 x 9 cm. An excellent copy of an ephemeral little book. Very scarce.
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TOM THUMB The Diverting History of his Life Decorated by Enid Marx. A Bantam Picture Book No. 32.
London: Transatlantic Arts Ltd, No date [1944/46]. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original wrappers. 13.2 x 9.5 cm. Light rusting of staples, else a fine copy
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TOM THUMB’S FOLIO; or, A New Penny Play-thing, for Little Giants: to which is prefixed, an Abstract of the Life of Mr. Thumb, and an Historical Account of the Wonderful Deeds he Performed.
York: J. Kendrew. 32 pages, including pastedown wrappers. Illustrated throughout with six woodcuts and a tailpiece. Original printed wrappers with cuts to both upper and lower panels 9.5 x 6.5 cm. Spine expertly repaired. A very nice copy. Davis 53.
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TOM THUMB’S FOLIO; or, a New Penny Plaything, for Little Giants: to which is prefixed, an abstract of the Life of Mr. Thumb, and an historical account of the Wonderful Deeds he Performed.
York: J. Kendrew, No date [circa 1830]. 32 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the printed wrappers as issued. Illustrated with a woodcut frontispiece, and 6 woodcuts in the text. 102 x 65 mm. Wrappers a little dust-soiled, else a very good copy of this chapbook.
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TOM THUMB'S PLAY BOOK to teach children their letters, by a New and Pleasant Method. Price Two pence.
Alnwick: Stereotyped and Printed by W. Davison, No date [circa 1840's]. 36 pages including outer paste-down wrappers. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts, some by Thomas Bewick. Original wrappers with a woodcut of a dog to the upper wrapper. 138 x 91 mm. A fine copy.
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TOM THUMB’S PLAY-BOOK, to teach children their letters as soon as they can speak. Or, Easy Lessons for little children and beginners. Being a new and pleasant Method to allure little ones into the first Principles of Learning.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed and sold by J. Marshall. Sold by the principal Booksellers in Town and Country, 1811. 48 pages. Woodcut of a house on page 2; 24 woodcuts of animals, after Jn John Bewick, illustrating the alphabet. Original o near contemporary plain buff wrappers. 98 x 86 mm. Wrapper and first four leaves turned and a little frayed to the top 2 cm; paper a little browned; else a very good copy of a rare chapbook.
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