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A CAT BOOK. Portraits by H. Officer Smith. Characteristics by E.V. Lucas.
London: Grant Richards, 1900. The Dumpy Book For Children. No VI. [6] 121, [2 ad’s] pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original two-tone green striped cloth. 13 x 8.2 cm. First edition. A very good copy. Necker 1239.
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A CAT FROM PERSIA.
London: Henry Frowde, No date [1910]. [16] pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the card covers as issued. [Coloured illustrations by William Foster.]. Original pictorial boards. 320 x 240 mm. Short split at base of spine [2 cm]; else a very good copy.
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A CHILD’S DAY. A Book of Rhymes by Walter De la Mare to pictures by Carine and Will Cadby.
London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1912. 56, [3] pages. Illustrated with 24 mounted black & white reproductions of photographs. Original cloth-backed decorative boards with a mounted pastedown. 250 x 195 mm. First edition. Old corner crease-mark to one plate; covers a little soiled; else a very good copy of a scarce book. See White, Mundane to the Magical, 366.
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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES. Cramina non prius audita De Ludis Et Hortis virginibus puerisque.
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1922. Alternate English and Latin text, the Latin translations by T. R. Glover. Xxi, [4], 83, 83 pages. Portrait frontispiece. Original blue cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition thus. Some light spotting, little stronger on endpapers; spine mellowed; else very good.
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A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. xiv, 136[140], [1 ad’] pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original red cloth with printed label to spine, and the pictorial gilt covers of the trade edition bound in at front and rear. Top edge gilt. Octavo. First edition. One of a limited edition of 150 copies on hand-made paper. Paper label on spine a little rubbed and worn [there is a spare copy tipped in at the rear]; slight rubbing to edges and spine ends; late ownership inscription on first free endpaper; else an excellent copy of the first illustrated edition of this classic.
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A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. 128 pages. Illustrated with a pictorial title-page, twelve full-page coloured plates, and numerous line drawings. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. Quarto: 225 x 168 mm. First Sowerby Edition. Spine slightly faded, else an excellent copy.
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A CHILD'S MEMORIAL; or A New Token for Children: Containing an Account of the early piety, and happy death of Miss Dinah Doudney of Portsea, aged nine years. Delivered to a congregation of children in Orange-Street Chapel, on New Year's Day, 1805. Third Edition. To which is added an account of Miss Sarah Barrow, who was burnt to death April the 4th, 1805. By John Griffin.
Portsea: Printed and Sold by J,. Horsey. Sold also by Booksellers in Portsea and Portsmouth; and by T. Williams, Stationer's-Court. London, 1805. 58 pages. Original printed buff wrappers. 13.7 x 8.7 cm. Some corners turned; spine expertly repaired; occasional minor staining; else a good copy. The British Library hold copies of the fourth and seventh edition.
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A CHILD’S PRIMER OF NATURAL HISTORY. By Oliver Herford with Pictures by the Author.
London: John Lane, 1900. [6], 95 pages. Original pictorial cloth. 217 x 217 mm. First edition. Some spotting on front endpapers; else A very good copy.
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A CHILDREN’S SUMMER Eleven etchings on steel by E. V. B. Illustrated in Prose and Rhyme by M. L. B. and W. M. C.
London: Addey and Co, 1853. [31] pages. 9 full-page etchings and two smaller illustrations within pages of text, all finely hand-coloured by Eleanor Vere Boyle. Original leather-backed brown cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Oblong folio. First edition. Slight rubbing to spine; some spotting throughout as is usual with this book; short marginal tear to one leaf of text; lower corners bumped; else a very good copy of one of the finest children’s books of the nineteenth century. Hand-coloured copies are rare. The prose contribution is by the illustrator's cousin, Mary Boyle, and the verse by W. M. Call. A Children's Summer was much praised by John Ruskin, Thomas Landseer, Tom Taylor, and Francis Turner Palgrave.
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A CHILDREN’S SUMMER. Eleven etchings on steel by E. V. B. Illustrated in prose and rhyme by M. L. B. [Mary Louisa Boyle] and W. M. C. [Wathen Mark Wilks Call].
London: Addey and Co, 1853. [. 15] leaves of text. Illustrated with 8 full-page etchings and two vignettes. Original half calf over blue ribbed cloth gilt. Oblong: 285 x 371 mm. First edition. Presentation copy from E.V.B. to Wathen Mark Wilks Call, inscribed on title-page: ‘W. M. W. Call from EVB with her best Christmas good wishes! Dec 23nd 1852.’ There are some pencil annotations in pencil in Call’s hand, mostly the addition of his initials to verses he has authored. Some foxing, as is common with this title; front endpaper worn and with some loss; front board rubbed and slightly damped; else a very good copy of an important presentation copy. A Children’s Summer was E.V.B.’s second book.
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A collection of 14 Banbury Penny chapbooks contained in a morocco-backed folding box.
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A COLLECTION OF BIRDS & RIDDLES. By Miss Polly & Master Tommy.
York: James Kendrew, Printer, Colliergate, No date [circa 1830]. 16 pages, including wrappers. Illustrated with fifteen wood-engravings. Original yellow printed wrapper. 99 x 67 mm. The illustrated text extends to the lower wrapper. A very good copy.
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A COLLECTION OF PRETTY POEMS FOR THE AMUSEMENT OF CHILDREN THREE FOOT HIGH. By Tommy Tagg, Esq. The Fifty-ninth edition, Adorned with above sixty cuts.
London: Printed for the Booksellers of Europe, Asia, Africa and America, and sold at the Bible and Sun in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1765. Original Dutch floral patterned paper-covered boards. Contained in a modern folding cloth box. Very worn, with 16 pages in facsimile taken from another printing, the paging of which does not always match. Roscoe J346(6). This edition not traced by Roscoe. This title is thought to have been first published by John Newbery in 1756. Clearly the edition claims are not realistic.
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A Compendious History of England, from The Invasion by the Romans, to The Present Time. Adorned with a Map of Great Britain and Ireland, Colour'd; and embellished with Thirty-one Cuts of all the Kings and Queens Who have reign'd since the Conquest: Drawn chiefly From their Statues at the Royal Exchange.
London: Printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1758. [Price bound Two Shillings]. First Newbery edition. iv, [8], viii, 9-266, [10, publisher's catalogue] pages. Folding engraved map of the British Isles by Emanuel Bowen. With thirty-one magnificent wood-engraved figures of sovereigns, most signed JB. Recent binding of quarter calf gilt over marbled boards. 140 x 89 mm. First edition. Some browning at foot of title-page; armorial bookplate of Sir Walter Blount to front pastedown; the map has been strengthened at two folds from the blank verso; else a very good, clean copy. See Roscoe J76(1).
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A Continuation of the Adventures of DAME TROT and HER COMICAL CAT.
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A CROWN OF FLOWERS. Illustrated by Mary Parry.
Market Drayton: Tern Press, 1997. Number 129 of an edition of 150 copies. The typeface is Eusebious, the paper is Lana, with drawings and watercolours by Mary Parry. Signed by both Mary and Nicholas Parry. A fine copy of this floral alphabet with the illustrations beautifully coloured as issued.
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A CURIOUS HIEROGLYPHICK BIBLE; or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the Amusement of Youth: designed chiefly to familiarize tender Age, in a pleasing and diverting Manner, with early Ideas of the Holy Scriptures. To which are subjoined, a short Account of the Lives of the Evangelists, and other Pieces, illustrated with Cuts. The Thirteenth Edition.
London: Robert Bassam, 1794. [ Price One Shilling bound.]. Wood-engraved frontispiece, (6), 136pp. Illustrated throughout with wood-engravings. Later 19th century full plain black sheep. 12mo. Head of spine splitting, else a very good copy.
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A CURIOUS HIEROGLYPHICK BIBLE; or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth: designed chiefly to familiarize tender Age, in a pleasing and diverting Manner, with early Ideas of the Holy Scriptures. To which are subjoined, a short Account of the Lives of the Evangelists, and other Pieces, illustrated with Cuts. The Thirteenth Edition.
London: Robert Bassam, 1796. Wood-engraved frontispiece, [6], 136 pages. Illustrated throughout with wood-engravings. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 12mo. Spine re-backed; couple of small blank corners missing; else a very good copy.
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A DESCRIPTION OF A SET OF ANCIENT HISTORY, contained in a set of easy lessons. In two parts.
London: Printed and sold by john Marshall, No. 4 Aldermary Church-yard, Bow Lane, Cheapside, No date [between 1795 and 1800]. Part I: 120 pages. Part II: title and 32 engraved plates, all printed on one side of the leaves only. Original full, sometime re-backed. Closed tears in two plates (no loss); the blank backs of the first twenty-four plates have been used by the owner for notes written in copperplate; binding rubbed and worn; endpapers replaced; else a very good set
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A DESCRIPTION OF ABOVE THREE HUNDRED ANIMALS, viz. Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and Insects. With a particular Account of the Manner of Catching Whales in Greenland. Extracted from the best authors, and adapted to the use of all capacities. Illustrated with copper-plates: Whereon is curiously Engraven every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent, and Insect, described in the whole book.
Glasgow: J. & M. Robertson, 1794. Engraved frontispiece. 8; 210 pages, as numbered, but the book actually has 112 pages of letterpress text, and 98 plates which are numbered as leaves and included in the pagination. Complete with all the engraved plates, including the folding plate of the ‘Greenland Whale Fishery.’ Bound in recent quarter calf gilt over marbled boards. 198 x 122 mm. First published in 1730, this copy is probably about the twelfth edition. Untrimmed; with many of the plates being of significantly smaller size than the letterpress leaves. Some corners turned; the occasional small mark; else a very good copy. .
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