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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Warren, R. I: Printed by S. Randall, 1821. 32 pages. Original lain blue paper wrappers. 137 x 112 mm. Covers worn with some loss of paper; bookplate of John Lawson. A very good copy of a scarce Rhode Island printing.

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.

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.

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.

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; else a very good set

London: Houlston and Son, 1836. 35,[1 blank] pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title, and five full-page wood-engravings. Original printed buff wrappers. 14.2 x 9.2 cm. Just splitting at heel of spine; acquisition number at foot of title; else a very good copy.

London: Bancroft & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, No date [circa 1950]. [8] pages of full-colour parts to cut out; plus instructions and a six page history of tractions engines. Original pictorial card covers. Oblong: 26 x 33 cm. A very good copy with all parts complete.

1909. Manuscript title illustrated in pen & ink and watercolour, presentation inscription on verso; 4 other full-page original illustrations of pen & ink and watercolour; 8 pages of printed text illustrated in the margins with original pen & ink vignettes. Original printed covers with manuscript note at foot of upper cover: ‘In 20 editions of one copy each.’ On the blank verso of the upper cover is written ‘3rd Edition.’ Presentation copy inscribed: ‘To G. C. Pease with the Author’s Artist's Best Love New Year 1910.’ Few old minor creases, else a very good copy of a finely illustrated, privately published, fairy tale. Hope Begbie, a poet, published a slim collection entitled ‘Verses’ in 1917.

London: Blackie & Son Limited, No date [circa 1950]. Twenty-four colour plates. Original decorative paper-covered boards with mounted pastedown. Original price-clipped dust-wrapper. Head and heel of spine a little bumped; wrapper chipped at corner and head & heel of spine; inscription for 1953 on endpaper; else a very good copy.