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.

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.

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, No date [1921]. [32] pages mounted on thick card, including. 12 coloured illustrations. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper=covered boards. 375 x 240 mm. First edition. The occasional spot of light foxing; little wear to board edges and corners; else a very good copy.

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: 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.

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.

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.

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).

London: J. Wallis… J. Wallis, Jun… J. Harris, 1806. Being volume I of The Scientific Library; or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature.; comprising Astronomy Geography Mythology, Ancient History, Modern History, and Chronology. In six volumes. [6], 136 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Series titlepage and individual titlepage. Original quarter red roan gilt over plain paper-covered boards. 130 x 87 mm. Frontispiece offset onto series title; else a very good, clean copy.

London: J. Wallis, 1801. 64 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original paper-covered boards with a paper label to the upper panel. 97 x 62 mm. Boards a little rubbed and worn, with a small loss of paper to the head and heel of the spine. Else a very good copy. This title was one of eleven volumes

London: J. Wallis, 1801. 64 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original paper-covered boards with a paper label to the upper panel. 97 x 62 mm. Small loss of paper to the head and heel of the spine; else a very good copy. This title was one of eleven volumes

London: J. Wallis… J. Wallis, Jun… J. Harris, 1806. Being volume III of The Scientific Library; or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature.; comprising Astronomy Geography Mythology, Ancient History, Modern History, and Chronology. In six volumes. [8], 168 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Series titlepage and individual titlepage. Original quarter red roan gilt over plain paper-covered boards. 130 x 87 mm. Frontispiece offset onto series title; head & heel of spine worn with small loss of leather; else a very good, clean copy.