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A GARLAND OF NEW SONGS. Lovely Kitty …
Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, in the Old Flesh Market, No date [1805]. Softcover. 8 pages. Wood-engraving to front cover. Original self-wrappers. 15.4 x 10 cm. Single sheet, folded to form four leaves. Unstitched as issued. Little browned; else very good.
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A GARLAND OF NEW SONGS. The Battle of the Nile. Tom Starboard. The Sailor's Adieu. Tom Bowling. True Courage. The Sea Boy.
Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, No date [circa 1807]. Single sheet folded to form 8 pages. Uncut. Woodcut to title. Approximately 14.5 x 8.5 cm. Dust-soiled; else a good copy. The first song celebrates Nelson's Victory in the Battle of the Nile
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A GARLAND OF NEW SONGS. The Death of Nelson. Lochaber. The Yellow-hair'd Laddie. Whistle, and I'll come to you my Lad. The Yorkshire Concert.
Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, No date [circa 1807]. Single sheet folded to form 8 pages. Uncut. Woodcut to title. Approximately 14.5 x 8.5 cm. Dust-soiled; else a good copy. The first song mourns the death of Nelson's at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
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A GARLAND OF NEW SONGS. Tweed Side. My Nanie, O. Highland Laddie. Up in the Morning Early. Flowers of the Forest.
Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, No date [circa 1805]. Single sheet folded to form 8 pages. Uncut. Woodcut to title. Approximately 14.5 x 8.5 cm. A very good copy.
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A GARLAND OF NEW SONGS. William and Margaret. Mary's Dream. Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch. My Nannie, O. Death or Liberty.
Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, No date [circa 1805]. Single sheet folded to form 8 pages. Uncut. Woodcut to title. Approximately 14.5 x 8.5 cm. Dust-soiled; else a good copy.
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A GIFT TO YOUNG FRIENDS: Or, The Guide to Good. Containing, The Good Man of the Mill; From Whom all Good Things Come; The Lost Purse; The Great Dunce; Self Will; The Careless Boy; Good Boys; And, The way to Save. A New edition, embellished with seven neat coloured engravings.
London: Thomas Dean & Co, No date [circa 1850-55]. 61 pages [page 61 mistakenly numbered 63]. Illustrated with seven hand-coloured engravings. Original green cloth gilt. 17 x 11 cm. Old crease in frontispiece; else a very good copy. Quite scarce: two copies only listed in COPAC.
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A good and scarce collection of 16 chapbooks
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A GOOD BOY'S DIARY By the author of "A Bad Boy's Diary" Copyright. London.
London: George Routledge, 1884. 127 pages. Later plain, untitled cloth. Octavo. First U. K. edition. Inner joints cracked; some staining to half-title; else very good. Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (March 2, 1831 – June 26, 1885) is credited with authoring of one of the first detective novels in the United States. She wrote over 100 dime novels and was one of the most highly paid novelists of her day.
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A GRAMMAR illustrating the Principles and Practice of TRADE AND COMMERCE; for the use of Young Persons intended for business.
London: Richard Phillips, 1810. viii, 216 pages. Folding engraved frontispiece Original sheep, recently and finely re-backed. 140 x 94 mm. Lacks front fre endpaper; ownership name on blank recto of frontispiece; last page a little worn and browned; else a very good copy of a scarce title.
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A GRAMMAR OF HISTORY; Ancient and Modern: With Questions for exercise; By means of which, History may be Practically Taught in Schools. The tenth Edition. Price four shillings, bound.
London.Richard Phillips. 1816. viii, 8-185, [1 'directons' page], 6 ad's]pp. Two folding engraved maps. Original untitled full green sheep. 12mo. Maps have patchy foxing; binding is worn - the spine joints splitting; bookplate removed from front free endpaper; else a good plus copy.
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A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN CHILDRENS BOOK ILLUSTRATION.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy.
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A HISTORY OF ENGLAND, in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son; with additions to the present time.
Edinburgh: John Brown, 1804. Two volumes. vii, 400; [4], 348 pages. Handsomely rebound at some time in full calf gilt with black gilt labels. 179 x 112mm. A very good set of this work first published by John Newbery in 1764. .
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A HISTORY OF PLAYING CARDS AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CARDS AND GAMING. Compiled and Illustrated from the Old Cards and Books in the Collection of the United States Playing Card Company in Cincinnati.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. 468 pages. Illustrated in colour and in black & white. Original red cloth gilt. 4to. First edition. Some light age-toning to paper; else a very good copy. This book is very heavy and will incur extra postal charges; please contact us directly for a shipping quote.
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A HUNDRED TRIPS TO STORYLAND. Illustrated by Hildegard Luprian.
New York. The Macaulay Company, 1930. 327 pages. Illustrated throughout. Hardback in the original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. The author's own copy, inscribed on front free endpaper: 'Mary Graham Bonner her copy 1930.' Inner joints front and back cracked & holding on webbing; wrapper worn, with some loss to top edges, corners and ends of spine. Else a very good and unique copy.
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A KEY TO WALKINGAME'S TUTOR'S ASSISTANT. Containing the solution of the questions, with the references, as they stand in the last edition of that work. To which is added, an appendix, containing some short and useful rules for casting up the value of any sort of goods, &c. Very useful for all persons in trade. The work is designed for the ease of Schoolmasters; and, with the Tutor's Assistant, is recommended as the best Compendium hitherto published, for the Use of Schools, of the private Persons. By T. Hewitt, Teacher of Mathematics.
London: J. Scatcherd, 1801. Iv, 240 pages. Original full sheep. 12mo. First edition. Substantial loss of leather to spine; else a very clean copy.
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A KIND LITTLE KITTEN.
London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, No date [circa 1920]. [72] pages, including 12 coloured plates. Original paper-covered boards with a mounted pictorial pastedown to the upper board. 11.8 x 9.7 cm. Some occasional patchy foxing; head of spine a touch worn; else very good.
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A LITTLE MONKEY.
London: Ernest Nister, No date [circa 1900]. A die-cut shaped book in the form of a monkey. [8] pages. With four coloured illustrations. Maximum height: 10.8 cm. A very good copy.
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A MOTHER’S CARE REWARDED; in the correction of those defects, most general in Young People, during their education.
London: William Darton, No date [1824]. 108 [1 engraved trade plate] pages. Illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece and two other full-page engraved plates. Original quarter red roan gilt. 148 x 93mm. First edition. Some leather lost from heel of spine; else a very good copy. Darton H1502(1).
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A NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS, BEASTS, & FISHES. Embellished with Beautiful Engravings.
London: Ja.s Imray, No date [circa 1800]. 20 Featherstone St, City Road. Price Sixpence. 52 pages. Illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece, engraved title with vignette of a parrot, and 14 wood-engravings in the text. Original marbled wrappers. 118 x 82 mm. Generally rather worn – particularly so the wrapper, the lower have some loss of marbled paper; lacks rear endpaper; ownership names to endpapers; also the book plate of Marjorie Moon; else a good copy of a rare title. Very little is known of Jas. Imray and all his books are scarce.
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A NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS. Thirty-Two engravings on wood.
Alnwick: W. Davison, No date [circa 1815/20]. 36 pages. Original wrappers with a small wood-engraved vignette to the upper cover, and a large wood-engraving to the lower. 138 x 88mm. A very good copy. One of seven separately issued titles forming a ‘natural history.’
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