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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 GEOGRAPHICAL PRESENT; Being Descriptions of the Principal countries of the World. By Mary Anne Venning. With Representations of the various Inhabitants in their respective Costumes, beautifully coloured. Second edition.
London: Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1818. 144 pages. Illustrated with 60 hand-coloured full-page engravings. Original quarter sheep gilt over marbled boards. 158 x 100 mm. The head & heel of the spine has been repaired at some time, but is now worn again and cracking; boards rubbed and worn at corners; inscribed at head of title: ‘Presented to Miss Anne Rich by Lady Rich July 1819.’ Text clean, though with the occasional mark and old crease. A good plus copy. First published in 1817. See Darton G975(2)
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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 [between 1843 and 1847]. 63 pages Illustrated with seven hand-coloured engravings. Original green cloth gilt. 170 x 110mm. Old crease in frontispiece; else a very good copy. Quite scarce: two copies only listed in COPAC.
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A GIFT TO YOUNG FRIENDS: Or, The Guide to Good In words of one syllable. Containing, The Good Man of the Mill; A Sad Tale; From Whom all Good Things Come; The Lost Purse; Rose and her Bird; Self-Will; The Great Dunce; Self Will; The Careless Boy; Good Boys; And, The way to Save. Third edition. Embellished with seven neat coloured engravings.
London: Thomas Dean & Co, No date [no later than 1838]. 60 pages Illustrated with seven hand-coloured engravings. Original green cloth gilt. 156 x 124mm. Gift inscription on endpaper; else a very good copy. Quite scarce: two copies only listed in COPAC.
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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 HORSE BOOK.
London: Grant Richards, 1901. 95 pages. 24 colour plates. Original striped green cloth. 128 x 81 mm. First edition. Spine a little darkened, and rubbed slightly at head and heel; name on front free endpaper; else a very good, clean copy.
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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 KNOWLEDGE; or, Things in Common Use. Simply and shortly explained. By a Mother, Author of “Always Happy;” “Claudine,” “True Stories from Ancient History,” &c.
London: J. Harris, 1817. Sixth edition. viii, 172 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original quarter red road, gilt over marbled boards. 147 x 96 mm. Frontispiece lightly offsetting to title; pages 125-128 mis-bound out of order; stamp of Launceston Public Library to front and rear endpapers; else a very good copy. Moon 78(6). First published in 1814. Mrs. Budden describes her book as ‘a concise and simple elucidation of the several articles of daily use and daily consumption’. Mrs Moon adds, ‘The information is conveyed in conversations between children and an encyclopaedic mother.’
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A KEY TO KNOWLEDGE; or, Things in Common use. Simply and shortly explained: in a series of dialogues. Written by a mother, author of "Always Happy. - First Book for Children." &c. &c.
London: J. Harris, 1814. viii, 172 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Bound in recent quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards. 139 x 93 mm. Name on blank recto of frontispiece; bookplate; else a very good copy of a work that is quite scarce in first edition form. By 1841 it had reached its 11th edition. Moon 77. John Harris's Books for Youth.
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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 MONTH IN LONDON; or, some of its modern wonders described.
London: Harvey and Darton, 1832. 182, [4 ad’s] pages. Engraved frontispiece; vignette on additional engraved title, and four other full-page engravings. Original quarter roan over cloth. 182 x 112 mm. First edition. Book plate of Eric Quayle to endpaper; spine a little weak at head; else a very good, clean 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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