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A NEW ROMAN HISTORY, For the Foundation of Rome to the end of the Common-wealth. Embellished with Copper-Plate CUTS. Designed for the use of Young Ladies and Gentlemen.
London: F. Newbery, 1770. [2], iv, ii, 136 pages. Engraved frontispiece and five other engraved plates. Original green vellum-backed boards with paper label to the spine. 141 x 90 mm. First edition. Two leaves with small loss where carelessly opened, resulting in the loss of a couple of letters; name on front paste-down and a gift inscription on a free endpaper; paper-covered boards a little rubbed; else very good. Roscoe J263(1).
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A NEW TREATISE ON THE USE OF GLOBES; or a Philosophical View of the Earth and Heavens: An Account of the figure, magnitude, and motion of the earth. Designed for the instruction of youth. The seventh edition, corrected and improved.
London.Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. 1824. xxiii, [1], 359, [1]pp. catalogue. Followed by six folding plates bound at the rear. Original full tree calf, gilt; but with no title label. 12mo. Some off-setting from leather to front endpaper and title - similarly at rear; binding a little worn at head and heel; else a very good copy. Bears the ownership inscription on front fixed endpaper: 'Misses M. & D. Inglis - 23d Novr. 1826.'
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A NURSERY RHYME
[London.]: No imprint, Not date [circa 1940]. A board book of 8 stout pages, including covers. Illustrating in colour throughout the nursery rhyme 'Monday's Child.' Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong: 14.5 x 17.5 cm. A fine copy.
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A PEEP AT THE ESQUIMAUX; or, Scenes on the Ice. To which is annexed, A Polar Pastoral. With forty coloured plates, from original designs. By a Lady. Second edition.
London: H. R. Thomas, 1825. viii, [4], 5 -58, [4 cat'] pages. Engravings hand-coloured throughout, as issued. Contemporary half calf, gilt. Octavo. Pages 17/18 has a closed tear, some soiling and marking throughout; small tear at the edge of one leaf; else a good plus copy of a work that is scarce in either first or second edition. The wood engravings, which depict Esquimaux life and dress, implements used in everyday, together with examples of Arctic fauna, are derived from the illustrations by Captain George Francis Lyon, published in Sir William Edward Parry's 'Journal Of A Second Voyage For The Discovery of A North-West Passage, London, 1824. Osborne Page 75. The first edition was published in the same year as the second edition.
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A PEEP AT THE FAIR.
Derby: Thomas Richardson, No date [circa 1830]. 12 pages., including wrappers. Illustrated with twenty-four woodcuts, including a cut to both upper and lower wraps. 85 x 54 mm. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy. This text begins and ends on the wrappers Copac records only one copy in the Opie collection.
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A PICTURE-BOOK Without Pictures. By Hans Christian Andersen. From the German translation of De La Motte Fouque by Meta Taylor.
London: David Bogue, 1847. v, [1], 88 pages. Original decorative cloth. Octavo. First English edition. Very slight bumping to corners and head & heel of spine; slight browning of title with a few very small marks; else a handsome copy. This ttile is extremely difficult to find in fine condition in its original binding. 'The moon describes to a painter thirty picturesque scenes, 'observed in her silent passage across the sky.' 'Sketch what I relate to you,' said the moon.. and you will have a pretty picture-book.' Osborne 858.
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A PILGRIMAGE IN FAIRYLAND Told by a Pilgrim There. Fairy Painter Jeannie McConnell.
London.Privately Printed at The Chiswick press. 1920. [iv], [2], 3-39pp. Illustrated with 10 full-page colour plates, some with multiple images. Original cloth-backed printed grey boards. First edition. Some light spotting; boards a trifle browned; else a very good copy of the scarce first edition.
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A POCKET ENCYCLOPEDIA; or, library of general knowledge: being a dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature. Compiled from the best authorities by Edward-Augustus Kendall. In six volumes.
London: W. Peacock… J. Wallis…. J. Harris, 1802. Six volumes bound as three. Engraved frontispiece to volume I. Bound in full calf recently handsomely re-backed with blind and gilt decoration and twin labels. A very nice set. Moon 444(1).
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A PRESENT FOR A LITTLE BOY.
London: Darton and Harvey, 1802. Price One Shilling. [52] pages. Title-page vignette and 5 full-page engravings, plus 19 engravings in the text. Original marbled wrappers. 155 x 98 mm. A few closed marginal tears; covers worn; little marked and dust-soiled; some corner creases; else a very good copy of one of Darton’s finest productions. First published in 1798. Darton G 226(4). .
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A PRESENT FOR CHILDREN. Price One Halfpenny.
York: Richard Burdekin, No date [circa 1830]. 12 pages. including self-wrappers. 84 x 56 mm. Illustrated with twelve woodcuts. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy. Richard Burdekin’s chapbooks are rarely found. We have been able to trace only a single copy of this title, in the Pierpont Morgan Library. See Alderson, Be Merry and Wise, item 284.
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A PRESENT FOR INFANTS; or, Pictures for the Nursery.
Darton, Harvey, and Darton. Price 1s. plain; or 1s. 6d, 1819. 24pp. 12 being title and text; verso of title a blank; a further 11 bearing 22 hand-coloured engravings. Original printed pink wrappers. First edition. Corners a little turned; spine expertly repaired; but a very good copy of a charming and scarce title. Inscribed on front fixed endpaper: ‘Henry Hartly Allan May 18th 1822 A present from Mrs Slaney.’ First published in 1810 without text and with smaller illustrations. See Osborne for a 1814 reprint of this earlier format. Darton G779(3).
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A PRESENT FOR THE YOUNG CURIOUS.
London: Harvey and Darton, No date [circa 1820's- 30's?]. 72 pages. Illustrated with 24 engraved plates, dated 1815, of which two are full-page, the remainder bearing two images per page. Contemporary cloth gilt. 14.5 x 9.5 cm. Gift and ownerships inscriptions and stamps on endpapers; erased pencilled date of 1824 at foot of title; one signature a little proud; paper label with manuscript title on upper board; else a very good copy. Darton G780., but not that edition, his example having a longer title. The first edition was issued in 1824, the plates having been acquired from the publisher Nathaniel Hailes in whose 2nd edition of John Rippingham's Natural history according the Linnaean system they had previously appeared.
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A REAL BALATON STORY. Etchings by Z. Poharnok and L. Farkas. English by Pal Vajda.
1937. [14] leaves, each with a mounted hand-coloured etched leaf, the twelve that form the fairy tale, each signed in pencil by both of the author/illustrators. No imprint or date, but believed to issued by George Vajna & Cie., of Budapest, Hungary, circa 1937. Original cloth with string ties secured with decorative stone or ceramic piece. A small handcoloured title etching is mounted on the front panel. 19.8 x 17 cm. Some light browning to the balnk verso of one leaf and to blank borders of another; else an excellent copy of this charming children’s fairy tale set around Lake Balaton in Hungary.
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A RHINOCEROS. Rag Book Knockabout Toys. Bo-peep Series.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [in print between 1909-1920]. Artist Evelyn Gladys Hall. Cloth sheet printed in colours, designed to cut out and stuff to make a soft toy Sheet size; 180 x 235 mm. Slight water-staining to the left side of the sheet; else very good. See Cope page 130.
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A SCUTTLE OF COALS in Rhymes & Pictures. Price sixpence, plain, one shilling, coloured.
London: Griffin and Farran, No date [circa 1860.]. [12] leaves each printed on one side only, and bearing a hand-coloured engraving with text. The illustrations are by William Newman. Original pictorial wrappers. Oblong: 137 x 195 mm. Brown spots to lower wrapper which bears ad’s for Griffin and Farran; else a very good, clean copy.
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A SELECTION OF FABLES from Florian and other Authors. Translated and Versified by Theresa Tidy. To which are added A few Scraps From A Portfolio.
London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1837. 49, [1 blank], [2 ad’s] pages. Original semi-stiff cloth gilt. 138 x 92 mm. First edition. A fine copy. Scarce.
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A SEQUEL TO THE COMIC ADVENTURES OF OLD MOTHER HUBBARD AND HER DOG. By another hand.
London: J. Harris, 1807. 14 hand-coloured engraved unnumbered leaves, including title and dedication, all printed upon one side of the paper only. Bound in relatively recent cloth-backed boards with label to the spine.. A very good copy of this sequel to Sarah Martin’s original tale and her continuation by the unknown ‘W.F.’ Moon 562(2). A very nice copy of this sequel first published in 1806.
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A set of sixteen engraved alphabet and number cards.
1830. A set of sixteen engraved alphabet and number cards. No imprint or date, but probably London, circa 1830. Comprising thirteen cards, each bearing two letters of the alphabet, a hand-coloured engraving and a single word title; plus three similar cards bearing the numbers 0 - 9. Each card measures 80 x 45 mm. All contained in a modern morocco-backed folding box. The cards are a little grubby and worn, but charming and rare.
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A SHORT HISTORY OF BIRDS AND BEASTS, For the Amusement and Instruction of Children. Adorned with Cuts.
Wellington, Salop: F. Houlston and Son. Price One penny. 24 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated with a hand-coloured pastedown frontispiece and 12 other hand-coloured woodcuts and some tailpieces, as issued. Original wrappers. 99 x 65 mm. All edges gilt. Resewn and expertly re-backed at some time; else an excellent ‘de-luxe’ copy of this chapbook issued with the cuts coloured by hand and the edges gilded.
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A Short History of BIRDS & BEASTS, for the Amusement and Instruction of Children. Adorned with Cuts. Price One Penny.
Wellington, Salop: F. Houlston and Son, No date [circa 1830]. 24 pages, including outer wrappers. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and 12 other wood-engravings. Original pastedown wrappers. 10.5 x 6.5 cm. A fine copy of this chapbook..
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