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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 SEASIDE HOLIDAY. Poems by Fred. E. Weatherly. Illustrated by G> G. Kilburne, H. M. Bennett, W. Bothams &c. &c.
London: Hildersheimer & Faulkner, No date [circa 1900]. [12] pages. With 5 full-page illustrations. Original pictorial card wrappers. Oblong: 61 x 84 mm. A very nice copy of this miniature gift book.
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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. 105 x 65 mm. A fine copy of this chapbook..
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A SKETCH OF MY FRIEND'S FAMILY. Intended to suggest some practical hints on Religion and Domestic Matters.
London: J. Hatchard... J. Conder... Darton and Harvey, 1817. v, 150, [1 Errata] pages. Engraved frontispiece of a mother teaching her child to read the bible. Recent half calf over marbled boards; red gilt label to spine. 12mo. First edition. Some light browning and spotting; else a very good copy. The B.L. has the second edition, which was issued in 1818, but the first edition is quite scarce. "Nor may it be pressing the vain expectations of an author, beyond the limits of possibility, if the writer indulges the thought, that whilst the mother listens to the simple tale, primarily intended for the daughter's eye, perhaps she may not disdain to glean some practical hint from this humble legend, framed to recommend the nameless charms of female excellence." [From the Preface.]
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A SOLDIER’S FRIEND. Written by Juliana Horatia Ewing. Depicted by R. Andre [William Roger Snow].
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, No date [1884]. 32 pages. Illustrated in colour chromolithography throughout. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong: 155 x 180mm. Expertly re-backed; edges of boards rubbed; inscription on endpaper; else a very good copy.
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A STRANGER AT GREEN KNOWE. Illustrated by Peter Boston.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. 158 pages. Original cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. No dust-wrapper. Signed in biro by Lucy Boston on the half-title. A very good, clean copy.
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A SUMMER HOLIDAY.
London: Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co, No date [circa 1900]. [8] leaves, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated in full colour and in sepia. Original full-colour wrappers; the top cut in a dome shape to echo the domed roof of the railway station depicted on the front and rear wrappers. Approx: 250 x 310 mm. A very good copy.
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A Sweet Little Dear. Written by Juliana Horatia Ewing. Depicted by R. Andre [William Roger Snow].
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, No date [circa 1883-88]. 32 pages. Illustrated in colour chromolithography throughout. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong: 155 x 180mm. Spine expertly re-backed; else a very good copy.
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A SYNOPSIS OF MODERN HISTORY. By the Rev. Thomas Smith.
London: J. Wallis… J. Wallis, Jun… J. Harris, 1806. Being volume V 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], 138, [1] 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 of spine worn with small loss of leather; notes and name on endpapers; else a very good, clean copy.
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A TOUR THROUGH ASIA MINOR AND THE GREEK ISLANDS. With an account of the inhabitants, natural productions, and curiosities. For the Instruction and Amusement of Youth. By C. Wilkinson.
London: Harvey and Darton, 1806. [viii], 424 pages. Illustrated with a folding map and 3 other folding plates. Original half roan. 182 x 112 mm. First edition. One folding plate has a short tear and is a little frayed at the fore-edge; else a very handsome copy. Darton G1047. An uncommon title
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A TOUR THROUGH ENGLAND, described in a series of letters from a young gentleman to his sister. With copper plates. Second edition, revised.
London: Tabart and Co. At their Juvenile Library…, 1806. (Price Half-a-crown.). vi, 200, [8 ad’s} pages. Folding engraved map and six full-page engraved plates. Original marbled boards, sometime re-backed in sheep gilt. 140 x 95 mm. Boards very rubbed and worn; rear end-paper replaced; ownership inscriptions on front end-papers; a previous owner has drawn some gulls in the sky in the engraving of Birmingham; else a very good copy. This work is rarely found with the map and is usually lacking some plates. See Moon, 174, who lists the second edition as being complete with five plates.
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A TOUR THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE OF FRANCE; or, New Topographical and Historical Sketch of all its most important and interesting cities, towns, forts, castles, palaces, islands, harbours, bridges, rivers, antiquities, &c. &c. Embellished with copper-plates.
London: Printed and Sold by William Darton, Jun, 1815. 112, [3 Index], [1 blank], [4 ad's] pages. Illustrated with a hand-coloured folding map as the frontispiece, and 12 engraved plates, many bearing two images of town criers. Original quarter red sheep gilt over paper-covered boards. 12mo. First edition. Map and spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy. The front fixed endpaper bears the bookplate of Lawrence Darton. See Darton H56(1). Scarce.
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A TOUR TO GREAT ST. BERNARD'S AND ROUND MONT BLANC. With Descriptions copied from a journal; kept by the author; and drawings taken from nature. Intended for young Persons from ten to fourteen Years of Age.
London: Harvey and Darton, 1827. iv, 144 pages. Illustrated with a folding map, and eight engraved plates each bearing two images. Original red roan backed pictorial paper-covered boards. First edition. Gift inscription on title; advert' for children's book published at Hailes's Juvenile Library to front pastedown. A very good copy. Darton G178.
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A TREASURY OF PLEASURE BOOKS for Young Children. With more than one hundred illustrations by John Absolon and Harrison Weir.
London: Grant and Griffith… and Joseph Cundall, 1850. viii, [280] pages. All the engravings hand-coloured as issued. Contemporary green half calf over marbled boards. All edges gilt. 170 x 124 mm. The book contains twenty-one classic tales of the nursery, including, The Three Bears; Goody Two-Shoes, Old Mother Hubbard, Bo-Peep, and Simple Simon. See McLean, Page 69.
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A TREATISE ON EDUCATION, In Two Parts, With the author's method of instruction while he taught the School of Dumfries. And a view of other books on education. The fourth edition, considerably enlarged.
London: Printed for the author, 1790. xii, 242, 2, [4], 3 – 37, [1 blank], [2 list of Books and an advertisement] pages. Recent quarter calf over marbled boards; red gilt label to spine. Octavo. Lacks half-title; manuscript name, 'Mercantile Library' at head of title; else a very good copy of a work first published in 1773. George Chapman (1723-1806) was a professional educator. He published a number of other works on education, amongst them 'Hints on the Education of the Lower Ranks of the People' and 'The Appointment of Parochial Schoolmasters'.
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A Truly Story of My Dolls.
Boston: L. Prang & Co, No date [1889]. [12] pages. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original pictorial full-colour stiff wrappers. 130 x 121 mm. First edition. Ownership name and date at foot of title; else a very good copy. Scarce.
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A VISIT TO THE BAZAAR: By the Author of The Little Warbler of the Cottage; Juliet, or The Reward of Filial Affection; Port Folio, &c. &c.
London: J. Harris, corner of St. Paul’s Church Yard; and may also be had at several shops in the Bazaar, Soho Square. [iv], 92 pages. Illustrated with a copper plate frontispiece, dated Feb. 20 1818, and thirty-one other full-page engravings, all additional to pagination. Original quarter roan with grey printed pictorial boards with a vignette of Harris’s bookshop. 129 x100 mm. First edition. Slight wear to boards; some wear to head & heel spine; cracking to upper inner hinge; some spotting throughout; else a very good copy of one of the most charming publications of John Harris. Moon 956(1).
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A VISIT TO THE BAZAAR: By the Author of The Little Warbler of the Cottage, Juliet, or the Reward of Filial Affection, Port Folio, &C. &C.
London: J. Harris…. And may also be had at several shops in The Bazaar, Soho Square, 1820. [4], 92 pages. Illustrated with 32 hand-coloured engraved full-page plates. Original quarter red roan gilt over pictorial paper-covered boards; the upper cover showing Harris’s shop in St. Paul’s Church-yard. 135 x 109 mm. Boards very rubbed and faded; else a very good, clean copy. The book shows the assorted goods on sale at the Soho Bazaar. Instruction on the making and origin of them is intermingled with amusement, making the book a simple but educative item of social history. See Moon 956. ]
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A WAS AN ARCHER. Untearable.
London: Ernest Nister, No date [circa 1898]. Softcover. [16] pages, including pastedown wrappers. Four colour plates and many illustrations in single colours illustrating the letters of the alphabet. Original pictorial card covers. 28 x 23 cm. Little rubbed and worn, but a very nice alphabet.
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