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AESOP’S FABLES, accompanied by many hundred Proverbs and Moral Maxims suited to the subject of each Fable.
Dublin: P. Dixon Hardy, Cecilia Street, 1836. 180 pages. Illustrated with numerous wood-engravings throughout. Recent half calf gilt over marbled boards. 146 x 92 mm. Lower outer corner and that of title-page with small loss; else a very good copy.
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AESOP’S FABLES. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. The Banbury Cross Series Prepared for children by Grace Rhys.
London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1895. Unpaged but [30] pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original pictorial green cloth gilt with purple ties. A fine Copy. Charles Robinson’s first book, and very scarce in such fine condition.
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AESOP’S FABLES. One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices.
Printed at the Chiswick Press, by C. Whittingham; for Carpenter and Son…, 1814. xii, 260 pages. Wood-engraved Vignette on title, and 110 wood-engravings within the text. Sometime rebound in quarter calf over marbled boards with a red gilt label to the spine. 130 x 82 mm. A very good copy.
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AESOPI PHRYGIS FABULAE GRAECE ET LATINE, cum Aliis Quibusdam Opusculis: Quorum Indicem sequens pegella indicabit.
Basileae [Basel]: Typis Joan, Jacobi Genathi, 1616. 520, [6 Index] pages. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Cotemporary full plain vellum. 10 x 7.5 cm. Some browning; split to the vellum on the spine; else a very good copy, contained in a modern calf-backed clamshell box.
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Aesops Fabeln für die Jugend. In deutscher, französischer und englischer Sprache. Illustrirt mit 98 Bildern.
Leipzig: Friedrich August Leo, 1844. [ii], 98 pages. Illustrated with a separate hand-coloured pictorial title, and 7 full-page hand-coloured plates. Bound in later cloth-backed paper-covered boards. 220 x 180 mm. Text in parallel text of three columns. Some foxing to text; some browning to plates; boards a little bumped at corners; else very good. Small bookplate of Lady Nina Knowles to front pastedown. Scarce.
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AFTER BATH or (if you prefer) The remarkable Case of the Flying Hat. Illustrated by Audrey Pilkington.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1945. 308 pages. Illustrated in black & white. Original green cloth; original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Cloth spine a little faded; touch of wear to head of the wrapper’s spine; else a very good, clean copy
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AFTERNOON TEA PAINTING BOOK. A Collection of outline engravings for water-colour painting. By H. H. Emerson and J. G. Sowerby.
London: Frederick Warne and Co, No date [Inscribed 1884]. 95 pages of illustrations and text, including 4 colour plates with their outline duplicate. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Quarto. First edition. One gather loosening; else a fine copy. Page 9 is a ‘key’ referring the reader to the colour plate in the published editions of ‘Afternoon Tea’ and ‘May-Blossom’ Very scarce: we have never seen this painting book before.
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AKE AND HIS WORLD. Illustrated by Georgina and Philip Dawson.
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1941. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First U. K. edition. Wrapper, which is a little worn, has a chip at the bottom of the spine; else very good.
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ALADDIN or The Wonderful Lamp. Dean & Son’s Pantomime Toy Books. With five Set Scenes and Nine Trick Changes.
London: Dean & Son, No date [circa 1880's]. 9 pages of text, the tenth beings ad’s. Illustrated with 26 pages, varying in size, of chromo-lithographed illustrations, cut and bound in such a way as to 'move' the story forward. Original pictorial wrappers. Spine restored and contents re-sewn. A very good copy of a scarce Dean’s moveable. One of at least eight titles produced by Dean in this format.
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ALAN GARNER'S FAIRY TALES OF GOLD. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
New York.Philomel. 1980. 11-200pp. Colour illustrated throughout by Michael Foreman. Yellow pictorial boards. Pictorial dust wrapper. Octavo. First U.S. Edition. Signed by the illustrator. A fine copy.
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ALBERT, POLICE BEAR. Illustrated by Margaret Gordon.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1975. 62 pages. Original boards gilt. Original dust-wrapper. Octavo. Signed by Alison Jezard on the front endpaper. Some light browning to the flaps of the dust-wrapper; else a very good copy.
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Albums du Père Castor. EN FAMILLE. Dessins de F. Rojankovsky. Text de Marguerite Reynier. Flammarion Éditeur.
1934. [. 24] pages. Illustrated with 10 full-page and two smaller colour lithographs, and others in black & white. Original pictorial wrappers. 320 x 285 mm. Covers very lightly dust-soiled, and heel of spine a little bumped; else a good clean copy.
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Alfred Crowquill's Fairy Tales. TINY AND HER VANITY: or, Self Opinion.
London.G. Routledge & Co. 1857. 32pp., including pastedown wrapeprs. 14 hand-coloured engraved full-page plates. Original pictorial wrappers. Octavo. First edition. Covers very little dust-soiled; else a very good copy.COPAC lists only two copies.
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ALFRED & GALBA: or The History of Two Brothers, supposed to be written by themselves. For the Use of Young People.
London: Williams and Smith, 1805. vii, [1], [1], 2-175, [1 ad’s] pages. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary green roan gilt. First edition. Little soiled throughout; some tiny tears to the fore-edge of the title; binding a little rubbed and worn; ownership inscriptions on front endpapers; else a very good copy of a rare work. COPAC records only one copy of the first edition.
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ALGERNON HALL. A Story for Children by Georgiana. Illustrated by her Sisters, Minnie & May.
Oxford and London.John Henry & James Parker. 1866. 41pp. Illustrated title, frontispiece and seven other illustrations. Original cloth gilt. First edition. Purple cloth faded at spine; cloth a little rubbed; else a very good clean copy.
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
London: Juvenile Productions, Ltd, No date [circa early 1940’s]. 190 pages. Illustrated with 8 colour plates and numerous line drawings by D. R. Sexton. Original pictorial paper covered boards. 278 x 212 mm. Ownership box on front pastedown filled in; half-title lightly browned; one colour plate has a small piece missing from the blank margin; else a particularly good copy of this large format edition. Scarce.
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll. Illustrated with six Coloured Lithographs by Marie Laurencin.
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. [iv], 114, [2 blank], [1 colophon] pages. Number 185 of the 420 numbered copies for the United States, of which the first 350 were printed on Rives paper. Complete with the original tissue wrapper, which has a small chip at both head and heel of spine, together with the original slipcase which is very worn and distressed. The book itself, however, is a fine, clean copy without any marks or inscriptions.
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ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING–GLASS and what Alice found there. Illustrated by Peter Blake.
Nottingham: D3 Editions, 2004. 100 pages. Illustrated with 8 mounted coloured plates, and others in black & white. Original blue cloth gilt, with mounted pictorial label to upper cover, and clear wrapper. Number 349 of a limited signed edition of 500 copies. Original prospectus loosely laid in. Clear wrapper a little scratched; else a fine/mint copy.
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ALICE’S ABENTEUER IM WUNDERLAND. Uebersetzt von Antonie Zimmermann. Mit zweiundvierzig Illustrationen von John Tenniel.
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. With illustrations by Mervyn Peake. A Library of British and Continental Authors. Vol. 67.
Stockholm/London: Zephyr Books. The Continental Book Company, 1946. Softcover with original dust-wrapper. First edition with Peake's illustrations, preceeding the U.K. first by eight years. A very nice copy; rare in wrapper.
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