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PIECES CHOISIES de L’Ami des Enfans de M. Berquin. A l’usage des ecoles. Avec frontispiece.
A Londres. Imprime par A. Paris, Rolls-Building; Pour A. Dulau & Co. Libraires, 107, Wardour-street, Soho; se trouve aussi Chez J. De Bosse, Gerard-street, Soho; T. Boosey, Broad-street, Royal Exchange; Booker, Old Bond-street; Polodori, Hay-market; Gourdau, Bridges-street, Covent Garden, et chez tous Autres Libraires, 1796. 4, [2 table], [2ad’s], 5-324 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Bound in modern two-tone paper-covered boards with a printed paper label to the spine. 165 x 103mm. First edition. Paper fault in the blank margin of one leaf; two pages mis-numbered. A very good copy of a rare selection of stories from Arnaud Berquin's, L'Ami des Enfans (London, 1782-3), intended for school use. No copy recorded on ESTC. Which lists only three copies of the second edition of 1798.
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PROVERBS EXEMPLIFIED, AND ILLUSRATED BY PICTURES FROM REAL LIFE. Teaching Morality and a Knowledge of the World; With Prints. Designed as a Succession-Book to Aesop’s Fables. After the manner, and by the Author, of Hogarth Moralized. Rev. J. Trusler…At The Literary=Press… [Price three shillings, half bound.]
London: Literary=Press, 1790. viii, 196 pages. Illustrated with woodcut vignette to title and forty-nine other cuts throughout by John Bewick. Later half-bound sheep gilt over marbled boards. 12mo. Top edge gilt. 160 x 98 mm. First edition. Last page a little dust-soiled; tipped in bookplate of the Rev. Thomas Hugo, with the manuscript collection number; note on free endpaper concerning rarity. An excellent copy with a fine provenance.
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RILEY’S HISTORICAL POCKET LIBRARY: six volumes. Volume V. only. A New and Chronological History of England, from the earliest accounts to the present Time. Second edition.
London: G. Riley… Champante and Whitrow… S. Hazard, Bath, 1790. 245, [1 blank], vii Index, [3 ad’s] pages. Engraved frontispiece and illustrated throughout with small engraved portrait roundels. Contemporary full calf gilt with coloured labels to the spine. 120 x 100. Title offset to frontispiece; else an excellent copy.
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Roman Stories: or THE HISTORY OF THE SEVEN WISE MISTRESSES OF ROME: containing seven days entertainment, in many pleasant and witty tales and stories; wherein the treachery of evil counsellors is discovered, innocency cleared, and the wisdom of the seven masters displayed. Newly corrected and better explained and enlarged; and adorned with cuts expressing the history. The thirty-second edition.
London: J. Hollis, No date [between 1785 -1792]. 96 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and cuts within the text. 19th century half calf over marbled boards. 159 x 94 mm. A very good copy.
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Roman Stories: or the HISTORY OF THE SEVEN WISE MISTRESSES OF ROME: containing Seven Days Entertainment, in many Pleasant and Witty Tales and Stories; wherein the Treachery of Evil Counsellors is discovered, Innocency cleared, and the Wisdom of the Seven Wise Mistresses displayed. Newly corrected and better explained and enlarged; and adorned with Cuts expressing the History. The Thirty-First Edition.
London: J. Hollis... where also may be had The History of the Seven Wise Masters, No date [circa 1790]. 96 pages. Engraved frontispiece, and 8 woodcuts within the text. Later plain sugar-paper wrappers. 12mo. A very good copy. No copy by this publisher located in ESTC., but a copy in the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton. The preface concludes. 'This small Book, by the diverting Stories therein, encourages and allures Youth to learn to read English; for which end it is written in an intelligible and easy style, adapted to the meanest Capacities.'
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RURAL WALKS: IN Dialogues intended for the use of young persons. By Charlotte Smith, in two volumes. Vol. I.
London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1795. vi, [2], 174 pages. Original green vellum-backed marbled boards with a paper label to the spine. 158 x 98 mm. First edition. Together with Volume II. The fourth edition. 1800. [iv] 183, [1 ad’s] pages.. Original green vellum-backed marbled boards with a paper label to the spine. First edition. Together with Volume II. The fourth edition. 1800. [iv] 183, [1 ad’s] pages. 153 x 95 mm. Vol. I. Spine cracked on Vol. II, and boards rubbed and label worn; else a good mixed set of a scarce work. The pair housed in a cardboard slipcase.
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SACRED DRAMAS; For Young Persons: the Subjects taken from the Bible. To which is added Sensibility, a Poem. Second edition.
London: T. Cadell, 1782. x, [2], 290, [1 ad'], [1 blank], pages. Contemporary full calf, gilt black label to spine. Octavo. Spine cracked; head worn; signature of A. A. Gautier to endpaper; some light foxing at start and end; else a very good copy.
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SATAN'S DECOY; or the Youth's Faith in Christ.
Printed in the Year 179. [1]?. [8] pages. Woodcut vignette to title-page. 12mo. An excellent copy, unstitched as issued. Rare. ESTC records only two copies: the B.L., which suggest Newcastle as the origin; and National Library of Scotland.
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SELECT PIECES OF POETRY, intended to promote piety and virtue in the minds of young people. Collected by Rachel Barclay.
London: James Phillips, 1795. [3], iv, [2], vi-viii, 168 pages. With half-title, not included in paging. Nineteenth century sheep, recently re-backed. Octavo. First edition. Boards rubbed and corners of boards worn; neat signature on front pastedown; else a very good copy.
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SELECT PORTIONS OF SCRIPTURE, and Remarkable Occurencies Verified for the Instruction and Entertaiment of Younger Minds. By Thomas Gibbons, D.D.
London: J. Buckland, 1781. viii, 98, [2] ad's. Contemporary half sheep, gilt with new spine label. 12mo. First Edition. Lacks half-title; smudge on title; some fore-edges unevenly trimmed; else very good. This book would appear to be rare; ESTC listing three copies only: British Library; Oxford University Regent's Park College; Free Library of Philadelphia. The book is comprised of verses inspired by passages from the Bible, designed to lead youth along the path of virtue. However, some of the verses are quite risqué, and may well have provoked an opposite reaction to that desired.
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SELECT TALES AND FABLES with Prudential Maxims and other Little Lessons of Morality in Prose and Verse Equally Instructive & Entertaining for the use of Both Sexes wherein Their Foibles as well as Beauties are presented to their View in the fairest & most inoffensive point of Light. The Whole embellish’d with Threescore Original Designs, expressive of each Subject, neatly engrav’d on Copper Plates, and publish’d according to Act of Parliament. By B. Cole, Engraver...
London: T. Osborn... And J. Nourse, 1746. Two volumes bound as one. Emblematical frontispiece; Main title; Volume title. [viii], 80pp. With 30 engravings on 15 pages, extra to pagination. Volume II: Volume Title; iv, 80pp. With 30 engravings on 15 pages, extra to pagination. Contemporary sheep re-backed. 12mo. First edition. There is some minor repaired damage to two leaves of text, and a leaf with a small piece missing from the blank margin; there are a few blank corners lost, and some spotting and staining throughout. Else a very good copy of a very rare and early children’s book. Volume one contains six alphabets. ESTC records a copy of 1752 with the second volume dated 1746. Oppenheimer 2292 a later edition.
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Sentences for Children, English and Latin. Collected out of Sundry Authors long since by Leonard Culman: And now translated into English by Charles Hoole; For the first Enterers into Latin.
London: J. Janeway, for the Company of Stationers, 1734. [2], 3, 4-40 x 2 pages. English and Latin pages being printed side by side. Contemporary plain, untitled full sheep. 148 x 90 mm. A very good copy. First published 1669.
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Spectacle de la Nature; Or Nature displayed, being Discourses on such Particulars of Natural History as were thought most proper to Excite the Curiosity and Form the Minds of Youth. Illustrated with Copper Plates. Translated from the French, by Mr Humphries.
London: J. & J. Pemberton, 1739. Vol. I: [6], xviii, 323, [12 index], [1 ad’] pages. 25 engraved plates including many folding. Vol. II: viii, [4 ad’s], 312 pages. 34 engraved plates; many folding. full contemporary calf, gilt; red labels to the spines. Thick small 8vo. Bindings worn and heavily rubbed; one plate with a clean tear but no loss; else a very good set. The work was eventually extended to 7 vols.
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TALES FOR YOUTH; in Thirty Poems: to which are annexed, historical remarks and moral applications in prose. By the Author of “Choice Emblems for the Improvement of Youth,” &c. Ornamented with cuts, neatly designed and engraved on wood by Bewick.
London: E. Newbery, 1794. x, 158, [2 ad’s] pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and thirty woodcuts by John Bewick. Expertly rebound in full sheep gilt with a black gilt label t0 the spine. 12mo. First edition. A lovely, clean copy. Tattersfield JB61. ]
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THE A, B, C. WITH THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CATECHISM. TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, PRAYERS USED IN THE ACADEMY OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, IN PHILADELPHIA. ALSO, A HYMN ON THE NATIVITY OF OUR SAVIOUR; AND ANOTHER FOR EASTER-DAY.
Philadelphia: Young, Stewart, and M'Culloch, 1785. 12 pages, unstitched; partly uncut. 12mo. Title-page within decorative border. Split at back joint and repaired at some time with Japanese paper; front and rear covers dust-soiled with a couple of small rubs; little frayed at top edge. A good copy only. A note on page 2 reads: "The Blanks left in Page 6, were formerly filled up with the Words (King) and (him); but as that Form of Expression does not suit our Republican Governments, the Teacher will be pleased to fill up the Blanks with what Words he may deem Expedient." Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books [99] page 45.
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THE BEAUTIES OF THE CREATION: or, a new moral system of Natural History; in five volumes: consisting of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes and Reptiles, Insects, Trees and Flowers, &c. &c. The second edition. Volume I. QUADRUPEDS.
London: Printed for G. Riley… S. Hazard, Bath, 1793. xiii, [3], 239 pages. Engraved frontispiece and numerous woodcuts within the text. Later binding of quarter calf gilt over buff coloured paper-covered boards. 120 x 102 mm. Some occasional marking; else a very good copy. Very scarce. First published with this title in 1792., but originally published in part, in one volume, in 1789, entitled, A New Moral System of Natural History.
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THE BEAUTIES OF THE CREATION: or, a new moral system of Natural History; in five volumes: consisting of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes and Reptiles, Insects, Trees and Flowers, &c. &c. The second edition. Volume II. BIRDS.
London: 1793. [viii], 244, [4 adverts] pages. Engraved frontispiece and numerous woodcuts within the text. Later binding of quarter calf gilt over buff coloured paper-covered boards. 120 x 102 mm. Title a little marked and foxed; else a very good copy. Very scarce. First published with this title in 1792., but originally published in part, in one volume, in 1789, entitled, A New Moral System of Natural History.
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THE BEAUTIES OF THE CREATION: or, a new moral system of Natural History; in five volumes: consisting of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes and Reptiles, Insects, Trees and Flowers, &c. &c. The second edition. Volume III. FISHES AND REPTILES.
London: Printed for G. Riley… S. Hazard, Bath, 1793. 242, [2 Index] pages. Engraved frontispiece and numerous woodcuts within the text. Later binding of quarter calf gilt over buff coloured paper-covered boards. 120 x 102 mm. Some occasional marking; else a very good copy. Very scarce. First published with this title in 1792., but originally published in part, in one volume, in 1789, entitled, A New Moral System of Natural History.
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THE BEAUTIES OF THE CREATION: or, a new moral system of Natural History; in five volumes: consisting of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes and Reptiles, Insects, Trees and Flowers, &c. &c. The second edition. Volume V. FLOWERS.
London: Printed for G. Riley… S. Hazard, Bath, 1793. [4], 252 pages. Engraved frontispiece and numerous woodcuts within the text. Later binding of quarter calf gilt over buff coloured paper-covered boards. 120 x 102 mm. Small stain on title; else a very good copy. Very scarce. First published with this title in 1792., but originally published in part, in one volume, in 1789, entitled, A New Moral System of Natural History.
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THE BEE. A Selection of Poetical Flowers from the most approved Authors.
London.W. Chalklen, 1788. iv, [3], [1 blank], 194 pages. Bound in nineteenth century half calf, gilt over marbled boards. 12.3 x 7.1 cm's. First edition. Binding a little rubbed and beginning to split at upper joint, though firm; few light marks; else a very good copy. This title was taken up by the firm of Darton and Harvey and was first published by them in 1791. Their last recorded issue was circa 1835. The first edition is rare, Worldcat recording only one copy.
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