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A APPLE PIE. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [1887]. Unpaged. 22 leaves printed on one side only. Illustrated throughout in colour by Kate Greenaway. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Fore-edges stained red. Oblong: 21.2 x 26.4 cm. First edition. Contemporary inscription on half-title; some occasional spotting; else a very handsome copy. Schuster & Engen 1[c].
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A.B.C. FÖR BARN.
Stockholm: Fr. Huldberg, No date [circa 1840?]. A Swedish picture sheet for a child's nursery, illustrating the letters of the alphabet, etc. A lithograph of twenty four images all hand-coloured as issued. Splitting at centrefold; else near fine. Mounted in acid-free board. Exposed image size: 31.3 x 39.7 cm. Mount size: 45 x 53 cm.
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A.B.C. für artige Kinder In Silhouetten und Reimen.
Kassel: G. E. Vollmann, No date [circa 1854]. [62] pages. With black & white silhouettes illustrating the letters of the alphabet. Original paper-covered boards; the front panel with a silhouette illustration, the rear panel with ad’s. 180 x 132 mm. Covers dust-soiled; else very good and clean. A charming but fragile book, rarely found in such a good state.
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A BOOK EXPLAINING THE RANKS AND DIGNITIES OF BRITISH SOCIETY. Intended chiefly for the instruction of Young Persons. With twenty-four coloured engravings. Price Seven Shillings, Coloured.
London: Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School Library…, 1809. [4], 136, [1 List of the plates], [1 blank], [2 ad’s]. pages. Illustrated with 24 hand-coloured engraved plates. Bound in half green sheep gilt over green cloth. All edges gilt. 148 x 100 mm. A very good, clean, fresh copy.
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A BOOK OF CHRISTMAS VERSE. With ten designs by Walter Crane.
London. Methuen and Company, 1895. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. [i-vi], vii-xvi, [1-2], 3-173, [174] pages, plus 32 ad's. Ten black & white illustrations. Original pictorial green and red cloth. Top edge gilt. Octavo. First edition. Small bookplate and bookseller label to paste-down front endpaper. Some foxing to endpapers and half-title; Tissue guard to title foxed; else a very good copy.
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A BOOK OF NONSENSE By Derry Down Derry.
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A BOOK OF NONSENSE. By Edward Lear, Third edition. With many new pictures and verses. London.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1862.]. [ii], 113 leaves printed on one side only. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, sometime re-backed in imitation of the original. A few leaves have some slight damage to the fore-edges where once loose; one leaf repaired; one leaf with juvenile scribble on blank verso; binding very worn to corners and edges, and both boards with old fold marks, now repaired. However, this third printing, the first with woodcut illustrations based on the earlier [1846] lithographs, and the first enlarged edition with 43 new rhymes and illustrations, is extremely rare; in our experience, much more so than the second edition of 1855. -
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A BOOK OF NONSENSE. Fifth edition. With many new pictures and verses.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, No date [1862 and inscribed 1862 on front pastedown]. [2ff], 112ff, all printed on one side only. Pictorial title and 112 wood-engraved illustration with limericks beneath. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper -covered boards. Oblong: 145 x 220 mm. Pages mis-numbered from page 89 to 99, as is often the case; boards rubbed and worn at edges and corners. But a good, clean copy with no damage to the leaves. Inscribed on front paste-down: ‘To Miss Fanny Scott. A prize for walking. Midsummer 1862.’
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A bound collection of seven chapbooks.
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A BOY'S TOWN. Illustrated.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. vi, 247 pages. Illustrated with 23 black & white full-page plates. Original blue decorative cloth; silver gilt; titling in gold. Octavo. First edition. Small blank corner torn from one leaf; else a very good copy.
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A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF ALL THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
London: John Wallis, 1792. 32 pages. Original marbled paper wrappers. 199 x 75 mm. Ownership name on end-paper. A very good copy. ESTC suggests that this may have been issued with a dissected puzzle, Wallis’s Key to the Old Testament. Scarce.
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A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896. xiv, 136[140], [1 ad’] pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original red cloth with printed label to spine, and the pictorial gilt covers of the trade edition bound in at front and rear. Top edge gilt. Octavo. First edition. One of a limited edition of 150 copies on hand-made paper. Paper label on spine a little rubbed and worn [there is a spare copy tipped in at the rear]; slight rubbing to edges and spine ends; late ownership inscription on first free endpaper; else an excellent copy of the first illustrated edition of this classic.
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A CHILD'S MEMORIAL; or A New Token for Children: Containing an Account of the early piety, and happy death of Miss Dinah Doudney of Portsea, aged nine years. Delivered to a congregation of children in Orange-Street Chapel, on New Year's Day, 1805. Third Edition. To which is added an account of Miss Sarah Barrow, who was burnt to death April the 4th, 1805. By John Griffin.
Portsea: Printed and Sold by J,. Horsey. Sold also by Booksellers in Portsea and Portsmouth; and by T. Williams, Stationer's-Court. London, 1805. 58 pages. Original printed buff wrappers. 13.7 x 8.7 cm. Some corners turned; spine expertly repaired; occasional minor staining; else a good copy. The British Library hold copies of the fourth and seventh edition.
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A CHILDREN’S SUMMER Eleven etchings on steel by E. V. B. Illustrated in Prose and Rhyme by M. L. B. and W. M. C.
London: Addey and Co, 1853. [31] pages. 9 full-page etchings and two smaller illustrations within pages of text, all finely hand-coloured by Eleanor Vere Boyle. Original leather-backed brown cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Oblong folio. First edition. Slight rubbing to spine; some spotting throughout as is usual with this book; short marginal tear to one leaf of text; lower corners bumped; else a very good copy of one of the finest children’s books of the nineteenth century. Hand-coloured copies are rare. The prose contribution is by the illustrator's cousin, Mary Boyle, and the verse by W. M. Call. A Children's Summer was much praised by John Ruskin, Thomas Landseer, Tom Taylor, and Francis Turner Palgrave.
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A CHILDREN’S SUMMER. Eleven etchings on steel by E. V. B. Illustrated in prose and rhyme by M. L. B. [Mary Louisa Boyle] and W. M. C. [Wathen Mark Wilks Call].
London: Addey and Co, 1853. [. 15] leaves of text. Illustrated with 8 full-page etchings and two vignettes. Original half calf over blue ribbed cloth gilt. Oblong: 285 x 371 mm. First edition. Presentation copy from E.V.B. to Wathen Mark Wilks Call, inscribed on title-page: ‘W. M. W. Call from EVB with her best Christmas good wishes! Dec 23nd 1852.’ There are some pencil annotations in pencil in Call’s hand, mostly the addition of his initials to verses he has authored. Some foxing, as is common with this title; front endpaper worn and with some loss; front board rubbed and slightly damped; else a very good copy of an important presentation copy. A Children’s Summer was E.V.B.’s second book.
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A collection of 14 Banbury Penny chapbooks contained in a morocco-backed folding box.
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A COLLECTION OF BIRDS & RIDDLES. By Miss Polly & Master Tommy.
York: James Kendrew, Printer, Colliergate, No date [circa 1830]. 16 pages, including wrappers. Illustrated with fifteen wood-engravings. Original yellow printed wrapper. 99 x 67 mm. The illustrated text extends to the lower wrapper. A very good copy.
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A Continuation of the Adventures of DAME TROT and HER COMICAL CAT.
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A DRIVE IN THE COACH Through the Streets of London. A Story founded on Fact. By Mrs. Sherwood… Sixth edition.
Wellington, Salop: F. Houlston and Son. And sold by Scatcherd and Letterman, Ave-Marie Lane, London, 1821. 35 pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece, vignette on title, and five wood-engravings throughout. Original printed wrappers. 140 x 90mm. Spine rubbed; small piece of surface paper missing from rear cover; else a very good copy.
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A DRIVE IN THE COACH THROUGH THE STREETS OF LONDON. A Story Founded on Fact. Fourteenth edition.
London: Houlston and Son, 1836. 35,[1 blank] pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title, and five full-page wood-engravings. Original printed buff wrappers. 14.2 x 9.2 cm. Just splitting at heel of spine; acquisition number at foot of title; else a very good copy.
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