Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, No date [circa 1805]. 8 pages. Unstitched. Woodcut to title. Approximately 14.5 x 8.5 cm. A very good copy.

Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, No date [circa 1807]. Single sheet folded to form 8 pages. Uncut. Woodcut to title. Approximately 14.5 x 8.5 cm. Dust-soiled; else a good copy. The first song celebrates Nelson's Victory in the Battle of the Nile

Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, No date [circa 1807]. Single sheet folded to form 8 pages. Uncut. Woodcut to title. Approximately 14.5 x 8.5 cm. Dust-soiled; else a good copy. The first song mourns the death of Nelson's at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, No date [circa 1805]. Single sheet folded to form 8 pages. Uncut. Woodcut to title. Approximately 14.5 x 8.5 cm. A very good copy.

Newcastle upon Tyne: J. Marshall, No date [circa 1805]. Single sheet folded to form 8 pages. Uncut. Woodcut to title. Approximately 14.5 x 8.5 cm. Dust-soiled; else a good copy.

London: Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1818. 144 pages. Illustrated with 60 hand-coloured full-page engravings. Original quarter sheep gilt over marbled boards. 158 x 100 mm. The head & heel of the spine has been repaired at some time, but is now worn again and cracking; boards rubbed and worn at corners; inscribed at head of title: ‘Presented to Miss Anne Rich by Lady Rich July 1819.’ Text clean, though with the occasional mark and old crease. A good plus copy. First published in 1817. See Darton G975(2)

London: Thomas Dean & Co, No date [between 1843 and 1847]. 63 pages Illustrated with seven hand-coloured engravings. Original green cloth gilt. 170 x 110mm. Old crease in frontispiece; else a very good copy. Quite scarce: two copies only listed in COPAC.

London: Thomas Dean & Co, No date [no later than 1838]. 60 pages Illustrated with seven hand-coloured engravings. Original green cloth gilt. 156 x 124mm. Gift inscription on endpaper; else a very good copy. Quite scarce: two copies only listed in COPAC.

London: George Routledge, 1884. 127 pages. Later plain, untitled cloth. Octavo. First U. K. edition. Inner joints cracked; some staining to half-title; else very good. Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (March 2, 1831 – June 26, 1885) is credited with authoring of one of the first detective novels in the United States. She wrote over 100 dime novels and was one of the most highly paid novelists of her day.

London: Richard Phillips, 1810. viii, 216 pages. Folding engraved frontispiece Original sheep, recently and finely re-backed. 140 x 94 mm. Lacks front fre endpaper; ownership name on blank recto of frontispiece; last page a little worn and browned; else a very good copy of a scarce title.

Issued by the National Trust, No date, but circa 1953. Illustrated with 12 coloured illustrations, one for every month of the year. Original pictorial wrappers. Staples beginning to rust, else fine.

Edinburgh: John Brown, 1804. Two volumes. vii, 400; [4], 348 pages. Handsomely rebound at some time in full calf gilt with black gilt labels. 179 x 112mm. A very good set of this work first published by John Newbery in 1764. .

London: J. Harris, 1817. Sixth edition. viii, 172 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original quarter red road, gilt over marbled boards. 147 x 96 mm. Frontispiece lightly offsetting to title; pages 125-128 mis-bound out of order; stamp of Launceston Public Library to front and rear endpapers; else a very good copy. Moon 78(6). First published in 1814. Mrs. Budden describes her book as ‘a concise and simple elucidation of the several articles of daily use and daily consumption’. Mrs Moon adds, ‘The information is conveyed in conversations between children and an encyclopaedic mother.’

London: J. Harris, 1814. viii, 172 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Bound in recent quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards. 139 x 93 mm. Name on blank recto of frontispiece; bookplate; else a very good copy of a work that is quite scarce in first edition form. By 1841 it had reached its 11th edition. Moon 77. John Harris's Books for Youth.

London: J. Scatcherd, 1801. Iv, 240 pages. Original full sheep. 12mo. First edition. Substantial loss of leather to spine; else a very clean copy.

London: Ernest Nister, No date [circa 1900]. A die-cut shaped book in the form of a monkey. [8] pages. With four coloured illustrations. Maximum height: 10.8 cm. A very good copy.

London: Harvey and Darton, 1832. 182, [4 ad’s] pages. Engraved frontispiece; vignette on additional engraved title, and four other full-page engravings. Original quarter roan over cloth. 182 x 112 mm. First edition. Book plate of Eric Quayle to endpaper; spine a little weak at head; else a very good, clean copy.

London: William Darton, No date [1824]. 108 [1 engraved trade plate] pages. Illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece and two other full-page engraved plates. Original quarter red roan gilt. 148 x 93mm. First edition. Some leather lost from heel of spine; else a very good copy. Darton H1502(1).

London: Ja.s Imray, No date [circa 1800]. 20 Featherstone St, City Road. Price Sixpence. 52 pages. Illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece, engraved title with vignette of a parrot, and 14 wood-engravings in the text. Original marbled wrappers. 118 x 82 mm. Generally rather worn – particularly so the wrapper, the lower have some loss of marbled paper; lacks rear endpaper; ownership names to endpapers; also the book plate of Marjorie Moon; else a good copy of a rare title. Very little is known of Jas. Imray and all his books are scarce.

Alnwick: W. Davison, No date [circa 1815/20]. 36 pages. Original wrappers with a small wood-engraved vignette to the upper cover, and a large wood-engraving to the lower. 138 x 88mm. A very good copy. One of seven separately issued titles forming a ‘natural history.’