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A NEW RIDDLE BOOK, or a whetstone for dull wits. Of Merry Books this is the Chief, ‘Tis as a Purging PILL; To carry off all heavy Grief, And make you laugh your Fill.
Printed at Derby, for the Benefit of the Travelling Stationers: No date. (Circa 1790.). 24 pages. 20 fine wood-engravings. Original semi-stiff wrappers with two wood-engravings on each cover. 12mo. 14.5 x 9 cm. A fine copy of a rare riddle book.
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A PEEP AT THE ESQUIMAUX; or, Scenes on the Ice. To which is annexed, A Polar Pastoral. With forty coloured plates, from original designs. By a Lady. Second edition.
London: H. R. Thomas, 1825. viii, [4], 5 -58, [4 cat'] pages. Engravings hand-coloured throughout, as issued. Contemporary half calf, gilt. Octavo. Pages 17/18 has a closed tear, some soiling and marking throughout; small tear at the edge of one leaf; else a good plus copy of a work that is scarce in either first or second edition. The wood engravings, which depict Esquimaux life and dress, implements used in everyday, together with examples of Arctic fauna, are derived from the illustrations by Captain George Francis Lyon, published in Sir William Edward Parry's 'Journal Of A Second Voyage For The Discovery of A North-West Passage, London, 1824. Osborne Page 75. The first edition was published in the same year as the second edition.
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A PEEP AT THE WORLD’S FAIR.
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, No date [circa 1893]. [. [28] pages the first and last being blanks pasted to the font and rear boards as issued. Illustrated with 12 full colour plates and numerous single colour drawings within the text. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 244 x 188 mm. The cover design is by W. & F. Brundage. Little worn at edges and corners; front inner joint cracked but firm; else very good. .
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A PICTURE OF THE SEASONS; with anecdotes and remarks on every month in the year. Embellished with Cuts.
London: Printed for the Executrix of the late W. Welton; and sold be C. F. Cock, 21, Fleet Street, No date [circa 1830]. 176 pages. Engraved frontispiece and five other full-page engraved plates, plus 9 wood-engraved tail-pieces. Original quarter green roan gilt. 144 x 95 mm. First edition thus. Front pastedown stamped: ‘J. Smith, Binder, March, 1831.’ Name on pastedown; else a very good copy.
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A PICTURE-BOOK Without Pictures. By Hans Christian Andersen. From the German translation of De La Motte Fouque by Meta Taylor.
London: David Bogue, 1847. v, [1], 88 pages. Original decorative cloth. Octavo. First English edition. Very slight bumping to corners and head & heel of spine; slight browning of title with a few very small marks; else a handsome copy. This ttile is extremely difficult to find in fine condition in its original binding. 'The moon describes to a painter thirty picturesque scenes, 'observed in her silent passage across the sky.' 'Sketch what I relate to you,' said the moon.. and you will have a pretty picture-book.' Osborne 858.
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A POCKET ENCYCLOPEDIA; or, library of general knowledge: being a dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature. Compiled from the best authorities by Edward-Augustus Kendall. In six volumes.
London: W. Peacock… J. Wallis…. J. Harris, 1802. Six volumes bound as three. Engraved frontispiece to volume I. Bound in full calf recently handsomely re-backed with blind and gilt decoration and twin labels. A very nice set. Moon 444(1).
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A PRESENT FOR CHILDREN. Price One Halfpenny.
York: Richard Burdekin, No date [circa 1830]. 12 pages. including self-wrappers. 84 x 56 mm. Illustrated with twelve woodcuts. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy. Richard Burdekin’s chapbooks are rarely found. We have been able to trace only a single copy of this title, in the Pierpont Morgan Library. See Alderson, Be Merry and Wise, item 284.
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A PRESENT FOR THE YOUNG CURIOUS.
London: Harvey and Darton, No date [circa 1820's- 30's?]. 72 pages. Illustrated with 24 engraved plates, dated 1815, of which two are full-page, the remainder bearing two images per page. Contemporary cloth gilt. 14.5 x 9.5 cm. Gift and ownerships inscriptions and stamps on endpapers; erased pencilled date of 1824 at foot of title; one signature a little proud; paper label with manuscript title on upper board; else a very good copy. Darton G780., but not that edition, his example having a longer title. The first edition was issued in 1824, the plates having been acquired from the publisher Nathaniel Hailes in whose 2nd edition of John Rippingham's Natural history according the Linnaean system they had previously appeared.
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A Pretty Book of Pictures for the Little Masters and Misses, or, Tommy Trip's History of Beasts and Birds With a Familiar Description of Each in Verse and Prose. To which is prefix'd, The History of Little TOM TRIP Himself, of his Dog JOULER, and of WOGLOG the great Giant. Written by Oliver Goldsmith for John Newbery, “the Philanthropic Bookseller of St. Paul’s Church yard.” The fifteenth edition. Embellished with Charming Engravings of Wood from the Original Blocks engraved by Thomas Bewick, for T. Saint of Newcastle in 1779. With the History, Adventures and Seclusion of the said Blocks for nearly 100 Years set forth in a Preface by the publishers.
London: Printed for, and published by, Edwin Pearson, 1867. xvi, 124 pages. Illustrated with seventy-seven mounted wood-engravings. Bound contemporary quarter morocco gilt over cloth. 220 x 175 mm. One of a limited edition of 250 copies. Some very occasional light spotting; three bookplates to front pastedown; spine a little rubbed at head & heel; else a very good copy.
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A PRETTY BOOK OF PICTURES for the Little Masters and Misses, or, Tommy Trip's History of Beasts and Birds With a Familiar Description of Each in Verse and Prose. To which is prefix'd, The History of Little TOM TRIP Himself, of his Dog JOULER, and of WOGLOG the great Giant. Written by Oliver Goldsmith for John Newbery, “the Philanthropic Bookseller of St. Paul’s Church yard.” The fifteenth edition. Embellished with Charming Engravings of Wood from the Original Blocks engraved by Thomas Bewick, for T. Saint of Newcastle in 1779. With the History, Adventures and Seclusion of the said Blocks for nearly 100 Years set forth in a Preface by the publishers.
London: Printed for, and published by, Edwin Pearson, 1867. xvi, 124 pages. Illustrated with seventy-seven mounted wood-engravings. Bound in recent quarter morocco gilt over marbled paper-covered boards. 220 x 175 mm. One of a limited edition of 250 copies. Some very occasional light patches of foxing; else a very good and handsome copy
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A Pretty Book of Pictures for the Little Masters and Misses, or, Tommy Trip's History of Beasts and Birds With a Familiar Description of Each in Verse and Prose. To which is prefix'd, The History of Little TOM TRIP Himself, of his Dog JOULER, and of WOGLOG the great Giant. Written by Oliver Goldsmith for John Newbery, “the Philanthropic Bookseller of St. Paul’s Church yard.” The fifteenth edition. Embellished with Charming Engravings of Wood from the Original Blocks engraved by Thomas Bewick, for T. Saint of Newcastle in 1779. With the History, Adventures and Seclusion of the said Blocks for nearly 100 Years set forth in a Preface by the publishers.
London: Printed for, and published by, Edwin Pearson, 1867. xvi, 124 pages. Illustrated with seventy-seven mounted wood-engravings. Bound in twentieth century quarter morocco gilt over marbled boards. 220 x 175 mm. One of a limited edition of 250 copies. Small faint water stain at top of gutter; some very light and occasional spotting; else a handsome copy.
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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 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 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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