London: Dean & Son, No date [circa 1840s]. 72 pages. Illustrated throughout with wood-engravings. Original pictorial blue wrappers. Old crease-mark in corner of front wrapper/frontispiece; slight wear to foot of spine else a near fine copy.

London: John Lane. The Bodley Head, 1899. Illustrated in colour by Charles Robinson, but not acknowledged. 64 pages. Original pictorial embossed cloth by Charles Robinson. Quarto. First edition. Re-backed with the original spine laid down; a few amrks; else very good. Very scarce.

Glasgow: Published by F. Orr and Sons, No date [circa 1850]. 24 pages. Woodcut to title/wrapper, and 46 other wood-engravings. 160 x 96 mm. Front wrapper creased at lower outer corner; small paper flaw in blank margin of the last leaf; else very good. This copy has never been sewn or cut and still unfolds as a single sheet.

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1867. Fourth Edition. Printed title, preface leaf, and 36 full-page hand-coloured lithographed pages, printed on rectos only, 24 of which bear three strip illustrations, the remaining 12, have two strip illustrations. Original cloth-backed hand-coloured pictorial boards. Oblong folio. Cover rubbed and worn at corners and edges; cloth spine renewed, endpapers replaced; one leaf with a tear in the blank margin; some light marking and text-block browning; else a very good copy of this important children's book first published in Edinburgh in 1858.

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1858. Printed title, preface leaf, and 36 full-page hand-coloured lithographed pages, printed on rectos only, 24 of which bear three strip illustrations, the remaining 12, have two strip illustrations. Original cloth-backed hand-coloured pictorial boards. Oblong folio. First U. K. edition. Covers rubbed and worn at corners and edges, and dust-soiled; lacking endpapers; name on title; title and Preface leaf spotted; else a very good copy of this important children's book, the hand-coloured illustrations clean and fresh.

Derby: J. Rosewarne, No date [circa 1835/40]. [8] pages. Illustrated with 8 poorly printed/worn wood-engravings. Original printed blue wrappers with wood-engravings to both panels. 90 x 65. Unstitched as issued. Small corner loss from upper corner of front wrapper; else very good. A scarce chapbook.

Lincoln: W. Brooke, 1803. 72 pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved alphabet. Original printed boards, sometime re-backed in calf. 134 x 84 mm. A very good copy. A scarce provincial printing of this classic text.

Dublin: William Espy, 1822. 180 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, vignette on title, and 5 other full-page wood-engravings. Contemporary sheep with gilt banding. Worn at head of spine; else a very good copy.

London: Harvey and Darton, 1821. 180 pages, including a frontispiece and five other full-page wood-engravings. Original quarter green roan gilt over marbled boards. Binding: 14.3 x 9cm. Edges of binding rubbed; ownership name on endpaper; a very good copy. Darton G161 for an edition published in French in 1798 and again in 1807; this edition not mentioned.

Kettering: Joseph Toller, No date. (Circa 1830). A single sheet folded to make a bifolium with a flap. Grey card lined on the verso with printer's waste and with a text leaf laid onto it. Wood-engraving of a zebra on the flap and three other wood-engravings in the text on the verso: a woman seated at a spinning wheel; an angel guiding an infant on a raft at sea to the safety of the shore; Mother Hubbard and her dog. The text comprises upper and lower case alphabets, irregular alphabets and two and three letter words and syllables. Unfolded: 13.3 x 21.7cm. folded to 13.3 x 8.5cm. A fine copy of a scarce item..

Kettering: Joseph Toller, No date. (Circa 1830). A single sheet folded to make a bifolium with a flap. Grey card lined on the verso with printer's waste and with a text leaf laid onto it. Wood-engraving of a zebra on the flap and three other wood-engravings in the text on the verso: a man seated basket-weaving; a sorry-looking man pursued by a serpent and a goose; a herald with a proclamation. The text comprises upper and lower case alphabets, irregular alphabets and two and three letter words and syllables. Unfolded: 13.3 x 21.7cm. folded to 13.3 x 8.5cm. Neat ownership name, 'Patience' on front panel; else a fine copy of a scarce item.

Hartford: Facsimile edition published in Hartford by Mr. Ira Webster in 1850. Illustrated with woodcuts. Original roan backed plain paper-covered boards with the later addition of a pastedown of flowers emerging from a shoe to the upper panel. 115 x 85 mm. A very good, clean copy.

New-York: Samuel Wood & Sons, No date [1822/23]. 68 pages. Illustrated throughout with wood-engravings. Original semi-stiff pictorial card covers. 140 x 89 mm. A near fine copy of a very attractively produced primer.

London: Ogilvy and Son... Darton and Harvey, 1806. vii, 124, [125]-136 Appendix [woodcut illustrated list of instruments with their current prices]. Copper-engraved frontispiece and three other copper-plates, plus numerous wood-engravings within the text. Original quarter roan backed marbled boards, with paper label to spine. First edition thus [ with Appendix]. Spine a little worn and beginning to split; boards rubbed; but internally very good.

London: George Allen, 1899. 42 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Quarto; 215 x 173 mm. First edition. Name on front flyleaf; else a very good copy.

London: Griffith and Farran, 1860. [3], 21 leaves, printed on one side only; 16 pages. publishers catalogue at end. Illustrated with frontispiece, pictorial title and 21 other illustrations all coloured by hand. Original red pictorial cloth gilt. 18.8 x 14.3 cm. First edition. Slight wear to corners; spine rubbed and worn at head and heel and with a small repaired split; else a very good clean copy. Necker 146.

London: Howard and Evans, No date. [between 1800 and 1811.]. [36] pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and four other full-page wood-engravings. Original pastedown marbled paper wrappers. Little tired; corners a little turned; some light water-staining; blank corner lost from last leaf; else a very good copy of a rare title. No copy located in WorldCat.

London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [circa 1870's]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 120, [4 ad's] pages. Colour frontispiece. Original decorative green cloth, gilt. Fcap octavo. Ownership name: 'Royal Victoria Hospital' on front endpaper; endpapers a little foxed; else a very good copy.