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THE OLD CHURCH BELL. And other Stories. Translated by H. W. Dulcken. Illustrated with fourteen pictures. The Hans Andersen Library for the Young.
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.
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THE OLD CORNISH WOMAN. Aunt Mavor's Picture Books for Little Readers.
London: George Routledge & Co, No date [1850's]. 8 leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated with eight coloured engravings. Original pictorial coloured wrappers. 25 x 17.8 cm. Covers a little worn; couple of short marginal tears; spine expertly restored; else a very good copy. After an exhausting trip the little old woman finally make it to the Great Exhibition.
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THE OLD COURTIER. Price Sixpence; or Mounted on Linen, One Shilling.
London: George Routledge & Sons, No date [circa 1876]. [8] leavesach printed on one side only, the first and last being pasted to the wrappers as issued, each bearing both coloured illustrations and text. Original pictorial wrappers. 247 x 185 mm. Spine expertly repaired; little bumped and creased at top outer corner; stitching a little slack; else a very good copy of one of Crane’s scarcer toy books. This title was first issued in 1867. It is number 62 from a list of 117 titles on the rear cover.
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THE OLD FAVOURITE TALES with coloured pictures.
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THE OLD WOMAN AND HER SILVER PENNY.
London: Dean and Son, No date [circa 1858]. [6] leaves, the last a pastedown to the wrappers, each bearing one or more hand-coloured engravings with text. Original pictorial wrappers. The pastedown to the front wrapper is a page of ad's. Spine expertly restored; else a very good copy
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THE ONLY SURE GUIDE TO THE ENGLISH TONGUE, Or New Pronouncing Spelling Book. Upon the same plan as Perry’s Royal Standard English Dictionary. To which is added, A Large Collection of Moral Tales and Fables, Lessons in Reading, & c. For the Instruction of Youth. Together with a Geographical Sketch of The United States. With an Appendix… Second Brookfield Edition.
Brookfield: E. Merriam & Co, 1819. Pastedown engraved frontispiece; wood-engravings in the text. 168 pages. Original sheep-backed paper-covered boards. 16 x10.7cm. Browning throughout; else a very good copy. Label of Westborough Historical Society on rear endpaper; two collection paper labels to spine.
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THE ORPHAN BOY; or, a Journey to Bath: to which is added, The Orphan Girl. Founded on Facts. By Mary Belson. A New Edition.
London: W. Darton, 1818. Price Two Shillings. 119 text; 120-126 ad’s pages. Engraved frontispiece and one other engraved plate. Original quarter red roan gilt over marbled boards. 144 x 92 mm. Boards rubbed and worn at corners; name on endpaper; few light spots; else a very good copy. Moon 254. First published 1812.
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THE ORPHAN GIRL; A Moral Tale, found on facts. By Mary Robson, Author of “Ornaments Discovered,” &c. &c.
London: William Darton, 1819. 135, [1 blank,] [9 ad’s] pages. Engraved frontispiece and two other full-page engraved plates. Original paper-covered boards recently re-backed in red sheep gilt. 146 x 94 mm. First edition. Name on pastedown; boards very rubbed and worn; else a very good copy. ‘Unlike most of Mary Hughes’s writings… with their middle-class settings this book is about the poor. It includes… a convincing account of the workings of the ‘public’ school in a mining area at which Mary, the orphan, is procured a place...’ Mrs. Moon H771.
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THE PARENT’S GIFT. No. VIII. – One Halfpenny.
Alnwick: W. Davison, No date [circa 1825]. 16 pages., including wrappers. Illustrated with ten woodcuts, and a cut to both upper and lower wrapper. 83 x 58 mm. Spine expertly restored; else an excellent copy. Rare. No copy located.
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THE PASSIONATE BOY; Or, William and his Dog: together with the story of Richard Price. Embellished with neat engravings.
London: Dean and Munday, Threadneedle Street, No date [circa 1830s]. Price Threepence. 24 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece; an engraved vignette on title, and nine wood-engravings within the text. Original printed wrappers with wood-engravings to both panels. 117 x 78 mm. Spine splitting at heel; else a very good copy.
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THE PATHS OF LEARNING STREWED WITH FLOWERS or English Grammar Illustrated.
London: Harris and Son, 1820. 16 leaves, including title, each having a hand-coloured engraving and text. Original printed stiff wrappers. This copy has the original boards (the rear pastedown bears a list of Harris’s books, but unusually is bound in Dutch floral paper, perhaps because this is a very late printing, the paper being watermarked 1832. 171 x 106 mm. The running page numbers are partly cropped; else a near fine copy.
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THE PEACOCK "AT HOME" A sequel to the Butterfly's Ball. Written by a Lady. A Facsimile reproduction of the edition of 1807 with an introduction by Charles Welsh.
London: Griffin & Farran, 1883. Softback. x, 16 pages of text, 6 full-page illustrations, printed on one side of the paper only. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers rather tatty at edges, spine and corners; gift inscription to head of title dated 1887; some wear to corners of title-page; some light foxing here & there throughout; else a very good copy.
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THE PEACOCK “AT HOME:” A sequel to the Butterfly’s Ball. Written by a Lady. Illustrated with elegant engravings.
London: John Harris, 1807. 16 pages. Illustrated with 6 hand-coloured engraved plates after William Mulready. Original blue printed wrappers. 126 x 105 mm. First edition. Inscription on front pastedown: ‘Elizabeth Nares Dec. 4 1807.’ Some occasional light browning; else a very good, fresh copy. Moon 214(1A).
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THE PEACOCK “AT HOME:” a sequel to the Butterfly’s Ball. Written by a Lady. The Twenty-seventh edition, with notes.
London: J. Harris, 1815. 16 pages. Illustrated with 8 hand-coloured engravings. Lacks original wrappers. Bound in recent quarter reed roan gilt over marbled boards with vellum tips. 128 x 102 mm. A very good copy. See Moon 215(6).
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THE PEACOCK “AT HOME.” By a Lady. Twenty-second edition. The Butterfly’s Ball; an original poem by Mr. Roscoe. And Fancy Fair; or Grand Gala at the Zoological Gardens.
London: Grant and Griffith, successors to John Harris…, 1844. 43, [1], [4 ad’s] pages. Illustrated with 12 hand-coloured engravings. Original printed stiff wrappers with engraved vignette to upper panel. 178 x 109 mm. A very good copy. See Moon 214, final item.
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THE PEACOCK AT HOME, By Mrs. Dorset, (Sister of the late Mrs. Charlotte Smith.) Illustrated and Illuminated by Her Grand Niece Mrs. W. Warde.
London: Joseph Cundall, 1849. 12 leaves of stiff card, printed on one side only in red and black. Borders finely hand-coloured on lithographic outlines. Printed at The Chiswick Press. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, gilt. First edition thus. Inner joints repaired; boards a little worn; else a very good copy. The hand-colouring is quite exceptional. McClean., Joseph Cundall A Victorian Publisher, page 69 (twice illustrated).
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THE PENTAMERONE or The Story of Stories. Translated from the Neapolitan by John Edward Taylor. New edition revised and edited by Helen Zimmern. With illustrations by George Cruikshank.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. xii, [2], 218 + 6pp. ad's. 13 full-page black & white plates. Original patterned cloth. Patterned fore-edges. Small octavo. First edition in The Children's Library series. Bookplate; corner of outer corner of front fly-leaf repaired with similar but not identical paper. Spine a little rubbed, faded and worn; inscription dated 1898 on second endpaper; else a very good, clean copy.
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THE PERSIAN TALES; containing, I. The History of Colouse, Son of Abdallah,Merchant of Damas, and the beautiful Dilara, daughter of Boyruc, a Kerait Grandee. II. The History of Prince Mirgehan, Son of Cabal Can, king of the Keraites. III. The History of Taher, son of Mouzaffer, merchant of Samarcande. IV. The history of Usbec Can, King of Tartary. V. The History of Prince Calaf, son of Timurtasch, Can of the Nogais Tartars, and the princess of China. VI. The History of Prince Fadlallah, son of Bin-Ortoc, King of Mousel, and Zemroude, daughter of Mouaffac, Governor of Baghdad. Part II.
London: Printed and Sold by Sabine and Son., Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, No date [circa 1808]. 95, [1 ad’s] pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece and two cuts within the text. Original plain blue wrappers. 180 x 105 mm. Pages cut unevenly; little turned at corners; else a very good copy. Rare. Worldcat list a complete copy of both parts in the British Library, and two copies of Part Ii only.
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THE PET LAMB and other pieces.
Derby: Thomas Richardson, No date [circa 1830 and inscribed 1836]. 12 pages. Illustrated with five small woodcuts. Original printed pictorial wrappers. 142 x 90 mm. Ownership name and address on blank verso of front wrapper. A very good copy.
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THE PETS.
London: F. Warne & Co,, Bedford Street., Covent Garden, No date [circa 1880]. [8] leaves, including wrappers, printed on one side only, and each bearing a coloured wood-engraving with verses beneath. 152 x 107 mm. A very good copy.
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