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THE PICKLETONS Their Astonishing Adventures. Told & Drawn by Ingles Rhode.
London: Dean & Son Limited, No date [1899]. With 22 full-page colour plates. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Oblong: 25 x 32.2 cm. First edition. A very good copy.
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THE PICTURE ALPHABET; or, Child’s A, B, C. Seventh Series -- No. 1.
Portland: Bailey & Noyes, No date [circa 1860’s]. 16 pages. Alphabet illustrated with small woodcuts. Original wrappers with a small cut to the upper panel, and two to the lower. 100 x 65 mm. A very good copy of this chapbook alphabet.
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THE PICTURE BOOK FOR THE YOUNG by Mary Howitt.
London: Sampson Low and Son, 47, Ludgate Hill, No date [1855]. Half-title: PICTURE BOOK FOR THE YOUNG with text by Mary Howitt. Designed to amuse and assist the young in Drawing and Colouring. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 20 hand-coloured lithographs by E. Morin [including half-title]. Original red cloth gilt. All edges gilt. 218 x 190 mm. New spine and endpapers; one plate has small loss to two edges where previously loose; else very good.
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THE PICTURE BOOK. Illustrated with 12 woodcuts. Price One Halfpenny.
York: R. Burdekin, No date [circa 1830]. 12 pages, including self-wrappers. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy. Richard Burdekin’s chapbooks are rarely found and we can locate no copies of this title.
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THE PICTURE OF ENGLAND; or, Historical Delineations of the Most Curious Works of Nature and Art in Each County: Calculated as an Agreeable Companion to the Tourist, or a Class Book for the Student. Illustrated with upwards of Two Hundred and Fifty Engravings: consisting of Views of Ancient Castles, Cathedrals, Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Seats, &c. By J. N. Brewer, Author of “Introduction to the Beauties of England,” and Descriptions of several Counties in that elaborate Work.
London: Harris and Son…, 1820. Two vol’s. Vol. I: ix, [3], 383, [1 blank], [12 Index] pages. Illustrated with 129 views on 43 engraved plates. Vol. II: [iv], 416, [12 Index} pages. Illustrated with 123 views on 41 engraved plates. Bound in half sheep gilt over marbled boards. 12mo. Volume II cracking at the lower joint at base of spine; else an excellent, clean set. Moon 63. .
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THE PICTURE SHOW. A Novel Picture Book for Children.
London: Ernest Nister, No date [circa 1895]. [28] pages, including four double-page, full colour pop-up scenes, all in excellent working order. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 247 x 200 mm. Gift inscription on endpaper for ‘Xmas ’95’; boards a little worn and scratched; lower outer corner of front board bumped; else a very good copy with all pop-ups working excellently.
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The Pleasant and Delightful HISTORY OF JACK and the GIANTS. Parts the First and second.
Nottingham: Printed for the Running Stationers, No date [circa 1800]. Each part 12 pages. Each with a word cut to the cover/title and cuts within the text. 12mo. Approx: 165 x 92 mm. An excellent set.
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THE PLEASANT TALE OF PUSS AND ROBIN; and their friends, Kitty and Bob. Told in Pictures by L. Frölich, and in Rhymes by Tom Hood.
London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1871. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 29[30], [1 ad'] pages. Illustrated in black & white. Original red pictorial boards, gilt. 4to. First edition. Little worn at head & heel of spine; covers very lightly soiled; inscription on blank recto of frontispiece. A very good copy.
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THE PLEASANT TALE OF PUSS AND ROBIN; and their friends, Kitty and Bob. Told in Pictures by L. Frölich, and in Rhymes by Tom Hood.
London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1871. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 29[30], [1 ad'] pages. Illustrated in black & white. Original red pictorial boards, gilt. 4to. First edition. Little worn at head & heel of spine; covers very lightly soiled; small bookplate; else a very good copy.
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THE PLEASANT VERSE & PROSE COLd PICTURE STORY BOOK.
LONDON: No date [circa 1850. Salesman’s sample book for Thos. Dean and Son. THE PLEASANT VERSE & PROSE COLd PICTURE STORY BOOK. Edited by Mrs. C. Butler. Being series the third of the Cold Nursery Picture Every Day Book. London. Thos Dean & Son., Threadneedle Street. No date [circa 1850]. Hand-coloured frontispiece; hand-coloured pictorial title-page and two other full-page hand-coloured engravings; and two pages of text, being pages 8 & 21. Original blind-stamped green cloth, with a gilt title to the front board: The Pleasant Verse and Prose Story Book, and to the rear board: The Pleasant Story Book. 178 x 138 mm. Inscribed in ink on the front pastedown: ‘New Cold 1/6 Childrens Books Trade 13 at 12 at 1/1 4 different. A fine example.
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The Pleasing and Renowned History of Dick Whittington, Who was afterwards Lord Mayor of London: With the surprising Adventures of his Cat. Price One Penny.
Banbury: J. G. Rusher, No date [circa 1835]. 16 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and 4 small woodcuts within the text. Original printed wrappers with woodcuts to both panels. There are also two small cuts to the recto of the frontispiece. A very nice copy. Necker 599 [58].
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THE PLEASING COMPANION, containing the Renowned History of Little Red Riding-Hood. A Tale. Price One Halfpenny
York: R. Burdekin, No date [circa 1820’s]. 16 pages, including self-wrappers. Illustrated with six woodcuts. Original printed wrappers. 8.3 x 5.7 cm. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy.
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THE PLEASING INSTRUCTER.
Derby: T(homas) Richardson, No date [circa 1830]. 12 pages., including wrappers. 83 x 53 mm. Illustrated with ten small woodcuts, and a cut to both upper and lower wraps. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy. No copies found in Copac.
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The Pleasing, Interesting, and Affecting History of Prince Lee Boo: with an account of the Pelew Islands. Embellished with elegant Copper-plates.
London: William Darton, Jun, 1816. Price One Shilling. 72 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and three other full-page engraved plates. Original printed wrappers. 136 x 88 mm. First edition thus. Tiny blank corner missing from frontispiece; some offsetting to the title; spine a little worn; else a very good copy. Scarce. See H943. This was Marjorie Moon’s copy and bears who bookplate to the verso of the front wrapper.
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The Pleasing, Interesting, and Affecting History of Prince Lee Boo: with an account of the Pelew Islands. Embellished with elegant Copper-plates.
London: William Darton, Jun, 1816. Price One Shilling. 72 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and three other full-page engraved plates. Original printed wrappers. 136 x 88 mm. First edition thus. Wrappers rubbed and worn; ownership name and address on recto of frontispiece; printed ownership name to head of wrapper and title; else a good plus copy. Scarce. See H943.
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THE POET & THE BROOK: a Tale of Transformations. Written by J. H. Ewing: depicted by R. Andre [William Roger Snow].
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, No date [circa 1883]. 32 pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong: 16 x 18.3 cm. First edition. Sometime nicely re-backed in cloth, and the endpapers replaced; corners a little knocked; else a very good copy.
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The Poet & the Brook: A Tale of Transformations. 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 a worn with small loss to the head & heel; else a very good copy.
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THE POLITE LITTLE CHILDREN. By Mrs Cameron. A New Edition.
London: Houlston and Stoneman, No date [ circa late 1820's]. Softcover. 36 pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece; vignette on title, and 5 other wood-engraved plates. Original printed semi-stiff. 13.7 x 9.2 cm spine neatly taped with silk; else a very good copy. Mrs Cameron was the sister of Mrs Sherwood.
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The Popular Tale of BLUEBEARD, or Female Curiosity.
Devonport: Samuel and John keys, No date [circa 1840]. 12 pages. Illustrated with five woodcuts. Original printed blue wrappers, with a woodcut to the upper panel and another to the lower. 178 x 105 mm. A fine copy of a scarce provincial printing.
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THE POSTMAN’S BAG and other stories. Illustrated by Pettie, Alfred W. Cooper, W. Mactaggart, R. T. Ross, W. P Burton, and others.
Edinburgh: Alexander Strahan and Co. Hamilton, Adams, and Co., London, 1862. v, 194, [2 ad’s] pages. Illustrated with 16 full-page plates. Original cloth decorated in blind and with gilt titling. Octavo. First edition. One gather a little proud; spine. A little mellowed; else an excellent copy.
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