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THE PRESENT; or, Child's Pleasing Companion. Embellished with beautiful engravings.
London: Howard and Evans, Long Lane, West Smithfield, No date[ between 1800 and 1811]. [36] pages including outer pastedown wrappers. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and 6 other woodcuts. Original marbled paper wrappers with pink paper spine. 10.6 x 6.7 cm. One leaf trimmed very close, just touching text; little worn at corners; else a good copy. Rare. No copy located.
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The Pretty and Entertaining HISTORY OF TOM THUMB, with His wonderful Escape from the Cow's Belly. Adorned with Wood Cuts. Price One Penny.
Otley: W[illiam]. Walker, No date [circa 1830]. 16 pages including pastedown wrappers. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Original wrappers with cuts to both panels. 10.2 x 6.6 cm. A very good copy.
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The Pretty and Entertaining HISTORY OF TOM THUMB, with His wonderful Escape from the Cow's Belly. Adorned with Wood Cuts. Price One Penny.
Otley: W. Walker, No date [circa 1830]. 16 pages including pastedown wrappers. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and 9 woodcuts. Original wrappers with cuts to both panels. 10.1 x 6.5 cm. Rub of lower wrapper resulting in the loss of some of the printed image; else a very good copy.
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THE PRETTY STORY BOOK, or Rational Tales. Embellished with Wood Cuts. Price One Halfpenny.
York: R. Burdekin, No date [circa 1820’s]. 16 pages, including self-wrappers. Illustrated with four woodcuts. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy. Richard Burdekin’s chapbooks are rarely found. We have been able to trace only one copy of this title, held at Brown University in the United States.
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THE PRINCESS AND THE CURDIE. With eleven illustrations by James Allen. London.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. vi, 255, [1 blank], 32 ad’s date July 1882, pages. First edition. Bound in full green morocco with elaborate gilt decoration to the spine and upper board. The original cloth spine and upper panel bound in at end. All edges gilt. Contained in a Folding cloth box. Octavo. The binding in stamped on the inner turnover of the leather. ‘RWD & PWD.’ A very good, clean copy
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THE PRIZE for Girls and Boys.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton, & Co, 1895. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 164 pages. Illustrated with coloured chromolithograph frontispiece, and 12 other full-page chromo's, plus numerous black & white. Original decorative cloth, gilt. 23.5 x 17.5 cm A very good copy.
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THE PRIZE FOR YOUTHFUL OBEDIENCE. Part I.
London: Darton and Harvey, 1803. Unpaged. Illustrated with copper-engraved vignette on title, and 16 engravings within the text. Original printed wrappers. Lacking front and rear endpapers; scribble on pastedowns; spine 'invisibly' taped; else a very good copy of a rare book. Lawrence Darton's copy with his bookplate. Darton G787(4). First published in 1800.
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THE PROGRESS OF MAN AND SOCIETY; From the Cradle to the Grave and from Infancy of Things to their present state. For the Use of Schools.
Bath: Printed by J. Browne and Sold by J. Souter., No. 1 Paternoster-Row, London, No date [1810]. 258 pages, [2 index], [4 ad’s pages. illustrated throughout with woodcuts by John Bewick. Contemporary plain brown cloth. 12mo in sixes. Couple of shorts tears to fore-edges; else a very good copy of a scarce reprint. First published by Trusler in 1791 at his Literary=Press.
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THE PROMISED VISIT: including an account of the various Methods of Manufacturing Paper in Different Countries. To which are annexed, Fifty Questions, with a view to impress the subject of the youthful mind. By the Author of “The Dew-Drop.”
London: Harvey and Darton, 1821. [2], 103 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original quarter green sheep gilt over marbled boards. 145 x 95 mm. Name torn from the head of the title-page with the loss of the word ‘The’; spine expertly repaired; boards a little rubbed and worn; else a very good clean copy. See Darton G643(3). First published in 1818. .
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THE PROSE MORALIST, consisting of selections and extracts from the most eminent authors, for the use of young persons. By the Author of the Poetical Moralist. Third edition.
Winchester: Printed by James Robins, College-street; Sold by him, and also by James Wallis, No. 18, Newgate-street, London, 1815. 180 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original quarter roan gilt over marbled boards. 139 x 93mm. Inscribed on front pastedown: ‘From Papa to his dear little Boy John Jervis Carnegie. Chiltenham, August 16th 1815.’ Small loss of leather at head & heel of spine; else a very good copy. John Jervis Carnegie was the son of Admiral William Carnegie and Mary Ricketts.
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THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
London: Chatto and Windus: No date [1886]. 58 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original pictorial buckram. All edges gilt. 22x 16.5 cm. First edition. Couple of marks on lower cover, else a very good copy.
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THE RATIONAL EXHIBITION. Price one Shilling.
London: Darton & Harvey, No date [1806]. [3] 4-60 pages. Engraved title-page showing a scene from a Dame School, and 22 other fine wood-engravings throughout the text. Original printed semi-stiff buff wraps. 12mo. Tiny burn-hole in pages 3 and 4, not affecting text; front endpaper loosening; else an excellent copy. Probably compiled and illustrated by William Darton, and first published circa 1800. G228(3).
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THE RED BOOK. By the author of “Little Henry and his Bearer.”
London: Religious Tract Society, No date [early 1830’s]. 36 pages. Engraved frontispiece and engravings within the text. Contemporary quarter red sheep gilt over marbled wrappers. 142 x 94 mm. Spine a little worn; else a very good copy.
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THE RED SHOES. And other Stories. Translated by H. W. Dulcken. Illustrated with sixteen pictures. The Hans Andersen Library for the Young.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [circa 1870's]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 119, [5 ad's] pages. Colour frontispiece. Original decorative cloth, gilt. Fcap octavo. Ownership name: 'Royal Victoria Hospital' on front endpaper; old soft crease in title; short tear to one ad' leaf; head & heel of spine a little worn; else a good plus copy.
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THE REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF AN OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG. An Ancient Tale in a Modern Dress.
London: John Harris, No date [watermarked 1827]. Title and 16 leaves, all printed on one side only. 16 hand-coloured engravings with text beneath. Lacks original printed wrappers. First edition. Marjorie Moon’s copy, in wrapper made and titled by her, with her bookplate to the verso of the front wrapper. A very good copy. See Moon 708(1).
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THE REMARKABLE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. Splendidly Illustrated and Magnificently Illuminated by The Son of a Genius. Drawn on stone by H. G. Hine.
London: Grant & Griffith, No date [1854]. 12 leaves, each lithographed on one side only and coloured by hand. Original decorative leather-backed semi-stiff wrappers. Oblong 4to. 166 x 260 mm. First edition thus. Some marking and soiling; covers have some old crease marks; but a very good copy of this wonderfully illustrated and rare book. Henry George Hine (1811-1895) was a well-known comic illustrator of the time, working for 'Punch' and 'The Illustrated London News.' He illustrated the Comic Almanack with George Cruikshank; also 'The Turkish Alphabet' by R. B. Brough. This example of the accumulative rhyme is first recorded in England in John Newbery's Nurse Truelove's New Years-Gift of 1755, although there are many examples which date from earlier times, including a Hebrew chant dating from 1590.
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THE REMARKABLE PREDICTIONS OF ROVERT NIXON, The Cheshire Prophet; including an account of the strange manner, singular life, and extraordinary death of one of the most eccentric persons that was every endowed with the gift of prophecy.
Devonport: Printed and Published by S. & J. Keys, No date [ circa 1850s/60s]. 12 pages. Original printed pictorial wrappers. 179 x 106 mm. A very good copy of a scarce provincial printing.
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The Renowned History of JACK THE GIANT KILLER. With a Coloured Engraving.
Derby: Thomas Richardson. Price Two-pence, No date [circa 1840]. 12 pages. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of two scenes. Original yellow wrappers. 13.4 x 8.9 cm. Spine expertly restored; else fine.
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The Renowned History of the SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. With a coloured engraving.
Derby: Thomas Richardson, No date [circa 1830's]. 12 pages. Hand-coloured frontispiece bearing two images. Original printed green wrappers. 14.3 x 9.2 cm. Spine splitting at foot; else very good.
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The Renowned History of the SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. With a Coloured Engraving.
Derby: Thomas Richardson. Price Two-pence, No date [circa 1840]. 12 pages. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of two scenes. Original green wrappers. 13.8 x 9 cm. Spine expertly restored; some foxing to title-page; else fine.
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