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THE RENOWNED HISTORY OF VALENTINE AND ORSON. Embellished with engravings.
London: Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School-Library, 1804. 119, 3 booklist, pages. Illustrated with five hand-coloured engraved plates. Original printed boards. 14.2 x 8.8 cm. First edition thus. Spine restored; else a very good copy. Rare, see Moon 142; she lists two copies only. This is a longer version of the story than the sixpenny edition published by Tabart. The engravings represent the principal scenes of ‘the famous Romance’ performed at the Theatre Royal Covent garden at the time of the book’s publication.
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THE RIDDLE BOOK; or, Fireside Amusements.
Derby: Thomas Richardson, No date [circa 1835]. 28 pages, including pastedown wrappers. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 23 wood-engravings throughout. Original wrappers with woodcut to upper wrap. A very good copy.
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THE RIDDLER'S RIDDLE BOOK; or a Choice Collection of Riddles. By Peter Puzzlecap, Esq. The Little Rhyming Riddler. Price One Penny.
Banbury: J. G. Rusher, No date [circa 1830]. 16 pages, the first a pastedown to the front wrapper. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. Cuts to both wrappers. Untrimmed as issued. A very good copy.
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THE ROBIN'S YULE SONG. Extracted from Chamber's Popular Rhymes of Scotland. Illustrated by W.F.F. Second edition.
London: Griffin and Farran, No date [1859]. Hardcover. 15 leaves printed on one side only, of which 6 are full-page lithographs. Original decorative paper-covered boards. Oblong: 22 x 27.5 cm. Inscribed on front endpaper: 'Julian Margaret Maitland Warrender. – from her affect'te Aunt Julian. Dec. 27th 1859.' Some browning, particularly so on the first two leaves; spine expertly restored; else a very good copy.
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THE ROCKY ISLAND, and other Parables.
London: James Burns, 1840. iv, 171, [1 ad'], 6 ad's pages. Illustrated with four plates. Original cloth gilt. 15.3 x 9.6 cm. First edition. Borders of the plates foxed; inscription on pastedown; else a very good copy of a scarce title.
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THE ROSE’S BREAKFAST. Illustrated with elegant and appropriate engravings.
London: J. Harris, 1808. 32 pages. Illustrated with eight full-page engravings. Lacks original wrappers, but bound in marbled paper with a copy of the title page mounted to the front wrapper. 1288 x 104 mm. The last two engravings have been trimmed and neatly mounted on new leaves. A scarce title. See Moon 729.
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THE ROYAL ABC with handsome large letters, and thirteen coloured engravings. Price Six-pence.
London: Dean and Munday, Threadneedle Street; and A. K. Newman, & Co. Leadenhall-Street, No date [prior to 1843]. [32] pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, hand-coloured letters to the title, and thirteen hand-coloured engravings. Original printed wrappers. 145 x 112 mm. Trifle worn at edges and head and heel of spine; else fine. One of the most attractive alphabets we have ever handled. Rare. No copy located in either Library Hub or Worldcat.
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THE ROYAL ALPHABET OF KINGS AND QUEENS.
London: Joseph Cundall, Hailes’ Juvenile Library, 1843. [28, 2 ad’s pages.] Illustrated with 24 hand-coloured wood-engravings of monarchs. Original pictorial cloth gilt. All edges gilt. First edition. Ownership inscriptions to front pastedown; small bookplate; boards a little worn at extremities; some occasional light marking; else a very good copy. McLean Page 47. Probably the second edition of 1843, rather than the first of 1841, though this is not certain.
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THE ROYAL FABULIST; A Choice Collection of Entertaining Fables. Intended as a present for all those Good Girls and Boys who behave according to th[Price One Penny.] e following Rules: That is Do as they are bid, Come when they are called, and Shut the Door after them.
Edinburgh: G. Ross, No date [circa 1815]. 20 pages, including wrappers. Illustrated with wood-engraved frontispiece on verso of front wrapper, and 15 woodcuts throughout. Original wrappers. Spine expertly repaired; little tired; else a very good copy of a rare chapbook. WorldCat lists two copies only, one in the British Library, the other in the Morgan Library. Both copies are dated 1815.
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THE RUBY RING; or, The Transformations. Second Edition.
London: N. Hailes, 1820. 64 pages. Illustrated with 8 finely hand-coloured engraved plates. Original quarter green roan, gilt. 13.2x10.8cm. Small piece missing from head of spine; some bumping of corners and rubbing of boards; inscription on endpaper; else an excellent copy, very attractively illustrated. Osborne 649 (first edition of 1815); Oppenheimer 1547 which notes that Gumuchian records a second edition of 1816. The author’s second endeavour ‘ to convey instruction and amusement, by putting a popular story into poetical dress’. The Ring of Amurath, an Oriental tale, is the source.
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THE SAD FATE OF POOR ROBIN.
New York: John McLoughlin, 1856. [16] pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with 7 full-page and one part page hand-coloured engravings. Original pictorial wrappers. 260 x 168 mm. Inscribed in pencil at the head of the first printed page, ‘Martha G. Whitney Dec. 25 1856.’ A fine copy of the first McLoughlin edition.
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THE SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY; or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature: comprising Astronomy, Geography, Mythology, Ancient History, Modern History, and Chronology. In six volumes.
London: Printed for J. Wallis, Sen… J. Wallis, Jun.; and J. Harris, 1806. Six volumes, bound as three, each with an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary full calf, gilt. Bindings: 13 x 8.3 cm. Off-setting from frontispieces; bindings a little rubbed; inscription on front endpaper of volume I reads, '3 vols: 1£/8s. Charles Hunt junr, bought these volumes at Bridlington Quay, Yorkshire: August 21: 1810.' A very good set. Moon 810. This was originally offered jointly by Wallis and Harris in a wooden box, each volume bound in quarter roan.
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THE SERVANT’S FRIEND, an Exemplary Tale designed to enforce the religious instructions given at Sunday and other Charity Schools, by pointing out the practical application of them in a state of service. A New edition. By Mrs. Trimmer.
London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1814. 118, [2 ad’s] pages. Original quarter sheep over paper-covered boards. 12mo. First published in 1786, this work remained in print for many decades. Spine cracked; else very good. years.
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THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM.
Devonport: S[amuel] and J[ohn] Keys, No date [circa 1830/40]. 12 pages. Illustrated with two woodcuts. Original wrappers with woodcut on upper panel, and ad's on lower. 17.8 x 10.6 cm. A very good copy.
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THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. Price Sixpence.
No imprint, or date, but London, circa 1830's. 16 pages, but printed on one side only; the title and the 7 printed pages, bearing hand-coloured and engravings. Original pictorial wrappers, the lower listing 28 titles in the series. 16 x 10 cm.
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THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. St. George of England. St. Denis of France. St. Andrew of Scotland. St. James of Spain. St. Patrick of Ireland. St. Anthony of Italy. St. David of Wales.
London: John Harris, No date [circa 1830]. 48 pages. Illustrated with four plates, each bearing two hand-coloured engravings. Original printed wrappers. 176 x 105 mm. Spine repaired; covers a little rubbed and dust-soiled; else a very good copy. A quite uncommon title in Harris’s ‘Cabinet.’ See Moon 413(2).
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THE SEVERAL STAGES OF HUMAN LIFE, from the Cradle to the Tomb. With appropriate Engravings.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. [Price Sixpence.] 35, [1 blank] pages Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, vignette on title, and 16 other wood-engravings. Original printed wrappers with woodcuts to both panels. 140 x 90 mm. Wrappers worn and rubbed; some occasional marking, else a very good copy of a scarce title. Copac lists two copies only.
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THE SHELLS OF MARGATE, RAMSGATE, & BROADSTAIRS, with figures of nearly all the species. Price One Shilling.
Published by R. C. Osborne, Margate. Sackett & Fuller, Ramsgate. Fowler, Ramsgate. Barnes, Broadstairs, No date [circa 1840]. 28 [1] pages. Illustrated with 35 engravings within the text. Original wrappers. 133 x 105 mm. Price crossed through on cover, with a reduced price of 6d in ink on cover/title; couple of inconsequential doodles on wrapper/title; one manuscript amendment to text; else a very good copy of a rare Conchology book designed for children. One copy only located in the Natural History Museum Library.
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THE SHOES OF FORTUNE, and Other Tales. By Hans Christian Anderson. With four drawings by Otto Speckter, and other illustrations.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1847 (that is, December 1846). [vi]+168 pages. Illustrated with tinted lithographic frontispiece and three other lithographs by Otto Speckter, additional to pagination; and, many wood engraved pictorial initials and tailpieces. Original publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. 12mo. First English edition. Front endpaper cracked and with evidence of repair; some occasional light marking; else an excellent copy. Includes the original printings in English of ‘The Fir Tree’, ‘The Snow Queen’,and ‘The Red Shoes’. The ten stories are followed by a chapter on ‘The Emperor Frederic Barbarossa’, by the translator Charles Boner.
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THE SILVER PENNY, for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children.
York: J. Kendrew, No date [circa 1830]. [32] pages the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated with a pastedown frontispiece and 24 woodcuts illustrating the letters of the alphabet, plus one tail-piece. Original wrappers with two cuts to the upper panel and one to the lower. 100 x 63 mm. A fine copy.
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