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UNCLE REMUS or, Mr. Fox, Mr Rabbit, Mr. Terrapin.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1881. 190 pages. Contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards. Small octavo. 166 x 108 mm. First U.K. edition. Some light foxing to title and to endpapers; indelible ownership stamp to title; else very good. This would appear to be rather scarce.
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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. Adapted for Young Persons. With eight illustrations.
London: George Routledge and Co, 1853. 8 [ad's], engraved frontispiece, [4], 404, 32 [ad's] pages. 8 engraved plates. Original pictorial cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Octavo. 16.8 x 11.5 cm. First edition. And adaptation for young readers of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous work, first published in 1852. Some blotching of the cloth; slight wear to the binding; but a very good copy of this scarce adaptation for children.
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Uncle Tom’s Treasury. GOOD BOY’S PICTURE BOOK.
Leeds: Webb, Millington, and Co, No date [circa 1858]. [8] leaves, printed on one aide only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued. Each leaf beats a hand-coloured engraving of a sport with a verse beneath. Original pictorial printed wrappers, bearing the price ‘threepence’ in four places; the lower wrapper bearing an advert’s for books from the publisher. 186 x 138 mm. Wrappers a little worn and lightly dust-soiled; else a very good copy.
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UNDER THE WILLOW TREE. 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. 118, [6 ad's] pages. Colour frontispiece. Original decorative blue cloth, gilt. Fcap octavo. Ownership name: 'Royal Victoria Hospital' on front endpaper; else a very good copy.
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VALENTINE AND ORSON. Walter Crane's Toy Books. New Series. Price Six pence; or mounted on linen, One Shilling.
London: George Routledge & Sons, No date [circa 1874]. [8] leaves, the first and last mounted as pastedowns to the wrappers, each with an illustration in full colour with inset verse. Original pictorial series wrappers. 24.5 x 18.7 cm. Spine expertly restored; else a very good/fine copy
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VALENTINE & ORSON.
[London.]: No imprint, but J. March, Pr. Waterloo Road, No date, but circa 1860s. 8 pages, including wrappers. Colour printed pictorial title/front wrapper and six other coloured wood-engravings. 173 x 110 mm. Not stitched, but folded as an uncut sheet. A very good copy.
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VANISHING PICTURES. A Novel Colour Book with Changing Pictures.
London: Ernest Nister. New York. E. P. Dutton & Co, No date [circa 1895-1900]. Title and [9] pages of illustrated text, and 6 full-colour circular changing pictures operated by ribbons pulls. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 230 x 223 mm. Some occasional light spotting; small red mark on front panel; else a very good copy with all of the moveable pictures in excellent working order. [
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VICISSITUDE: or the Life and Adventures of Ned Frolic. An original Comic Song. For the Entertainment of All Good Boys and Girls in the British Empire.
Glasgow: J. Lumsden & Son, 1818. 16 pages. Illustrated with 4 hand-coloured engraved plates, three of which have multiple images. Original plain wrappers. 138 x 88 mm. Some light off-setting as is usual with this title; small blank corner lost from front wrapper; spine expertly restored; else a very copy of one of the most attractive productions of the Lumsden publishing house. Roscoe and Brimmell 22.
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VIEWS OF THE PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS IN LONDON, With an Account of the Curiosities they contain. For the Juvenile; or Child’s Library.
London: John Marshall. No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, Cheapside, (1800.). 2 volumes. Volume 1: 72 pages. 10 full-page engraved views. Volume 2: 60 pages. 5 engraved views. Original paper-covered boards with mounted and shaped paper labels to both upper and lower covers. Spines expertly repaired; else excellent examples of these rare little volumes. The Juvenile; or Child’s Library, is one of the rarest and most ambitious boxed libraries fashionable at this time. It contained 21 volumes in all. All of the titles could be purchased separately.
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VILLAGE STORIES. Containing Charlotte and Jessy. The Little Basket Makers. Grandpapa. And The Moss Roses. By Miss Corner. With seven lithographic plates from designs by S. Williams.
London: Dean & Munday, No date [circa 1835/40]. 82 pages. 7 uncoloured litho’s. Contemporary half black calf gilt. 130 x 110 mm. First edition. Binding worn and rubbed; some light foxing here & there; else a very good copy of a scarce title.
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VOYAGES THROUGH THE NORTHERN PACIFIC OCEAN, Indian Ocean, and Chinese Sea.
Dublin: Bentham and Hardy, 1825. 178 pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece and six full-page wood-engravings. Slightly later untitled plain half-calf over marbled boards. 138 x 89 mm. Old crease to the corner of frontispiece, few light spots to title, the occasional mark, else a very good copy.
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WAGON LOAD OF GOLD.
Derby: (Thomas) Richardson, No date [circa 1830]. 12 pages., including wrappers. Illustrated with eleven small woodcuts, including a cut to lower wrap, where the text continues, and a cut to the upper cover. 85 x 53 mm. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy.
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WALKS WITH MAMMA; or Stories in words of one syllable; and instructive conversations. New and Enlarged edition.
London: John Harris, 1839. [1], 92 pages. Illustrated with eight hand-coloured engravings. Original limp cloth gilt. 177 x 109 mm. Some marking; corners a little bumped; gift inscription on title; else very good. Quite scarce. See Moon 964. An expanded version of Moon 963.
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Walter Crane’s Toy Books. New series. THE FORTY THIEVES. Price Sixpence; or Mounted on Linen, One Shilling.
London: George Routledge & Sons, No date [circa 1873]. [8] leaves, each 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. 245 x 186 mm. Probably the first edition. Very short tear in margin of last leaf/wrapper; else a very good copy. This title was first issued in 1867. It is number 104 from a list of 106 titles on the rear cover. [14963]
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WALTER WONDERMENT’S WONDERFUL TREBLE CHANGES.
London: Dean & Son, No date [coded for 1860]. [8] leaves, printed on one side only, each bearing a hand-coloured engraving with two half-page hand-coloured engraved flaps acting like those in a Harlequinade; the combination giving a choice of three different pictures. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 255 x 178 mm. Boards rubbed and worn; two of the flaps have been re-attached at some time, with some loss two the blank margins; edges of the flaps creased; else a good copy of one of the most difficult Dean moveable books to find in reasonable condition.
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WANTED - A KING; or, how Merle set the Nursery Rhymes to Rights. By Maggie Browne. With original designs by Harry Furniss.
London.Cassell & Company, Limited. 1890. [8], 183, [1], 24pp illustrated catalogue. Illustrated in line throughout. Original green pictorial cloth. gilt. Top edge gilt. Octavo. First edition. Some fox spots on endpapers and half-title; very light rubbing to head and heel of spine; else a very good, fresh, clean copy of this early 'Alice' imitation.
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Warwick House Toy Books. MASTER MOUSIE'S SUPPER PARTY Showing how when Puss is away the Mice will Play.
London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, No date [circa 1870]. 6 leaves of text, printed on one side only, and six full-page colour plates printed by Kronheim and Co. Original decorative wrappers. 26.7 x 23 cm. Spine restored; some wear to corners and edges and with a few very short tears to the blank margin of two leaves; else a very good copy. Scarce. Not in Necker.
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WATT’S DIVINE SONGS, in easy language, for the use of children.
Glasgow: Lumsden & Son, No date. (circa. 1820). 47 pages. Illustrated with wood cuts throughout printed in sanguine ink. Original plain buff wrappers with ink title on upper panel as issued. Roscoe & Brimmell 39.
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Webb’s Juvenile Drama. ROBIN HOOD and the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, a drama in two acts. Written expressly for and adapted to Webb’s Characters and Scenes in the same.
London: H. J. Webb, No date [circa 1900]. 18 pages. Original printed pink wrappers. 150 x 95mm. Spitting a base of spine; else a very good copy. £45. 00.
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Webb’s Juvenile Drama. THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE, a drama in three acts. Written expressly for, and adapted to Webb’s Characters and Scenes in the same. Price Fourpence.
London: W. Webb, No date [circa 1870’s]. Lithographed frontispiece. 18 pages. Original printed pink wrappers. 150 x 95mm. Spitting a base of spine; else a very good copy.
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