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WHAT BECAME OF THEM? Pictured by A. M. Lockyer.
London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, No date [circa 1880s]. Cover title: WHAT BECAME OF THEM? And THE CONCEITED LITTLE PIG By G. Boare. [16] pages. Illustrated throughout. Original pictorial card covers. Oblong: 127 x 189 mm. A fine copy85. 00.
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WHAT THE BLACKBIRD SAID. A Story in Four Chirps. By Mrs. Frederick Locker. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1881. [viii], 88 pages. Illustrated in Black & white. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Quarto: 215 x173 mm. First edition. Slight wear to head & heel of spine and corners of boards, and a tiny split in the middle of the spine [4 mm [1/4 inch]]; front inner joint showing signs of cracking; else very good.
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WHAT TRADE SHALL I BE? A Familiar Introduction to the Arts of Life and Society. In the form of dialogues.
London: Edward Lacey, No date [Circa 1835-40]. 72 pages. 4 engraved plates. Original quarter green roan gilt over pictorial paper-covered boards. 145 x 94. Probably the first edition. Boards a little rubbed and worn; spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy of a scarce juvenile. The story concerns the emigration of a devoutly Methodist family from London to Quebec, Canada. During long voyage the mother educates the children of the family with daily lessons.
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WHAT UNCLE TOLD US about 1. PATTY; or, The Bee and The Butterfly. 2. NIPKIN AND THE YULE LOG; or, A Charity Lesson. 3. PETER AND THE SNOW KING. 4. INTEMPERANCE; or, The Prince and the Water Fay. 5. The red man; OR, The magic of Kindness. 6. WILHELM; or, Patience and Perseverance. With coloured illustrations by Alfred Crowquill.
London: Henry Lea, No date [1871]. 190 pages. Handc-coloured pictorial half-title and six hand-coloured plates. Original pictorial boards, sometime re-backed in red calf gilt with a black gilt label, new endpapers. 173 x 135 mm. First edition. Last leaf frayed at froe-edge; boards rubbed and gilt faded; bookplate; else a very good copy of a scarce collection of fairy tales.
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WHAT WE SEE IN THE COUNTRY. By the Author of “Chickseed without Chickweed,” “Plain Things for Little Folks,” “Early Seeds,” “Papa’s Stories,” &c. &c. &c.
London: Darton & Co, 1852. 63 pages. With 8 hand-coloured engravings by Barfoot. Original flexible cloth gilt covers. 133 x 95mm. First edition. Spine worn at head & heel with small loss of cloth; cracked between frontispiece and title; else very good. Scarce. Not listed in Darton. Mary Leathley was a prolific author of books for children. She wrote over a hundred titles.
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WHEN THE CAT’S AWAY THE MICE WILL PLAY. Aunt Mavor’s Toy Books. Price Sixpence. Or Mounted on Linen, One Shilling.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [circa 1870]. [16] pages. Illustrated with 8 colour plates. Original pictorial wrappers. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Front wrapper a little worn at fore-edge and corners; spine restored at some time; gift inscription for 1870 on front cover; else a very good copy. Possibly a variant of Necker 2185.
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William and George. THE RICH BOY AND THE POOR BOY; or, A Contented Mind is the Best Feast. Adorned with Cuts.
Wellington: Printed by F. Houlston and Son. Price One Penny. No date [circa 1830]. [24] pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and five woodcuts within the text, and a tailpiece. Original printed wrappers. 105 x 65 mm. A fine copy.
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WILLIAM TELL; The Hero of Switzerland. An Historical Romance. Illustrated with numerous engravings.
London.George Peirce. No date. (1841). [ii], [1], 2-221, [1]pp. Bound from 28 parts. Wood-engraved frontispiece; title set within decorative border. Two full-page engravings (one of which is steel-engraved), and numerous wood-engravings throughout. Contemporary half leather gilt. Quarto. Lacking front free endpaper; small rub on one page with the loss of some letters where something has adhered to the blank recto of the steel-engraved plate (Text easily deciphered!); some spotting and marking; binding rubbed and worn; but firm. A good plus copy.
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WINTER EVENINGS’ DIVERSIONS for Youth; Being a collection of games and forfeits, partly original, and partly translated from the French. By Mr. Estcourt.
London: B. Crosby and Co, 1811. Price One Shilling. [2], 104 pages. The verso of the title is a booklist. Recent quarter tan sheep gilt over marbled boards. 140 x 90 mm. Some spotting throughout; two blank corners lost; else a very good copy of a rare compilation of twelve games of forfeits, including ‘Cupid Comes,’ ‘The Capuchin.’ ‘The Stool of Repentance,’ The Poor Soldier,’ and ‘What’s the price of Barley.’ Rare. Library Hub and Worldcat records one copy only of any edition, it being the second edition of 1808, held by the British Library.
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WONDERFUL STORIES FOR CHILDREN. By Hans Christian Anderson. Translated from the Danish by Mary Howitt.
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Wood's Illustrated Present. Uncle John's JACK THE GIANT KILLER.
London: J. A. & J. R. Wood, No date [circa 1850's]. Eight leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated with seven coloured engravings. Original pictorial wrappers. 25 x 17.5 cm. Spine expertly restored; else a very good copy.
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WORDSWORTH’S POEMS FOR THE YOUNG. With fifty illustrations by John Macwhirter and John Pettie, and a vignette by J. E. Millais. Engraved by Dalziel Brothers.
London: Alexander Strahan & Co, 1863. 92, 10 ad’s [dated December, 1862], pages. Original blind-stamped bevelled cloth with three mounted pictorial pastedowns to the upper panel. 192 x 148 mm. First edition thus. Board a little rubbed; small bookplate; else a very good copy.
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YE BOOKE of OLDEN TIME BALLADES & NURSERY RHYMES. Music by Joseph S. Moorat. Paul Woodroffe Designing it.
No imprint or date, but London, circa 1895. [47] pages of music and Illustrations. Original Quarter binding of brown cloth with cream paper over boards. Both covers with title, illustrator and composer printed in green and yellow on silk. Yellow silk register. Yellow patterned endpapers. All edges gilt. Oblong: 275 x 338 mm. First edition. Bookplate to front pastedown. Some wear to silk, with slight loss. Else a very good copy of a very scarce book.
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Ye Interestynge Stories of CINDERELLA and ye lyttel Glass Slyppere.
Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, No date [circa 1870]. The Royal Illuminated Legends Gorgeously Illuminated, after the Mediaeval manner, in Colours and Gold, by Marcus Ward, Illuminator to the Queen. [10] leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued, of which two bear music composed by Hobson Carroll, two bear text, and six bear full-colour illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. Oblong: 188 x 278 mm. Short tear in blank margin of one text leaf; spine expertly repaired; gift inscription in pencil for Xmas 1871 in the blank margin of page one; else a very good copy.
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YOUNG AMERICA.
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, No date [circa 1899]. A die-cut book in the shape of a young girl sat sewing. [12] pages. With one double-page and two single-page coloured illustrations, the remainder in grisaille. Original full colour card wrappers. Maximum height: 227 mm. A fine copy.
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YOUTHFUL SPORTS; or The Pleasures of A Country Fair. For Good Boys and Girls. With beautiful engravings on Wood. Price One Penny.
Otley: W. Walker, No date [circa 1830]. 16 pages including pastedown wrappers. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and 6 other woodcuts. Original wrappers with a woodcut to the lower panel. 10.5 x 6.5 cm. A very good copy.
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ÆSOPI PHRYGIS, et Aliorum Fabulæ, Quorum nomina sequens pagella indicabit, Elegantissimis Iconibus in gratiam studiosae juventutis illustratae, Editio Novissima. Caeteris auctior, & emendatior. Cum Indice locupletissimo.
Venetiis (Venice): Typographia Remondiniana, 1757. [4] 5 -296, [4 index] pages. Illustrated with decorative device to title, other decorative devices and illustrated capitals, and forty-four wood cuts throughout. Bound in white cloth covered with parchment paper. 12mo. Repairs to front and rear hinges; new end-papers and paste-downs front and rear; slight browning throughout; some loss of paper covering at spine; cracking at rear at Index; else a very good copy of an edition of Aesop designed for children.
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