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Aunt Affable's Pretty Play-Books THE DEATH & BURIAL OF COCK ROBIN. Price Sixpence, Coloured. Indestructible Edition, Printed on Cloth, 1s.
London: Ward & Lock, No date [circa 1870's]. [8] leaves, printed on one side only and mounted on linen, the first and last pasted to the wrappers, illustrated with 12 hand-coloured engravings. Original colour-printed pictorial wrappers. 25 x 16.8 cm. A very good copy.
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CINDERELLA or The Little Glass Slipper. Illustrated by Percy Cruikshank. Read's Grandmama Goodsoul's New Series of Picture Books. Price 6d.
London: Read, Brooks & Co, No date [1860's]. 6 leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated throughout with coloured engravings. Original pictorial wrappers, with ad's to the lower panel. 28.8 x 22.8 cm. Little tired; couple of small rubs where text has stuck; spine expertly repaired; else very good. Scarce.
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CINDERELLA, or The Little Glass Slipper. Marks’s Edition.
London: J. L. Marks, [Circa 1840.]. Ff[8]. Each leaf printed on one side only, and bearing a finely hand-coloured engraving with text beneath. Original pastedown wrappers. A few marks; ownership name on second page; else a very good copy.
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Dean's Sixpenny Mamma Lovechild's Series. THE LORD'S PRAYER EXPLAINED.
London: Dean & Son, No date [circa 1855]. 8 leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated throughout with hand-coloured engravings. Original pictorial wrappers, with ad's to the lower panel. 24.3 x 16.5 cm. Some occasional spotting; little trimmed at top edge; spine expertly restored; else a very good copy.
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DR. WATTS'S DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS. The Illustrations by J. V. Barret.
London: Dean & Son, No date [1856]. 8 pages, each printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to wrappers as issued. Illustrated with 8 hand-coloured illustrations. Two tipped in leaves of ad's for Dean publications. Original pictorial wrappers. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Bookplate of Marjorie Moon neatly tipped in; base of spine beginning to split; else very good. The second illustration shows a scene from a game of cricket.
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Grandmamma Easy's MICHAELMAS DAY; or, Poor Molly Goosey.
London: Dean & Co, No date [inscribed 1847]. 8 leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated throughout with hand-coloured engravings. Original pictorial series wrappers. 24.5 x 17 cm. Neat name on front wrapper; little worn; spine expertly restored; else a very good copy.
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HOP O' MY THUMB. Aunt Mavor’s Everlasting Toy Books.
London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, No date. [Circa: 1860.]. 8 leaves, printed on one side only and mounted on linen, the first and last pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated with coloured engravings. Original pictorial coloured wrappers. 24 x 17.5 cm. Spine expertly repaired ; else a very good copy.
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Jenny Jingle's Little Prattler. THE SELFISH BOY.
Boston: Wier & White, No date [ circa 1850's]. [8] leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers, each bearing a hand-coloured engraving with text. Original printed wrappers. 25.2 x 17.6 cm. Tear in lower wrapper and a small corner lost; else very good copy.
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JONGENS- SPELEN. Mt xii Gekleurde Platen. Derde Druk.
Amsterdam.G. Portielje. No date [Circa 1820/30.]. 48pp. Illustrated with twelve finely hand-coloured engraved plates extra to the paging. Original printed boards. Edition not known. Bookplate; boards a little rubbed and worn at edges; else a very good copy of a charming book of children's games.
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LIFE AND DEATH OF RICH MRS. DUCK A NOTORIOUS GLUTTON. Illustrated by Cruikshank. Read's New Enlarged Toy Books, Price 6d., coloured.
Read & Co., Publishers and Printers, No date [1860's]. [8] leaves, printed on one side only and mounted on linen, the first and last pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated throughout with hand-coloured engravings. Original pictorial wrappers, with ad's to the lower panel. 25.7 x 18 cm. Little tired; small corner missing from upper wrapper; else very good. Scarce.
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LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.
No Imprint; no date, but circa late 1820’s or early 1830’s. 11 pages of text and eleven hand-coloured lithographs, all printed on one side of the leaf only. Original pictorial wrappers. Some uneven fading of the colour from the wrappers; spine expertly restored; else a very good copy. This title was first issued jointly by Tabart and John Harris in 1807, with a title-page which read, The history of Little Red Riding Hood, in verse. Illustrated by engravings In the original publication, as well as title, it had an additional plate as a frontispiece. Mrs. Moon records editions up to 1818, but did not locate this printing. The illustrations in this edition have been redrawn.
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Miss Mary Merry-Heart's Series. THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. Dean's Untearable Cloth Children's Coloured Toy Books. 1s.
London: Dean & Son, 1869. [8] leaves, printed on one side only and mounted on linen, the first and last pasted to the wrappers, seven of them with hand-coloured engravings. Original pictorial hand-coloured wrappers. 25 x 16.5 cm. Some light browning throughout, possibly from the glue used to secure the page to the linen; spine expertly restored; else very good.
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MY MOTHER.
London: George Routledge & Sons, No date [circa 1876]. 8 leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued. 24.8 x 18.6 cm. Some water-staining; small bookplate; else a very good copy of a scarce title.
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Pictures from Bunyan's PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
London: Dean & Son, 1863. [8 ] leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated throughout with hand-coloured engravings. Original pictorial wrappers. 24.4 x 16.6 cm. Spine expertly restored; else a very good copy. Tipped-in is a four page catalogue of Dean's publications.
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[ROSCOE, William]. THE BUTTERFLY’S BALL AND THE GRASSOPPER’S [sic] FEAST.
London: W. S. Johnson, No date [circa 1846]. [12] pages., 11 bearing wood-engraved illustrations, the first coloured by hand as issued. Original wrappers with repeat of title illustration and wording to upper cover, and with ad’s to lower. Ex-libris Marjorie Moon, with her bookplate and loosely laid-in notes. An excellent copy. This exact copy was item 24 in the exihibiton of Marjorie Moon’s children’s books held at the Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford in 1994, and the same number in the catalogue that was published to accompany the exhibition.
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STORIES ABOUT HORSES, SHIPS, & DOGS.
London: Dean & Son, No date [circa 1850's]. 8 leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated throughout with hand-coloured engravings. Original pictorial wrappers. 24.9 x 17 cm. Spine expertly restored; else a very good copy.
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THE COSTUME, MANNERS AND PECULIARITIES, OF DIFFERENT INHABITANTS OF THE GLOBE, calculated to instruct and amuse the little folks of all countries.
London: J. Harris and Son, 1821. 16pp. + 1 pp. booklist on rear pastedown. 16 hand-coloured wood-engravings with verse beneath. Original printed wrappers. First edition. Name on title; spine repaired; covers rather dust-soiled; the odd mark her & there. Moon 164 (1). Gumuchian 1881.
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THE COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE OF COCK ROBIN AND JENNY WREN.
London: J. L. Marks, No date. [Circa 1830.]. 8pp. (First and last pastedown to wrappers.) Each page bearing a hand-coloured engraving with verse beneath. Original decorative wrappers. Base of spine splitting; else a very good, fresh, bright copy.
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THE DANDIE'S BALL; or, High life in the City. Embellished with Sixteen Coloured Engravings.
London: John Marshall, 1819. Price One Shilling and Sixpence. 16 leaves each printed on one side only, and each bearing a hand-coloured engraving with text beneath. Original orange paper wrappers with a shaped, hand-coloured pastedown. First edition. the illustrations are after Robert Cruikshank. Covers a little rubbed; ownership inscription on front fixed pastedown. A very good copy.
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THE Histories of TOM THE PIPER'S SON and TOM TUCKER. Illustrated by Cruikshank. Read's Children's Tales. &c. Price 6d. on paper. Untearable cloth 1s.
London: Read & Co., Publishers & Printers... Jas. Campbell, Toronto and Montreal, No date [circa 1865/70]. 8 leaves, printed on one side only and laid on linen, the first and last pasted to the covers, each beaing a hand-coloured engraving with text beneath. Original pictorial colour-printed wrappers. 23.8 x 18 cm. Spine expertly restored; some creasing and wear, small bookseller's paper label to front wrapper. A very good copy of a superb Read toybook.
More details Price: £495.00