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A BUSHEL OF MERRY-THOUGHTS.
Comprising: The Terrible Punishment of the Naughty Boys of Corinth; The Exciting Story of the Cat and the Mouse; The Disobedient Children Who Stole Sugar Bread; The Fearful Tragedy of Ice-Peter.
London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1868. Oblong 4to., pp.(iv),14,16,16,16, cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, plates and vignettes hand-coloured by Busch; foxing to margins throughout, wear to extremities, with loss to paper covering of front board at lower margin, a good(+) copy of this scarce hand-coloured edition. The second title Cat and Mouse appears to be lacking page 13 although there is no sign it has ever been there.
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ABC AN ALPHABET.
London: Elkin Matthews, 1896. First edition, scarce, 8vo., 20pp. of advertisements to rear of volume, text and pictures unpaginated, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece, pictorial title page; pictorial blue cloth, image to front board blocked in cream and black with black lettering, lettered in black to spine; ownership autograph written within the Gaskin illustrated pictorial ex-libris printed onto paste-down endpaper, webbing visible to inner hinge of front and rear where endpapers have slightly come away, fragile but all contents firm, rubbing to extremities of boards, cloth slightly faded and toned, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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DISSOLVING VIEWS.
A Book of Revolving Pictures With Verses.
More details Price: £795.00
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EDWIN AND HENRY; OR THE WEEK’S HOLIDAYS:
Containing Original Tales for the Improvement of Youth.
Derby: Thomas Richardson, 1830. Second edition, 12mo., pp.128, quarter red roan, gilt, with gilt decoration to spine, marbled boards, complete with engraved frontispiece and pictorial title and 7 further engraved plates; tear with loss to upper corner of p.65, with partial loss to text of Hymn title (Hymn itself complete), slight crease to upper corners throughout, rubbing to boards, with light wear to edges, a very good copy.
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LE LA FONTAINE DES ENFANS,
Ou Choix de Fables de La Fontaine, Les Plus Simples et les Plus Morales, Avec des Explications a la portee de l’Enfance, Orne de Six Gravures.
Paris: A la Librairie d’Education de Pierre Blanchard, 1820. 12mo., pp.180, full tree calf with black title label to spine, gilt, with gilt border to boards and gilt decorations to compartments, marbled endpapers and edges, engraved vignette to title, 4 engraved plates each with 2 illustrations; small ink ownership autograph to upper margin of front free endpaper verso, foxing to edges/very margins, spine is bright, a very good+ copy of this scarce title.
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NONSENSE DROLLERIES:
The Owl & The Pussy-Cat - The Duck & The Kangaroo.
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1889. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.31,(i)advert, red cloth spine with pictorial boards, b/w illustrations; toning to endpapers, ink ownership autograph to upper margin of front free endpaper, fingermarking and light surface soiling throughout, wear to paper covering at extremities of boards, with professional repair to headband and head of rear joint, a good copy.
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THE CUCKOO CLOCK.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1877. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),242,(ii), pictorial red cloth stamped in black and gilt, b/w frontispiece and 6 further b/w plates by Walter Crane; lightly rolled and slightly shaken, gutter and glue visible in a couple of places, rubbing and light marking to cloth, with light wear to corners, a sound copy.
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THE DOG OF KNOWLEDGE; OR, MEMOIRS OF BOB, THE SPOTTED TERRIER:
Supposed to be written by Himself.
London: J. Harris, 1801. 12mo., pp.xii,183,(iii), backed in green roan, gilt, marbled boards, speckled edges, engraved frontispiece and pictorial title; small pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, light toning and foxing to prelims, internally fresh, with wear to paper covering at extremities and some rubbing to boards, overall a very good copy indeed. [‘Probably the first book to be published by J. Harris alone’. Moon 212]
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THE LITTLE FLOWER SEEKERS,
Being Adventures of Trot and Daisy in a Wonderful Garden, by Moonlight.
London: Marcus Ward and Co, 1873. First edition, square 8vo., pp.126, pictorial red bevelled cloth, lettered in gilt to front board, and pictured in black, with black lettering to spine, illustrated with 12 very attractive tipped-in chromolithographic plates, including frontispiece, one b/w illustration; contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a little light foxing to prelims, rubbing to extremities, with light wear to cloth at lower corners and at foot of upper joint, small spot of wear at headband, light marking to cloth, a very good, clean copy.
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THE LITTLE ROEBUCK.
London: Griffith and Farran, 1874. First edition, pp.16, printed to rectos only, each with hand-coloured illustrations and accompanying rhyme (15 colour illustrations), pictorial paper-covered boards backed in red cloth; contemporary ink inscription, dated 1874, to front free endpaper, toning to title and to margins of endpapers, a little toning to margins throughout, paper worn to edges of boards, with toning and surface soil to boards, a very good copy.
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THE OLD NURSERY RHYMES; OR, THE MERRIE HEART.
London/Paris/New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co, 1932. Fifth edition, 12mo., pp.225,4(adverts), pictorial green bevelled cloth, gilt, a.e.g., colour frontispiece and 6 further colour plates, wood-engraved illustrations throughout; owner’s ink inscription, dated 1932, to front free endpaper verso, occasional spotting or marking to fore-margins, contents very slightly shaken but still very good and tight, light rubbing to extremities, with a few (just lightly visible) water-marks to cloth, including ring-mark to front board, overall a very good, fairly bright copy.
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THE ORNAMENTS DISCOVERED: A STORY, IN TWO PARTS.
London: William Darton, Jun, 1815. 12mo., pp.191,(xvii)adverts, quarter red roan, gilt, plain paper-covered boards, engraved frontispiece; neat ink ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper (dated 1830), rubbing to extremities, with wear to paper covering of boards along edges and at corners, a very good copy. [OSBORNE p.267 for this edition].
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THE SILVER FAIRY BOOK.
London: Hutchinson and Co, 1895. First edition, 8vo., pp.viii,312, pictorial navy cloth stamped in silver and brown, all edges silver, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w illustrations, decorative endpapers; 4cm closed tear to lower inner margin of title page, closed tear and crease to inner margin of tissue guard, light foxing throughout, occasional thumbing, rubbing to extremities, a good copy.
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THE SISTERS OF THE CAVERN.
An Interesting Tale, From the French of Madame de Herbster.
Boston: James Loring, 1823. 12mo., pp.106, black calf-backed marbled boards, gilt, engraved frontispiece; toning and foxing to margins, wear to extremities of paper covering of boards, rbbing to boards, a very good copy.
More details Price: £350.00