ADAMS, Charlotte. BOYS AT HOME.

Original red blind-stamped cloth gilt extra. Pp. 414, with 8 full-page tissue-guarded woodcuts by John Gilbert. A nice bright copy, with a contemporary school prize inscription on the flyleaf (Wesleyan School, Ulverston: presented to John Briggs, Christmas 1857). New edition, Routledge, 1857.

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ADAMS, Frank illustrator THE STORY OF OLD MOTHER HUBBARD AND HER DOG.

Large 4to. Original cloth-backed boards with pictorial onlay, a little surface abrasion to corners and edges. Pp. (32), with12 full-page colour illustrations, numerous black and white drawings, and two-colour pictorial endpapers, all in Adams’ Aldin-like style. A very nice copy. Blackie & Son, no date [c.1930].

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AIGA. CHILDRENS BOOKS SHOW 1961-962.

Small oblong 8vo. Original wrappers Unpaginated. 95 books described and illustrated, including 4 by Maurice Sendak. [First edition] American Institute of Graphic Arts, c.1962 [Hanrahan: B1f].

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AIGA. THE FIFTY BOOKS OF THE YEAR 1962.

Original green cloth gilt. Unpaginated. 50 books described and illustrated. [First edition] American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1963. [Hanrahan: B1g].Book 40 is Maurice Sendak’s “Schoolmaster Whackwell’s Wonderful Sons”.

£20.00 | Stock No: 48135 | Add to basket | View more details

AIKIN, John and BARBOULD, Anna Laetitia formerly Aikin. EVENINGS AT HOME;

Small 8vo. Original cloth gilt, a little rubbed. Pp. 355, all edges gilt, with engraved frontispiece and title (edges rather damp-stained). Joints cracked. Darton & Co., no date [c.1850].

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ALDIN, Cecil. BUNNYBOROUGH.

Large 8vo. Original yellow cloth, dustwrapper, few creases, closed tears and small chips. Unpaginated. 14 fine colour plates and numerous line drawings by Aldin. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946.

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ALDIN, Cecil Illustrator: SEWELL, Anna. BLACK BEAUTY.

Large 8vo. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt, extremities a little worn. Pp. viii, 291, with 18 delightful coloured plates, tipped in and with tissue guards. [First edition thus] Jarrolds for Boot’s the Chemist, no date [c.1930].

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ALDRIDGE, Alan & ADAMS, Richard. THE SHIPS CAT.

Large 8vo. Original glazed pictorial boards, corners a little worn. Unpaginated. Illustrated in colour throughout. [First edition] Cape, 1977.

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ALLEN, Philip Schuyler. THREE ROLY-POLY PIGLETS.

Oblong 4to.Original pictorial boards, dustwrapper (few closed edge-tears). Unpaginated. 12 fine full-page colour plates and numerous drawings. A lovely clean copy. Very scarce. [First edition] Collins, no date.

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ANDERSON, Anne illustrator THE ROSE-POSIE BOOK

Original cream boards with pictorial onlay, a little marked, corners a trifle bruised Pp. (48), with 12 full-page colour plates and 12 monochrome decorated pages of text, printed on opposing pages, versos blank. Thomas Nelson, [1920].

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ANDERSON, Florence Mary illustrator: YOUNG, Christie T. THE BLACK PRINCESS

Original cloth with pictorial roundel on the upper board, a little soiled. Pp. viii, 160, with 12 striking colour plates and text line drawings. Flyleaves lightly browned. Very scarce. [First edition] Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent & Co., no date [c.1917].

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ANON. BIBLE STORIES;

Tall 8vo. Original blind-stamped blue cloth gilt, a little worn and stained, and neatly rebacked to match. Pp. 48, printed on one side of each sheet, with 120 hand-coloured woodcuts, mostly 3 to the page. Pastedowns a little damaged and repaired, new front flyleaf, a few edge-repairs in places. Dean & Son, no date [c1860s].

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ANON. BO-PEEP.

Small 4to. Original cloth-backed pictorial glazed boards, edges and corners a little worn. Pp. 188, (xvi), with full-page and other woodcut illustrations throughout. Joints cracked, edges soiled. Cassell & Co., 1894.

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ANON. THE BOOK OF TRADES.

12mo. Original roan-backed boards gilt, rather worn. Pp.210, (ii), complete with 23 copper-engraved plates. A few plates a little browned, otherwise a very nice copy of a detailed little work. Fourth edition, Tabart and Co., 1810.

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ANON. EFFIES DREAM.

Small 8vo. Original pictorial boards, edges rubbed, backstrip defective. Pp. 64, with woodcut frontispiece and text woodcut vignettes. [First edition] Nelson and Sons, 1869.

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ANON. THE HOLIDAYS AT LLANDUDNO.

Small 8vo. Original decorated green cloth gilt, hinges a little rubbed. Pp. 127, 8, all edges gilt, with 4 colour plates by Kronheim. [First edition] Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1868. The anonymous author also wrote “Owen Carstone”.

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ANON. JAMES WATT AND THE STEAM ENGINE.

12mo. Original blind-stamped cloth gilt, slight mark on lower hinge. Pp. 192, all edges gilt. Religious Tract Society, no date [c.1870].

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ANON. OLD NURSERY RHYMES WITH CHIMES

Original cloth-backed boards, neatly recased. Pp. 40 of music and verses. The word “Bells” is represented on the title and upper board with a picture of three bells. Bell & Daldy, 1863.

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ANON. OUR CHILDREN:

Small 4to. Original green blind-stamped cloth gilt, neatly re-cased. Pp. [56], lithographed throughout with pencil drawings. A little light spotting to first few leaves. Inscription on flyleaf dated July 6th 1867 [the British Library entry gives the date as 1895]. Dean & Son, no date [c.1867].

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ANON. PETS AND PLAYFELLOWS.

4to. Original printed wrappers, top and fore-edge shaped, few tears to edges. 5 fine chromolithographs, including 1 double-page spread of rabbits and guinea-pigs. Dean & Son [Dean's Artistic Series, No.8], no date [c.1890].

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