AESOP: The Fables Illustrated by 25 Drawings by Detmold; and other Children's Books available from Bristow & Garland Booksellers

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AESOP: The Fables of Aesop. Illustrated with 25 Drawings in Color by Edward J. Detmold.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
This is identical to the signed limited edition of 750 copies, but this out of series, un-numbered and un-signed. Twenty-five fine tipped-in coloured plates. Large 4to, original cream cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine darkened, some spotting or light marking to binding but generally attractive. Corner of two of the tipped-in coloured plates with corner creases, another with two creases across but otherwise very good. One internal gutter cracked but very firm.
Quote Item No. 6700
Price: £250.00

ALPHABET: an ABC of Toys.
London: Nelson n.d. (1926).
Illustrated by Phyl. E. Webb. 4to, 16-pages illustrated throughout in colour. 4to, original coloured pictorial boards; backstrip and corners rubbed, small chip from headband. Generally good. With a later (1940) Wykeham House School, Fareham, prize label awarding this volume adhered to inside of front cover.
Quote Item No. 7531
Price: £35.00

ANDERSEN, HANS: Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen.
London: Hodder and Stoughton n.d. [1924].
First Nielsen edition. 12 tipped-in coloured plates. 4to, original green moire cloth elaborately blocked in gilt; spine faded (as often), some light fading to fore-edge of upper cover. Inner hinges pulled. Some light foxing. Partly erased inscription on front free endpaper which has, at one time been glued to facing paste-down to hide the inscription, traces of glue remaining. Lower endpaper glued to lower pastedown. The binding quite presentable, internally very good also with no creasing to the tipped-in coloured plates.
Quote Item No. 7278
Price: £350.00

ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN: The Ice-Maiden. Translated from the Danish by Mrs. Bushby. With drawings by Zwecker, Engraved by Pearson.
London: Richard Bentley, 1863.
Illustrations in the text throughout. Square 8vo, pp.173:(2, Bentley's list), original dark blue bevelled cloth, large gilt corner ornaments with gilt rules to sides, the upper cover also pictorially blocked in gilt, a.e.g. Stitching slack, several leaves detached, headband snagged and with very small puncture to backstrip, small brown stain to upper cover.
Quote Item No. 524
Price: £60.00
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ANON: Little Annie and Her Sisters by E.W.H.
London: J. Masters, 1839.
First (and only ?) edition. Engraved frontispiece. 12mo, pp.98, original blindstamped cloth, the upper cover lettered in gilt, the spine decorated in gilt; binding a little faded, frontispiece foxed, upper inner joint cracked between frontispiece and title but held on cords. Rare.
Quote Item No. 8051
Price: £45.00

ANON: A Complete Picture Gallery of the Animal Kingdom in which Seven Hundred and Thirty-five woodcuts, arranged systematically, illustrate all the commoner forms of Animal Life.
London: George Gill, n.d. ca. 1890.
4to, original blue cloth pictorially blocked in gilt and black, all edges gilt; head and base of spine a little rubbed, corners rubbed, binding spotted but generally very good. Signature and date, 1892, on reverse of title-page.
Quote Item No. 6134
Price: £20.00

ANON: Here and There Pictures, Stories, Poems.
London: Blackie, n.d. ca. 1927.
Charming coloured plates by Honor C. Appleton and others. 4to, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards; boards a little rubbed and slightly dusty. Gift inscription dated 1927 on endpaper.
Quote Item No. 6124
Price: £12.00

ANON: The Wonderfull History of Dame Trot and Her Pig. With illustrations by C.A.B.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1883.
Coloured pictorial title and 23 coloured plates. 4to, original cloth-backed boards; now lacking the backstrip, boards soiled, all plates loose. Short edge tear to one plate otherwise all in good order.
The preface states that this work "was written and illustrated some half century ago". The date 1826 is printed on the cover.
Quote Item No. 6079
Price: £40.00

ANON: The Two Sisters; or, Ellen and Sophia.
London: R.T.S. 1831.
Engraved frontispiece & woodcut illustrations. 12mo, pp.108, contemporary half roan, marbled boards; some foxing.
Quote Item No. 207
Price: £25.00

ANON: Cherry Pie for Good Girl and Boy.
London: Dean & Son ca. 1885.
Cover and 5 plates printed in colours, the text leaves mounted on linen as issued; creased, backstrip & lower cover chipped.
Quote Item No. 146
Price: £20.00

ARMFIELD, CONSTANCE SMEDLEY: The Armfields' Animal Book. With 8 Illustrations in Colour by Maxwell Armfield.
London: Duckworth, 1922.
First edition. Eight tipped-in colour plates. 4to, pp.96, original yellow cloth lettered in black in dustwrapper with colour pastedown on upper cover; edges of binding slightly browned and bumped; dustwrapper generally browned and rubbed with a number of short tears (small amounts of loss) and chips to edges especially upper headband; endpapers browned; one plate mount suffering some slight adhesion of paper from opposite text page and another plate mount creased along gutter due to insufficient trimming; despite all a good copy.
Quote Item No. 6867
Price: £40.00

ARTHUR, T.S: The Child's Own Story Book.
London: Knight & Son, ca. 1855.
Woodcut illustrations. 12mo, pp.vi:244, original blindstamped green cloth, spine pictorially blocked in gilt, a.e.g. - an exceptional copy.
Quote Item No. 256
Price: £45.00
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AUSTIN, STELLA: Uncle Philip. A Story for Boys and Girls.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1903.
Frontispiece and illustrations. 8vo, pp.x:252:[8, publisher's list], original pale grey cloth pictorially blocked in colours and gilt; binding very slightly dusty. Sunday School prize label pasted to front-pastedown.
Quote Item No. 988
Price: £10.00

BALDWIN, W.H. [Conducted by]: Every Boy's New Monthly. Volume 2.
London: Appleyard, 1891.
Illustrations in the text. 4to, pp.172, original blue cloth blocked in black & gilt; binding faded and edge rubbed. Contemporary gift inscription.
"Encounter with an Elephant", "Buried Alive", "Man Eater of Nagpore" and other exciting tales, also "How to form a Football Club" and other useful articles.
Quote Item No. 6125
Price: £12.00

BARING GOULD, S: A Book of Fairy Tales, Retold by S. Baring Gould, with Pictures by A. J. Gaskin.
London: Methuen, 1894.
First edition. Illustrated title, illustrations in the text. 8vo, pp.ix:244:32(Methuen's catalogue dated October 1894), original black cloth pictorially blocked in gilt to spine and upper cover, top edge gilt others uncut. Some foxing, some light soiling to margins, binding rubbed but generally a good copy. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 6692
Price:£55.00

BARKER, CICELY MARY: Flower Fairies of the Autumn.
London: Blackie, n.d.
24 coloured plates. 12mo, original boards with coloured illustration onlaid to upper cover as issued. A very good copy in bright d.w. Priced at 2/6.
Quote Item No. 2666
Price: £40.00

BAYLEY, F.W.N; and SMITH, ALBERT: Comic Nursery Tales: Blue Beard. With illustrations Humorous and Numerous.
[Bound with] Beauty and the Beast by Albert Smith. Illustrations by Alfred Crowquill.
[Bound with] Robinson Crusoe, with thirty illustrations.
London: Wm. S. Orr, 1844.
General title "Comic Tales" listing all three works, printed in colours. Three works in one each with individual title-page, printed in colours, and separate pagination, each illustrated with plates on tinted backgrounds with tissue guards; the title-page of the second work with hand-coloured vignette.
Small 8vo, pp.46:51:39, original elaborately decorated boards printed in red, blue and gold, all edges gilt; one and a half inch piece chipped from base of spine, headband chipped, boards rubbed. Decoratively printed endpapers in colours.
The illustrations engraved on wood by Henry Vizetelly. The front board states that the illustrations are by Cham, Alfred Crowquill, & Leech.
Very rare.
Quote Item No.3744
Price: £200.00
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BELL, LETTICE: The Boiling Caldron.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
Four coloured plates. Square 8vo, pp.210, original green cloth with coloured pictorial illustration mounted on upper cover as issued; binding a little faded, upper inner joint cracked but firm, generally good.
Quote Item No. 5282
Price: £12.00

BENHAM, W. GURNEY: Arthur and the Boilybird. An A.B.C. Story. Pictured by Frank Adams.
London: Blackie, n.d. [1909].
First (& only?) edition. Coloured illustrations throughout. Oblong folio, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards; corners a trifle rubbed but virtually a fine copy of this very rare title.
An illustrated alphabet with verse. Young Arthur is visited by the Boilybird Fairy, who lives in the nursery kettle, and they take off on their adventures in a flying car "made of fairyland steel, it was worked by a windmilly sort of a wheel, And a little steam snorter beneath it was sizzling, Which kept the machinery twirling and twizzling"
Quote Item No. 5048
Price: £250.00

BESTALL, ALFRED: More Adventures of Rupert.
London: Daily Express, 1986.
Limited edition (Number 2728) facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1937. Illustrations in red & black throughout. 4to, pp.123, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Corners a trifle bumped but generally a fine copy and free from inscriptions.
Quote Item No. 6273
Price: £40.00

BINGHAM, CLIFTON & WAIN, LOUIS: All Sorts of Comical Cats. Pictured by Louis Wain, Verses by Clifton Bingham.
London: Ernest Nister [1902].
Coloured mounted frontispiece, illustrated title-page, and illustrations throughout, some with coloured highlights. 4to, pp.[62], original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Fore-edges and fore-corners of boards rubbed, some marking but generally good. Front free-endpaper, which bears a contemporary gift inscription, is detached and a little edge worn. Tear to frontispiece backing sheet not affecting the coloured mounted plate, horizontal tear through one leaf without loss.
Scan available upon request.
Quote Item No. 5441
Price: £225.00
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BLANCHARD, AMY E: My Own Dolly. With Original Illustrations in Colour by Ida Waugh.
New York: E.P. Dutton & London: Griffith & Farran, n.d. ca. 1880's.
Chromolitho. frontispiece, pictorial title and plates. Square 8vo, pp.64, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Binding dusty, corners bumped, edge-rubbed, marginal tear to one leaf of text with some loss but not affecting text.
Quote Item No. 5217
Price: £48.00

BLYTON, ENID: Boys' and Girls' Story Book No. 2.
London: News Chronicle Limited, n.d.
Illustrated in colour and black & white by Kathleen Nixon, Horace J. Knowles and Lola Onslow. 4to, pp.253, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards; very good.
Quote Item No. 1089
Price: £18.00
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BROOKE, L. LESLIE: Johnny Crow's Party, another Picture Book.
London: Warne, n.d.
Frontispiece and 6 coloured plates, illustrations in line to each leaf. Square 8vo, original cloth-backed boards with coloured oval illustration inset on upper cover; edges of boards faded, one plate detached. Inscription dated 1928 on verso of front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 362
Price: £28.00

BULLEN, FRANK T: The Cruise of the "Cachalot". Round the World after Sperm Whales. With illustrations.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1898.
First edition. Seven black and white plates, one folding map. 8vo, pp.xx:379, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine with a whale stamped in gilt on upper cover; headbands and corners a little bumped and rubbed, joints a trifle rubbed; ink name on front free endpaper. Generally a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 8065
Price: £90.00

CALDECOT, RANDOLPH: Sing a Song for Sixpence. "One of R. Caldecott's Picture Books".
London: Routledge n.d. ca. 1880.
First edition. 8 coloured plates and line illustrations in sepia. 4to, pp.30, original coloured pictorial wrappers; a few punctures and rubbing to backstrip, stitching broken. An excellent and bright copy, both wrappers and content.
Quote Item No. 5232
Price: £20.00

CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH: The Three Jovial Huntsmen. "One of R. Caldecott's Picture Books".
London: Routledge, ca. 1880.
First edition. 8 coloured plates and line illustrations in sepia. 4to, pp.30, original coloured pictorial wrappers; a few punctures and rubbing to backstrip, stitching broken. A good copy with only some marking to the wrappers.
Quote Item No. 5235
Price: £15.00

CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH: The Farmer's Boy. "One of R. Caldecott's Picture Books".
London: Routledge, [1881].
First edition. 8 coloured plates and sepia illustrations in line. 4to, pp.30, original coloured pictorial wrappers; backstrip very rubbed, narrow strip of paper adhered to inner margin of lower wrapper. Text block detached from wrappers. The wrappers and content very clean & attractive.
Quote Item No. 5230
Price: £20.00

CALLCOTT, [MARIA] LADY: Little Arthur's History of England. A New Edition.
London: John Murray, 1843.
Illustrations. Small 8vo, pp.(6):261:(2, advertisements), original blindstamped brown cloth. Bindng a little faded, stitching slack, some leaves partly detached. Inscription, "Caroline E. Jenner Oct. 7th 1844 with Mamma's best Love" on front pastedown.
Quote Item No. 8054
Price: £18.00

CLARKE, J. ERSKINE [Editor]: Chatterbox 1896. Fine copy.
London: Wells, Gardner, Darton, 1896.
Coloured plates & illustrations throughout. 4to, pp.412, original blue grained cloth blocked in black and gilt. Some foxing. Apart from some rubbing to the headband and corners this volume is remarkably fresh, with the gilt as bright as when new.
Quote Item No. 8103
Price: £20.00

DARTON & CO. [Publisher ]: London Cries. Illustrated for the Young.
London: Darton & Co., n.d. ca. 1850's.
16 hand-coloured plates each showing a different street vendor, the figure of the men, or women, depicted entirely made up of their wares thus the Fruiterer has grapes for feet, a pineapple as a body and oranges and pears as arms. Square 12mo, pp.64, original blue cloth blocked in blind and gilt; binding very rubbed, corners bumped, gilt dulled. Stitching broken, contents loose, two tears to the text without loss. Text corners bumped, marginal thumbing and soiling, a number of leaves lightly chipped on fore-margins. A poor copy of a very rare work but complete.
The plates depict: The Fruiterer, The Dealer in Images, The Old Clothesman, The Fish-Woman, The Poulterer, The Cooper, The Bird Fancier, The Strolling Musician, The Flower Girl, The Brush Maker, The Orange Merchant, The Green Grocer, The Tinker, The Knife Grinder, The Dealer in Earthenware, & The Italian Pedlar.
A birthday gift inscription to Sophia Hapgood from her father dated 1863 on rector of front free endpaper.
The Bodleian Library suggests 1855 as the date of publication.
Quote Item No. 8028
Price: £125.00

DARWIN, BERNARD & ELINOR: The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo.
London: Nonesuch Press, n.d. ca. 1926.
First edition. Charming coloured plates. Oblong 8vo, original brown paper covered boards decorated in red and with embossed red medallion on upper cover as issued. 1½ inch piece chipped from base of spine, corners a little bumped else good. Name and date, Christmas 1926, on front pastedown.
Quote Item No. 6048
Price: £100.00
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D'AULNOY, CONTESSA: The White Cat. A Fairy Tale by Contessa d’Aulnoy. Retold by Jane Carmichael, Illustrated by S & G Tourret. "Containing a ‘magic’ sound record, no record player needed”.
A Mulberry Press Talking Book, 1974.
4to, original glazed pictorial boards; the book containing a record and hinged needle, designed to be spun with the finger – and it works! In very good condition.
Quote Item No. 3516
Price: £12.00

DAVIS, ELLEN LOUISA: Asceline's Ladder.
London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. ca. 1890's.
Frontispiece. 8vo, pp.288 plus advertisements, original green cloth blocked in colours. Gutter cracked between pages 48 & 49 else a very good copy. School prize label on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 7137
Price: £25.00

DAVIES, M. JOYCE: Oh My Hat !
London: Hutchinson's Books for Young People, n.d. ca. 1940's.
Coloured illustrations thoughout. Square 8vo, pp. [32], original coloured pictorial boards; boards a little yellowed else a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 3575
Price: £10.00

DEAN & SON (Publishers): Childhoods Favorite [sic] Tales. With New Designs by Mrs Grey and O.E.A.
London: Dean & Son, n.d. ca. 1890.
Chromolitho. frontispiece and chromolitho. illustrations to every page. 4to, 40 illustrated leaves printed on recto only, original green cloth, the upper cover pictorially blocked in black and lettered in gilt. Some foxing, a few marginal short tears or chips to text leaves, slightly later (1909) inscription on endpaper, two small patches of damp-marking on lower margin of upper cover but generally a good copy.
The volume contains: The True Story of Little Bo-Peep, The Pig bought with a Silver Penny, The Children's Cinderella, Cock Robin, The Children's Little Red Riding Hood, The Ten Little Niggers, The Children's Babes in the Wood, & Robinson Crusoe.
The title is spelt "Favorite" on the title-page and "Favourite" on the binding.
Quote Item No. 4347
Price: £65.00

DE PABAN, GABRIELLE: Les Amis de College ou Quinze Jours de Vacances.
Paris: Locard et Davi, 1819. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title vignette, and four plates. 12mo, pp. 234, contemporary half green roan, marbled boards. Upper outer joint split and chipped, backstrip partly detached. Contemporary inscription on front fly. Internally a good copy.
Quote Item No. 682
Price:. £55.00

DOYLE, RICHARD: Jack the Giant Killer.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, [1888].
First edition. Being a facsimile reproduction of Doyle's manuscript of 1842. Coloured pictorial title and coloured illustrations throughout. 4to, pp.48, original grey cloth pictorially blocked in red; publisher's introduction slip tipped-in as issued. Both free endpapers torn and damaged, inner hinges split, corners and head and tail of spine rubbed. Internally excellent.
Quote Item No. 6075
Price: £90.00

DUFRESNE, ABEL: Contes a Henri et a Henriette.
Paris: Lehuby, n.d.
Eight coloured lithographic plates. 8vo, pp.v:220, original elaborately embossed green cloth, the upper cover blocked in gold and colours. Headband chipped, light damp-mark to upper edges of most leaves.
Quote Item No. 4350
Price: £25.00

EDGAR, J.G: A Boy's Adventures in the Barons' Wars; or, How I Won my Spurs. Illustrated with numerous Woodcuts, from Designs Principally by R. Huttula and J.C. Danby.
London: Ward, Lock, ca. 1890's?
Coloured frontispiece and numerous illustrations. 8vo, pp.xviii:413:16, [publisher's list], original brown cloth pictorially blocked in black and gilt, a.e.g.; frontispiece partly detached, a bright and attractive copy.
Quote Item No. 989
Price: £25.00
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Every Boy's Hobby Annual for 1931.
London: Fleetway (1930).
Numerous illustrations, 2 folding plates "Motor-Cycling Extraordinary" and "R.A.F. Champions". 4to, pp. 208, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards; corners bumped, one plate detached, else very good.
Quote Item No. 2873
Price: £15.00

FARMILOE, EDITH: Mr. and Mrs. Tiddliwinks.
London: S.P.C.K. 1902.
Illustrations in the text. Large 8vo, pp.52:(4 adverts.) original pictorial cloth blocked in black & gilt. Binding unevenly faded, some browning, inscription on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 1884
Price: £10.00

FENELON [François de Salignac de la Mothe-]: Little Tales.
Guben: F. Fechner, London: A. & Joseph Myers, 144 Leadenhall Street. n.d. ca. 1854.
Four volumes. 16mo (each 3¾ x 2¼ inches) bound in the original variously patterned and coloured silk over boards, each with a coloured cut paper floral onlay as issued. Each volume with hand-coloured frontispiece, 4 other hand-coloured plates. First two volumes without imprint as issued. One volume inscribed "Lizzy Bland with cousin Kate's kind love Xmas /54". One volume with small chip at head of spine, another with a small chip at base of spine but generally in excellent condition, bright and attractive. All four volumes contained within the original box with lift off lid. This with patterned silk over board sides, the applied lettering on lid "The Lilliputation Library" [?] and other border decorations chipped and with corners rubbed but the box generally in sound condition.
Quote Item No. 6691
Price: £350.00
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FENOLLOSA, MARY: Blossoms from a Japanese Garden, a Book of Child-Verses.
London: Heinemann, 1913.
First edition. 20 tipped-in coloured plates. 8vo, pp.vii:60, original decorative green cloth with coloured illustration mounted to upper cover as issued. Slight snag to upper edge of lower cover and headband but generally very good.
Quote Item No. 3002
Price: £25.00

GIBBS, MAY: Boronia Babies.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson n.d. [1919].
First edition. Coloured frontispiece, sepia illustrations throughout. Tall 8vo, original tan wrappers with applied coloured illustration as issued, silk cord bound. The "To/From" leaf at front inscribed, "To Joan from Mummy". A very nice copy.
Quote Item No. 6362
Price: £100.00
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GLASSE, HANNAH: Cato, or Interesting Adventures of a Dog of Sentiment: Interspersed with many Amiable Examples and Real Anecdotes. By a Lady.
London: for J. Harris, 1816.
First edition. Engraved frontispiece. 12mo, pp.(4):176, contemporary roan backed marbled boards; rubbed, headband chipped, free endpapers removed, frontispiece foxed and offset on title. Anonymous but sometimes attributed to Hannah Glasse. Rare.
Quote Item No. 8322
Price: £90.00

GOODALL, JOHN S: Shrewbettina goes to Work.
Macmillan, 1981.
Oblong 8vo, original coloured pictorial boards. Pop-ups and paper engineering by Tor Lokvig; binding, pop-ups and moving parts fine.
Quote Item No. 3518
Price: £10.00

GOODALL, JOHN S: Paddy finds a Job.
Macmillan, 1981.
Oblong 8vo, original coloured pictorial boards. Pop-ups and paper engineering by Tor Lokvig; binding, pop-ups and moving parts fine.
Quote Item No. 3519
Price: £10.00

GORDON, W. J: Rupert's Treasure and other Stories.
London: Warne, n.d. ca. 1925.
Coloured frontispiece, b & w illustrations. Large 8vo, original boards with coloured illustration pasted to upper cover as issued; generally a very good copy. Prize inscription dated 1926 on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 2820
Price: £12.00

HALL, MRS S.C. [Editor]: The Juvenile Forget Me Not for the Year 1831.
London: Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, 1831.
Engraved plates with tissue-guards. 8vo, pp.viii:224:[4, advertisements], original ornately and decoratively embossed calf, a.e.g.; corners and headbands bumped and extremely rubbed; binding edge-rubbed and with loss of surface to a narrow strip on upper cover; stitching broken to two sections, text case almost detached from binding at front; almost half front free-endpaper removed; rear end-paper removed; ink ownership signature on front-pastedown; some foxing; plates with faint stains to borders.
Quote Item No.7355
Price: £45.00

HARRISON, C. and HAMER, S.H: Master Charlie, Painter, Poet, Novelist, and Teacher, with numerous examples of his Work.
London: Cassell, 1899.
First edition. Tinted plates incorporating text throughout. 4to, pp.67:[4, adverts.], original red cloth pictorially blocked in black & yellow. Stitching slack else very good.
"I have indevored to combine amusement with instrucktion" (sic).
Quote Item No. 5440
Price: £14.00

HENTY, G.A; STABLES, GORDON; and OTHERS: THE BOY'S OWN ANNUAL 1897.
London: "The Boy's Own Paper" Office, 1897.
Contributions by G. A. Henty (the serial "The Fetish Hole"), Gordon Stables, etc. Chromolitho plates including large folding, of a football match and poultry, and numerous illustrations in the text by Louis Wain & others. 4to, pp.824, original brown cloth blocked in black & gilt; short edge tear to one folding plate else a very pleasing and bright copy.
Quote Item No. 4225
Price: £45.00

HEYGATE, REV. W.E: Godfrey Davenant at College.
London: Joseph Masters, 1849.
Number 21 in the series of "The Juvenile Englishman's Library". Small 8vo, pp.xvi:268:36 (Master's catalogue dated June 1855), with 2 leaves of advertisements at front. Original crimson cloth blocked in blind; binding a little dusty and marked but generally good. Endpapers foxed. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 8062
Price: £35.00

HIGGS, MIKE [Editor]: Dan Dare Pilot of the Future. Facsimile Reproductions from Eagle Vol. 1, No. 1 April 1950 to Vol. 2, No. 25, September 1951.
London: Hawk Books, 1988.
First edition. Illustrated in colour. Folio, original glazed paper-wrappers; crease to lower corner of front wrapper; extremely faint browning to edges; generally an extremely good copy.
Quote Item No. 7449
Price: £15.00

HIGGS, MIKE [Editor]: The Second Deluxe Collector's Edition of Dan Dare Pilot of the Future. Featuring the Red Moon Mystery and Marooned on Mercury.
London: Hawk Books, 1988.
First edition. Illustrated in colour. Folio, original glazed boards; remains of a small adhesive label to lower back cover; a slight lean to the spine; in all other respects, excellent.
Quote Item No. 7453
Price: £30.00

HIGGS, MIKE [Editor]: The Seventh Deluxe Collector's Edition of Dan Dare Pilot of the Future. Reign of the Robots Plus The Ship That Lived.
London: Hawk Books, 1993.
First edition. Illustrated in colour. Folio, original glazed boards; an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 7457
Price: £55.00

HIGGS, MIKE [Editor]: The Eighth Deluxe Collector's Edition of Dan Dare Pilot of the Future. The Phantom Fleet.
London: Hawk Books, 1993.
First edition. Illlustrated in colour. Folio, original glazed boards; some slight chips to leading edge of back cover; in all other respects, excellent.
Quote Item No. 7458
Price: £90.00

HIGGS, MIKE [Editor]: Dare: The Final Volume. The Twelfth Deluxe Collector's Edition of Dan Dare Pilot of the Future.
London: Hawk Books, 1995.
First edition. Illustrated in colour. Folio, original glazed boards; the leading edges of the bindings have been damaged in two different places where the glazed paper surface has been scraped off (one scrape half-inch long and the other, one and a quarter inch long); some shelf-wear; one corner slightly frayed.
Quote Item No. 8359
Price: £25.00

HURST, JUNE: A set of seven “Finger puppet books to read and colour”, comprising: Meet Digger; Fly Speckle Fly; A House for a Mouse; Fingal goes Home; Carry on Clementina; Sidney the Self-Sufficient Spider; & Wake Up Prickle.
Radlett, Herts: Follow Your Finger Books, ca. late 1970's or early 1980's.
Seven volumes. 8vo, original printed wrappers. Each with a removable cloth finger puppet protruding through a hole in the upper cover, as issued. Some marking to one cover else as new, uncoloured and as new.
Quote Item No. 3528
Price: £35.00

JOHNS, REV. C.A: Gardening for Children. Second Edition.
London: Charles Cox, 1849. |
Frontispiece and illustrations of gardening tools, flowers, etc. throughout. Small 8vo, pp.viii:182:(2), original crimson cloth blocked in blind; a very nice copy. Inscribed on front pastedown, "Mary Eliz'th Sayer Crawley the gift of Aunt Susan & Aunt Eliz'th Crawley, July 1850" and with Mary's little hand-embroidered bookmark loosely inserted. A charming little work.
Quote Item No. 8053
Price: £60.00

JOHNSTONE, C.I. (Christian Isobel): The Public Buildings of Westminster Described. With Twelve Engravings. By the author of "Wars of the Jews" etc.
London: John Harris, 1831.
Twelve engraved plates. Square 12mo, pp.220, publisher's quarter roan; backstrip rubbed and chipped at head and tail, stitching slack, one gathering partly detached, some foxing. In the "Little Library" series. Anon.
Quote Item No. 7471
Price: £40.00

JUVENILE BETHEL BAG MAGAZINE, THE. Volume 1 - New Series.
London: T. Ward, 1848.
Vignette illustrations. Small 8vo, pp.iv:284, original cloth gilt; front free endpaper removed, slight spotting to upper cover else very good.
Quote Item No. 2990
Price: £12.00

KINGSTON, W.H.G: In New Granada; or, Heroes and Patriots. A Tale for Boys.
London: Thomas Nelson, 1879.
Frontispiece and illustrations. 8vo, pp.368, original green cloth pictorially blocked in black and gilt; inner hinges strained, contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper, lower cover marked, binding otherwise attractive.
Quote Item No. 1001
Price: £20.00
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KINGSTON, W.H.G: Hurricane Hurry; or, The Adventures of a Naval Officer Afloat and On Shore. With illustrations by R. Huttula.
London: Griffith Farran & Co., ca 1880's.
Seventh thousand (first published 1873). Frontispiece and illustrations. 8vo, pp.viii:472, original brown cloth pictorially blocked in black, red, white and gilt, a.e.g.; corners rubbed, ink inscription, dated 1890, to recto of frontispiece, an exceptionally bright and attractive copy.
Quote Item No. 958
Price: £35.00
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KIPLING, RUDYARD: The Jungle Book with Illustrations by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. With The Second Jungle Book.
London: Macmillan, 1894.
First edition of both volumes (The Second Jungle Book published 1895). Two volumes. 8vo, original blue cloth blocked in gilt, all edges gilt. Both volumes with some rubbing at head and tail of spines, spines askew. Vertical mark to upper cover of the Second Jungle Book. The Jungle Book with signature and date "31/5/94" on front fly-leaf, The Second Jungle Book with bookplate on front pastedown. The Jungle Book with a few scuff marks on lower cover but generally a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 8446
Price: £900.00

KIPLING, RUDYARD: The Two Jungle Books. With illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling and W. H. Drake.
London: Macmillan, 1926.
Second thin paper edition. 8vo, pp.576, publisher's full red calf gilt, all edges gilt. Crease to front free endpaper and fly-leaf, prize label on front pastedown. The relatively rare leather-bound edition in generally excellent condition.
Quote Item No. 8369
Price: £50.00

LABOULAYE, EDOUARD: Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Arthur A. Dixon.
London: Ernest Nister, New York: E.P. Dutton, ca. 1908.
Pictorial title, coloured & monochrome plates, illustrations in the text. 8vo, pp.335, original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt, top edge gilt. An exceptional copy.
Quote Item No. 5904
Price: £65.00

LANG, ANDREW: The Red Book of Animal Stories. With numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford.
London: Longmans, Green, 1899.
First edition. 8vo, original red cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, all edges gilt, spine faded, rubbed at head and base of spine. Near contemporary gift inscription on endpaper. Some foxing.
Quote Item No. 7270
Price: £15.00

LANG, ANDREW: The Green Fairy Book. With numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford. Fourth Edition.
London: Longmans, Green, 1895.
8vo, original green cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, all edges gilt; headband bumped, joints a little rubbed, bookplate of Frederic Sydney Parry on front pastedown, a little foxing. Generally a bright and attractive copy.
Quote Item No. 7271
Price: £55.00

LANG, ANDREW: The Red Book of Romance. With eight coloured plates and numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford.
London: Longmans, Green, 1905.
First edition. 8vo, original red cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, all edges gilt. Upper inner hinge a little pulled. Spine faded, headband worn, short splits to lower outer joint, the upper cover still quite bright and attractive. Contemporary inscription on advertisement leaf at front.
Quote Item No. 7272
Price: £15.00

LANG, ANDREW: The Yellow Fairy Book. With numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford.
London: Longmans, Green, 1894.
First edition. 8vo, original yellow cloth elaborately blocked in gilt, all edges gilt. Spine faded, binding a little marked or dusty but generally a not unattractive copy. Slight lean to spine. Old name on half-title. Some foxing.
Quote Item No. 7277
Price: £75.00

LANG, ANDREW: The True Story Book. With numerous illustrations by L. Bogle, Lucien Davis, H.J. Ford ... etc.
London: Longmans, 1893.
First edition. 8vo, pp.337, original blue cloth blocked pictorially in gilt; head and base of spine a trifle rubbed but generally a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 2629
Price: £25.00

LE MAIR, H. WILLEBEEK: Grannie's Little Rhyme Book. No. 1 of Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by H. Willebeek Le Mair.
London: Augener Ltd, n.d.
Illustrated in colour, one illustration per page within a floriate border, text in similar border opposite. Oblong 8vo (4 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), pp.28, original pictorial boards; binding edge-rubbed; neat ink name on f.f.e.; in all other respects, extremely good.
Quote Item No. 7345
Price: £30.00

LE MAIR, H. WILLEBEEK: Auntie's Little Rhyme Book. No. 3 of Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by H. Willebeek Le Mair.
London: Augener Ltd, n.d.
Illustrated in colour with one illustration per page within a foliate border, page of text opposite in similar border. Oblong 8vo (4½ x 6¼ inches), original pictorial boards; corners and headbands bumped and rubbed; edges rubbed; upper headband chipped with some loss of paper surface; lower spine chipped with some loss of paper surface; neat pencil name on f.f.e.; in all other respects very good, still an attractive copy.
Quote Item No. 7346
Price: £30.00

MAC-GREGOR, BARRINGTON: King Long Beard, or Annals of the Golden Dreamland.
London: John Lane, 1898.
Frontispiece, decorative title, illustrations and decorations throughout by Charles Robinson. Square 8vo, pp.262:1:12 (adverts.) original cloth gilt; binding very faded and soiled, inner hinges cracked.
Quote Item No. 386
Price: £40.00

MAETERLINCK, MAURICE (Translated by Alfred Sutro): The Buried Temple.
London: George Allen, 1902.
First English edition. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, pp.[viii]:276:[1, publisher's list], original green cloth decoratively blocked in black and gilt; some foxing, else an attractive copy.
Quote Item No. 1731
Price: £22.00
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MALASSEZ, MME J: Sable-Plage. Une Saison Aux Bains de Mer. Ouvrage Illustre de 37 Gravures.
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1984.
Engraved plates. 8vo, pp.224, original blue cloth delightfully and elaborately blocked in gilt on spine and upper cover (a winged cherub is seated on a plinth, blowiing a horn and flanked by urns of flowers and fruit), a.e.g.; headbands and corners bumped and rubbed; foxing to title-page and some leaves of text (some quite severely); despite all an extremely good copy.
Quote Item No. 7309
Price: £20.00

MALET, LUCAS: Little Peter, a Christmas Morality for Children of Any Age. With numerous illustrations by Paul Hardy.
London: Kegan, Paul 1888.
First edition. 8vo, pp.viii:168, original blue cloth blocked in black & gilt. Small snag to upper cover, one corner rubbed, else a very good copy. Inscription dated Xmas 1887 on front fly-leaf.
Quote Item No. 3463
Price: £10.00

MEADE, L.T. - BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON - CAREY, ROSA N. - YONGE, CHARLOTTE M. - PRAED, MRS. CAMPBELL - WAIN, LOUIS and OTHERS: The Girl's Realm Annual.
London: Hutchinson, 1899.
Various illustrators including Louis Wain and Tom Browne. Large thick 8vo, pp.1272, original crimson cloth blocked in blind and gilt; spine dulled, some small white spots to upper cover. The backstrip has at one time been torn but has been neatly repaired. School prize label on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 8341
Price: £32.00

MEDHURT, COPE: Thirteen Fairy Stories. As Told to Betty, Sylvia and Norman. Illustrated.
Llandudno: Evans & Evans, n.d.
Portrait frontispiece, two-tone plates with tissue-guards. 4to, pp.160, original cream cloth lettered and blocked in gilt and blue, untrimmed; spine browned; foxing to prelims, page edges and slightly to some plates; one tissue-guard torn-out; one leaf of text suffering a 7.5cm tear (no loss); upper cover slightly rubbed with faint loss of blue to decorative blocking.
Quote Item No. 7298
Price: £25.00
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MILMAN, ROBERT: The Mystery of Marking, a Parable for Children.
London: Joseph Masters, 1839.
First edition. Vignette on title. 12mo, pp.86, original pale blue printed wrappers; wrappers partly detached and chipped at backstrip. Prelims. partly detached, some browning on inner margins. Rare. Anonymous.
"Marking" as in the embroidery of samplers.
Quote Item No. 8052
Price: £30.00

MITFORD MARY R: Anna Fitzgerald; or, The Three Half-Crowns.
London: Warne, n.d. ca. 1890's.
Frontispiece and illustrations. Small 8vo, original decorated red cloth blocked in colours; inner joints cracked else a good copy.
Quote Item No. 7136
Price: £25.00

NOVELTY: Do-It cloth books – I Can Dress Myself, Can You? - My Zipper Book
Random House, 1981.
Printed in colour on cloth in the shape of a jacket with a metal zip-fastener. New and still in the original unopened packaging and probably unique thus.
Quote Item No. 3522
Price: £12.00

NOVELTY: Do-It cloth books – I Can Dress Myself, Can You? - My Shoelace Book.
Random House, 1981.
Printed in colour on cloth in the shape of a shoe with a real shoelace threaded through metal eyelets. New and still in the original unopened packaging and probably unique thus.
Quote Item No. 3523
Price: £12.00

NOVELTY: Little Traveller Train Book - Fun Land, Zoo Land, City Land. No Batteries Needed. Unique Clockwork Action. 3 Lands to Explore.
Purnell, n.d. but late 1970's or early 1980's.
Oblong 4to, original ring-bound coloured pictorial boards with clockwork train in bubble on upper cover. The train apparently designed to travel on tracks on the pages, stopping next to illustrations; still in the original shrink-wrap and unopened. The shrink wrap split else fine and as new and as such probably unique
Quote Item No. 3517
Price: £15.00

PARRY, EDWARD ABBOTT: Butterscotia or a Cheap Trip to Fairy Land by His Honour Edward Abbott Parry. Illustrated by Archie Macgregor.
London: David Nutt, 1896.
First edition. Plates, illustrations, and folding map. 8vo, pp.170:2:12(publisher's catalogue), original tan cloth pictorially blocked in brown. Name erased from front pastedown with surface paper loss, spine a little browned but generally a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 5915
Price: £40.00

PERIODICAL: The Tiny Library. A Weekly Journal for the Entertainment and Instruction of Young Persons. Volume 1 (Numbers 1-15).
London: C. Wood & Co., March 7th - May 30th 1846.
Woodcut illustrations throughout. Small square 8vo, pp.248, original blindstamped grained cloth decoratively blocked in gilt, a.e.g.; some pale marking to the binding but generally very good.
Quote Item No.3377
Price: £35.00

PERIODICAL: The Child's Own Magazine. Sixty-ninth Annual Volume.
London: 57 & 59 Ludgate Hill, 1902.
Coloured frontispiece "The Magic Lantern", coloured portrait of Edward VII & Queen Alexandra, other illustrations. Square 8vo, pp.148, original blue pictorial cloth blocked in colours; very good.
Quote Item No. 5439
Price: £12.00

PERIODICAL: The Bible Society Gleanings for the Young. January - December 1892.
London: The Bible House, 1892.
Illustrations. Small square 8vo, pp.144, original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt, all edges gilt. Prize label on front pastedown. Very good.
Quote Item No. 5350
Price: £12.00

POTTER, BEATRIX: The Tale of the Faithful Dove. Illustrated by Marie Angel.
London: Frederick Warne, 1971.
First edition thus. Small square 8vo, original coloured pictorial boards; fine in dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 3325
Price: £18.00

PRENTISS, E: Aunt Jane's Hero and Stepping Heavenward.
London: Routledge, n.d.
8vo, pp.265:306:(8, adverts. dated 1891), original pictorial cloth blocked in colours. Prize label on endpaper, inner upper hinge strained else very good.
Quote Item No. 2819
Price: £12.00

RICKS, GEORGE: Hand-and-Eye Training. Being a Development of the Kindergarten for Junior and Senior Scholars. Book II - For Boys.
London: Cassell, 1889.
16 coloured plates. 4to, pp.64, together with advertisements. Original cloth; remains of old label at base of spine. With the library stamp of Raining College Library throughout. A few plates detached. Pencil drawing of submarine on recto of frontispiece. A manual of woodwork training for boys.
Quote Item No. 8166
Price: £25.00

RUSKIN, JOHN - KATE GREENAWAY: Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her seven wonderful cats: A Humorous Tale written principally by a Lady of Ninety. Edited, with additional verses, by John Ruskin and with New Illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
Orpington: George Allen, 1885.
A reprint of the edition of 1823 with the original woodcuts, with additional verses by Ruskin and four illustrations by Kate Greenaway. 8vo, pp.20, original cloth. Binding spotted and marked, juvenile pencil scribbling on blank backs of three leaves, inner joints slack.
Quote Item No. 6069
Price: £10.00

ST LEGER, HUGH: An Ocean Outlaw.
London: Blackie, n.d. (ca. 1930's).
8vo, pp.319, original cloth; a very good copy in d.w. The d.w. with slight nick at head of spine, else very good indeed.
Quote Item No. 2709
Price: £22.00
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SAYWELL, FREDERIC B: The Clever Little Tailor or Seven at a Blow. Illustrated by Herbert J. Harvey.
London: Halton & Truscot Smith, ca. 1932.
First edition. 12 tipped-in coloured plates. 4to, pp.56, original black cloth. Lean to spine. Upper inner joint pulled. Prize inscription dated 1932 on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 6109
Price: £24.00

SEDGWICK, MISS [CATHARINE MARIA]: The Poor Rich Man, and the Rich Poor Man. The third edition.
London: for Thomas Tegg, 1837.
Engraved frontispiece, title vignette. Square 12mo, pp.247, contemporary quarter black calf; binding rubbed and slightly chipped at headband, upper inner joint cracked but very firm.
An improving tale set in New England.
Quote Item No. 5515
Price: £30.00

SHANNON, MONICA: Dobry. Illustrated by Atanas Katchamakoff.
London: Harrap, 1936.
First edition. Coloured double-page frontispiece, plates and illustrations. 8vo, pp.192, original blue cloth blocked in black; a very good copy in like d.w. Presentation label on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 2786
Price: £18.00

SHEPHERD, J.A: The Three Jovial Puppies. Rhymes by E.D. Cuming.
London: Blackie, n.d. [ca. 1911].
First edition. Coloured pictorial title, coloured illustrations throughout. Small folio, original cloth-backed boards with coloured illustration mounted to upper cover as issued; upper inner joint tender and split at wire binding staples; corners bumped else very good.
Inscription dated Xmas 1912 on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 2993
Price: £125.00

SHOBERL, FREDERIC: Natural History of Quadrupeds. With illustrations by Thomas Landseer; the subjects engraved on steel by himself.
London: John Harris, 1834.
Many figures on 32 plates. Two volumes. Square 12mo, pp.vi:(2):279 & (2):252:(32, publisher's list), original publishers quarter calf; spines rubbed at head and tail, spine of volume 2 a little chipped at head. Some foxing, a few corners turned, joint cracked at page 1 in Volume 2 but firm; generally quite presentable.
In the "Little Library" series.
Quote Item No. 5065
Price: £75.00

SOWTER, NITA: Hey Diddle Diddle.
Blackie, 1982.
8vo, original glazed coloured pictorial boards; opening out to for a continuous strip with figures designed to be pressed-out - “Press out the figures, stand them up and the nursery rhyme comes to life!”. Fortunately this copy has never been "pressed out" and is in fine unused condition.
Quote Item No. 3521
Price: £15.00

STABLES, DR GORDON: How Jack Mackenzie Won His Epaulettes. A Story of the Crimean War.
London: Nelson, 1896.
With four maps and six illustrations by A. Pearce. 8vo, pp.[9]:10-373:[2, publisher's list], original blue cloth pictorially blocked in black and gilt; headbands and corners a little bumped and rubbed, otherwise a bright copy. Sunday School Presentation label pasted to f.f.e.
Quote Item No. 931
Price: £25.00
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STABLES, DR GORDON: By Land and Sea. A Tale of the Blue and the Scarlet.
London and New York: Warne,1890.
Frontispiece, chapter-head and tail vignettes, plates. 8vo, pp.[8]:9-352, original green cloth pictorially blocked in black and gilt; fore-corner of f.f.e. clipped, inner hinges strained, generally very good. Contemporary ink inscription on half-title.
Quote Item No. 936
Price: £25.00
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STABLES, DR GORDON: In Search of Fortune. A Tale of the Old Land and the New.
London: Shaw, n.d. [c.1900].
New edition. 8vo, pp.viii:384:(16, publisher's list) original orange cloth pictorially blocked in colours, a.e.g.
Quote Item No. 959
Price: £12.00

STEWART, ELIZABETH M: Original Poetry, for Young Persons.
London: T. Allman, ca. 1850's.
Engraved frontispiece. 12mo, original crimson cloth blocked in blind & gilt. Short split to upper joint; stitching slack, one gathering partly detached, some foxing or browning.
Quote Item No. 212
Price: £25.00

STOKES, VERNON & HARNETT, CYNTHIA: Bob-Tail Pup.
London: Collins, 1944.
First edition. Illustrations, partly in colour. 4to, original cloth. Binding slightly edge faded otherwise very good in in torn and sellotape repaired d.w.
Quote Item No. 5240
Price: £25.00

STOKES, VERNON & HARNETT, CYNTHIA: Two and a Bit.
London: Collins, 1948.
First edition. Illustrations, partly in colour. 4to, original cloth backed coloured illustrated boards. One scratch mark on upper cover else very clean & bright.
Quote Item No. 5239
Price: £15.00

STOKES, VERNON & HARNETT, CYNTHIA: Follow my Leader.
London: Collins, 1949.
First edition. Illustrations, partly in colour. 4to, original cloth; very good in torn & chipped d.w.
Quote Item No. 5238
Price: £18.00

STRANG, HERBERT [Editor]: The Oxford Annual for Boys - 21st Year.
London: Oxford University Press, 1928.
Coloured frontispiece and plates, illustrations. 4to, pp.240, original pictorial boards (of airman and plane). An exceptional copy in partially foxed d.w. The d.w. chipped at head of spine and at rear.
Quote Item No. 2822
Price: £25.00

TAYLOR, JEFFERYS: The Farm; a New Account of Rural Toils and Produce. With eight engravings on steel and twenty-six on wood.
London: John Harris, 1832.
Eight steel engraved plates, woodcut plates and illustrations in the text. Square 12mo, pp.175:(6, publisher's list), publisher's quarter calf; base of spine chipped, some foxing, a few corners turned. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; generally quite presentable.
In the "Little Library" series.
Quote Item No. 5066
Price: £25.00

TAYLOR, JEFFERYS: The Forest; or, Rambles in the Woodland.
London: John Harris, 1831.
First edition. Engraved frontispiece and 25 engraved plates of trees and leaves (complete). Square 12mo, pp.220, original glazed cloth with printed paper labels; spine labels dulled, some foxing but generally very good.
A volume in the "Little Library" series
Quote Item No. 5061
Price: £35.00

TEGG, THOMAS: A Present for an Apprentice. To which is added Franklin's Way to Wealth. Second edition.
London: William Tegg, 1848.
Engraved frontispiece and additional title, engraved plate, "A Moral and Physical Thermometer". Small square 8vo, pp. xiv:(1):381, original blue cloth, the sides armorially blocked in gilt within decorative border, the spine pictorially blocked in gilt. Inner hinges reinforced with cloth tape, stitching split between title and dedication; the binding, however, generally very bright and attractive.
With, on front-pastedown an attractive engraved presentation label, filled-in by hand and dated 1876, "The Master Wardens and Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers. To Alfred T. Bouette on his being Bound Apprentice to Mr Charles Maw, Citizen and Spectacle Maker of London".
An interesting manual of suggested conduct regarding temperance, the dangers of playhouses, the value of virtuous female intercourse, cleanliness, gaming and sharpers, and much else. The "Moral and Physical Thermometer" shows that the consumption of water leads to health and wealth whereas the consumption of Whisky leads to murder and suicide at worst, apoplexy and transportation to Botany Bay at best.
Quote Item No. 2102
Price: £55.00

THE LITTLE LIBRARY: The Garden; or, Familiar Instructions For The Laying Out and Management of a Flower Garden with Illustrative Engravings on Wood and Steel.
London: John Harris, 1832.
Second edition. Twelve hand-coloured engraved plates of flowers, two detached but present, and other plates. Square 12mo, pp.x:175, original half calf; corners bumped; boards and edges rubbed; headband broken and a piece missing; inner joints cracked; some light foxing, coloured plates however unaffected; armorial bookplate of Anne Cooper to front pastedown; inscription to f.f.e.
Part of "The Little Library, Comprising, in a Series of Small Volumes, a Familiar Introduction to Various Branches of Useful Knowledge."
Quote Item No. 7356
Price: £60.00

THOMPSON, DORA OLIVE: Lizzie Anne. With Illustrations by E.P. Kinsella. Inscribed by author.
London: The "Girls' Own Paper" Office, n.d., 1927.
Colour frontispiece with tissue-guard, black & white vignette illustrations. 8vo, pp.288, original orange cloth blocked pictorially in black in dustwrapper; dustwrapper with a number of chips and tears (very small amount of loss) some slight creasing; slight foxing and browning to prelimns; the author has inscribed the quote from Plutarch (which appears in a printed version on the reverse of the title page), on the front free endpaper., signed in full and dated Christmas 1927. Generally an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 7351
Price: £50.00
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THORN, ISMAY [pseud. of Edith Caroline Pollock ]: All Play. Pictured by T. Pym [pseud. of Clara Creed].
London: Shaw & Co. n.d. ca. 1890.
Illustrations throughout. Oblong 8vo, pp.169:6 (adverts.), original pictorial cloth; covers badly damp-marked, a little light foxing.
Quote Item No. 5243
Price: £10.00

THORN, ISMAY [pseud. of Edith Caroline Pollock]: Spin and Podgie. What they did, what they learnt, where they went, in one day. With Illustrations by T. Pym [pseud. of Clara Creed].
London: Hatchards, 1886.
First edition. Frontispiece & illustrations throughout. Square 8vo, pp. 47:49-64(adverts.) original pictorial cloth; binding severely damp-marked, stitching cracked on inner joint at several places. Inscribed on front free endpaper by the illustrator and with a carte-de-visite photograph of her loosely inserted
Quote Item No. 5244
Price: £20.00

TONNA, C.A: Derry: A Tale of the Revolution of 1688. By Charlotte Elizabeth.
London: James Nisbet, ca. 1890's.
Frontispiece. 8vo, pp.xvi:317:[3, publisher's list], original dark blue cloth pictorially blocked in black and lettered in gilt. Contemporary ink inscription to verso of front free endpaper. Bright. Anon.
Quote Item No. 984
Price: £10.00

TRIMMER, MRS [SARAH]: A Series of Prints of Scripture History, Designed as Ornaments for those Apartments in which Children receive the first Rudiments of their Education.
London: John Marshal, No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, n.d. [1786].
Thirty-two copper engraved plates. 12mo, contemporary full sheep ruled in gilt; lacking backstrip, tear, with no loss, on inner margin of one plate. The first plate is dated 1786 within the imprint. With the engraved armorial bookplate of Thos. Blayds.
* Mrs. Trimmer's name does not appear on this work. This volume of plates was designed to accompany her, "A description of a set of prints of scripture history" .
Quote Item No. 5059
Price: £55.00

UPTON, FLORENCE & BERTHA: The Golliwogg's "Auto - Go - Cart".
London: Longmans, Green, 1901.
First edition. Pictorial title and 31 coloured plates, one being double-page. Oblong 4to, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Boards a little marked and rubbed, corners rubbed, backstrip spotted. A few marginal tears, crease to endpaper, a little light thumbing but generally quite a good copy.
Quote Item No. 4292
Price: £195.00
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UPTON, FLORENCE & BERTHA: The Golliwogg's Air-Ship.
London: Longmans, Green, 1902.
First edition. Pictorial title & 31 coloured plates, one being double-page. Oblong 4to, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards. Boards rubbed especially at corners, some loss of paper surface to lower board; a few page corners turned, a few marginal short tears, stitching slack.
Quote Item No. 4291
Price: £195.00
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VALENTINE, MRS: Peril and Adventure by Land and Sea.
London: Warne, n.d. c.1910.
Frontispiece "Rorke's Drift" and plates. 8vo, pp.224, original pictorial cloth blocked in colours. Contemporary signature on title. An excellent copy. Rousing tales for Boys.
Quote Item No. 920
Price: £10.00

WARD, STANHOPE EDGAR: Fairy Tales.
Farnham, Surrey: E.W. Langham, 1895.
Vignette illustrations. 4to, pp.60, original printed wrappers, uncut; backstrip chipped at head and tail, else an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 1426
Price: £20.00

WEATHERLY, F.E: Out of Town. Illustrated in colour by Linnie Watt, monotints by Ernest Wilson.
London: Hildesheimer and Faulkner, n.d. [1884].
First [& only?] edition. Charming chromolithographic illustrations throughout. 4to, pp. 64, original cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards in d.w. A remarkably good copy, the binding fresh and bright. The d.w. browned and edge chipped on upper panel, chipped at backstrip and chipped and torn on lower panel. Printing of advertisements on endpapers faded. Some minor rubbing to the fore-corners of the boards but generally an excellent copy and very rare in d.w.
Quote Item No. 5216
Price: £90.00
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WHISHAW, FRED: The Adventures of a Stowaway. Illustrated by J.A. Christie.
London: Griffith Farran Browne & Co., ca. 1900.
Frontispiece and illustrations. 8vo, pp.300:[4, publisher's list], original brown cloth pictorially block in colours and gilt; some foxing. Contemporary ink inscription to front-pastedown. The binding bright and attractive.
Quote Item No. 995
Price: £12.00

WHISTLER, CHAS. W: A Thane of Wessex. Being a Story of the Great Viking Raids into Somerset.
London: Blackie, 1896.
Frontispiece and illustrations. 8vo, pp.288:32, [publisher's list], original olive green cloth pictorially blocked in red, black and gilt; slight marking to upper cover; generally a bright and attractive copy. Contemporary ink inscription to verso of front free endpaper. 4-page publisher's advertisement, 'New Books for Young People 1895-96', loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 992
Price: £15.00
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WHITE, ANNIE F: Jack and Jill and the Fairies.
Ilfracombe (Duration Address): Arthur H. Stockwell, ca. 1940.
8vo, pp.20, original wrappers; wire staples rusted, wrappers a little marked. Signed by the author on title.
Quote Item No. 5900
Price: £10.00

WHITE, N. DUNCAN: Horatio & Some Others: Horatio Runs a Race; The Rajah's Story; The Circus; Good Turns; Kidnapped; Treasure Quest; Fire; & Over the Hills. Being the complete 8 volumes in the 1st and 2nd series.
London: F. Levy & Co. n.d. ca. 1940's.
The first four titles (the first series) are anonymous and the illustrator is not identified. The second four titles (the second series) the author is given as N. Duncan White and the illustrator as Doris White.
Eight volumes. Coloured illustrations throughout. 8vo, original coloured pictorial card wrappers; very good indeed and free from inscriptions.
Rare, especially so the first series; and rarer still to find the whole set in such excellent condition.
Quote Item No.3577
Price: £100.00
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WILLMAN, STANLEY V: Games for Playtime & Parties, with & without Music for Children of all Ages. Pictured by Margaret Tarrant.
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, n.d.
Coloured frontispiece, title, & illustrations throughout. Folio, pp.81, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards; some foxing and dustmarking, boards foxed & marked, upper inner hinge strained.
Quote Item No. 4101
Price: £15.00

WILSON, BARBARA KER; GREENHAM, HAZEL; RICHARDS, PHYLLIS; WILLCOX, K.M.; HOGG, GARRY; VAUGHAN, CAROL; VAN SOMEREN, LIESJE; and MANNIN, ETHEL: The Kennedys Abroad: 11 titles in this series: Ann & Peter in Paris, in Scotland, in Northern Italy, in Switzerland, in London, in Norway, in Greece, in Belgium, in Yougoslavia, in Rome, & in Austria.
London: Muller, 1963, 1964, 1960, 1965, 1965, 1961, 1966, 1962, 1962, 1963, & 1962.
All first editions, illustrated. 8vo, original cloth and all very good indeed in excellent d.w's.
Quote Item No. 2756
Price: £40.00

WRIGHT, NORMAN: The Dan Dare Dossier. Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future.
London: Hawk Books, 1990.
First edition. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Folio, pp.96, original glazed boards; an excellent copy.
Quote Item No. 7446
Price: £30.00

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