Children's Books
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Flower Fairies Of The Autumn. With the Nuts and Berries they Bring.
London: Blackie and Son Ltd, no date. Duodecimo (15 x 12 cm). Publisher's light brown patterned cloth with a coloured plate of 'The Hawthorn Fairy' to the front in a warmly illustrated dust jacket, priced 2/6. Slightly bumped to the lower spine and corners with a hint of a lean..... More
An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., c.1900. AN ILLUSTRATED PICTURE BOOK. Slim oversized octavo, pp.22. Bound in publisher's decorated paper-covered boards, depicting two men in Georgian attire holding a portrait of a lady in side profile. Front and rear pastedown illustrated with full colour plates. Publisher's advertisement to rear. A...... More
The Pied Piper of Hamelin. A Child's Story by Robert Browning, set forth in a series of designs and decorative borders by Harry Quilter, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, and written in ornamental text by Mary, his wife.
London: Harry Quilter, 1898. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST QUILTER-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (33 x 27cm), pp.[60]. Every page sumptuously engraved with illustrations and wide decorative margins by Harry and Mary Quilter. Each leaf separated with a tissue guard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. A clean..... More
Tales From Shakespeare. With Twelve Illustrations in Permanent Photography from the Boydell Gallery.
London: Bickers and Son, 1888. [Shakespeare] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 386; [2]. With twelve photogravure illustrations including a frontispiece. Red full calf to boards, double-ruled in gilt. Green label with gilt titles, gilt tooling, and raised bands to spine. Gilt dentelle to board edges and turn..... More
Little Peter: A Christmas Morality for Children of any Age.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1888. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, ex libris Maurice Baring. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.viii; 168. With nine wood engraved plates by Hardy, including a frontispiece, as well as in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt and illustrations in black to spine and..... More
Ludo and the Star Horse.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1974. [Children's Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.128. With occasional in-text illustrations by D'Achille. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and orange endpapers. Top edge brown. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by D'Achille. Slight surface scuffing to title page. Some bumping..... More
Emmett's Pig. Pictures by Garth Williams.
London: The World's Work, 1963. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.61; [3]. Publisher's quarter green cloth, colour illustrated paper over boards, titles in green and black to upper. Title page in green and black, colour illustrations throughout. Internally clean and crisp. Light wearing to board edges with..... More
Rupert Little Bear More Stories.
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co, 1939. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm). Illustrative front and back boards with red and black lettering picturing the characters from the Rupert stories. Coloured illustrative frontispiece, two colour title page, two coloured text used throughout, illustrations throughout. Shaken in case, toning..... More
Mary Poppins Comes Back.
London: Lovat Dickson and Thompson Ltd., 1935. [Classic Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.303; [1], imprint; [1], blank. With black and white illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth blocked in green, illustrated endpapers, top edge green, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 5s. Some marginal soiling to pp.80-81 else contents clean..... More
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