The comic adventures of old dame Trot, and her cat: correctly printed from the original in the Hubbardonian Library.

London: Griffith and Farran, c.1860. 17cm. 16 hand coloured leaves laid down on linen, including wraps. Original printed red glazed-card wraps. Rear wrapper lists 'works for the young' Linen reinforcement to spine; some loss to void area of front wrap. Without the title page as issued - present in earlier editions. DISCOVER: Oxford, CUL.

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Book number: 45055

Catalogue: Juvenile & Childrens

Keywords: JUVENILE & CHILDRENS illustrated Nursery rhymes, English.

The courtship, merry marriage, and pic nic dinner, of Cock Robin, and Jenny Wren. To which is added, alas! the doleful death of the bridegroom.

London: printed for J. Harris and Son, 1820 1st edition thus. 18cm. [ii], frontis, 16 hand-coloured leaves printed alternately on verso and recto, numbered 2 to 17. Original printed rear card wrap. Lacks front wrap, but with original rear wrap with circular advert for Harris's 'Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction'; extremes worn; lightly soiled. Moon 1421. Bodleian hold an 1822 edition with the same imprint.

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Book number: 46417

Catalogue: Juvenile & Childrens

Keywords: JUVENILE & CHILDRENS Juvenile literature - 19th century Illustrated

[JONES, Stephen.]

Rudiments of reason; or, the young experimental philosopher: being a series of family conferences; in which the causes and effects of the various phenomena that nature daily exhibits, are rationally and familiarly explained. Vol. II.

London: printed for E. Newbery, 1793. 12mo. [2], 186pp, text table. Original vellum-backed marbled boards. Binding rubbed with wear to boards. Volume II only. The three volume set is held at BL, CUL and Oxford. Contributions by 'Sir Thomas Howard' and 'Lady Caroline', among others, on two topics:' Hydraulics and Hydrostatics' (3rd conference) and 'On air, musical and common sounds, and wind' (4th conference).

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Book number: 44792

Catalogue: Juvenile Literature

Keywords: Juvenile literature Physics Early works to 1800

The true history of Zoa, the beautiful Indian, daughter of Henrietta de Bellgrave; and of Rodomond, an East-India merchant, whom Zoa releases from confinement and intended death; and with him makes her escape from her father, and Indian Banyan of Bombay; who was the occasion of Rodomond's imprisonment and dreadful sufferings. To which are added The interesting history of the shepherdess of Chamouny; and The affecting life of poor Lise and Login.

London: published by T. Hughes, Ludgate Street, N.D. 16cm. [3], 8-40pp, hand coloured frontis by S. Fisher. Disbound. General age-browning. CUL hold a T. Hughes, Ludgate Street edition which they date [1804?] - no frontis is mentioned. Oxford have this precise edition [3], 8-40pp with 1801 Fisher frontis; they give dates of [between ca.1810 and 1830?] Hughes was active during the first decade of the nineteenth century,

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Book number: 46437

Catalogue: Juvenile & Childrens

Keywords: JUVENILE & CHILDRENS East Indians ; Juvenile fiction. Chapbooks - England - London - 1810. Chapbooks - England - York - 1810. Fiction Gothic novels - England - London - 1810. Gothic novels - England - York - 1810. Illustrated Juvenile literature - English

CARROLL, Lewis.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. ... illustrated ... by Harry Rountree.

[Glasgow]: The Children's Press, N.D. 4to. 135pp, colour frontis, title-page vignette, 7 colour plates, text illustrations. Original quarter orange cloth lettered in black, pictorial colour-printed boards. Spine a little sun-faded; board corners rubbed with slight wear.

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Book number: 37702

Catalogue: Juvenile & Childrens

Keywords: JUVENILE & CHILDRENS ILLUSTRATED

HOFLAND, Mrs. (Barbara) 1770-1844.

The son of genius; a tale, for the use of youth.

London: printed for J. Harris, corner of St. Paul's Church-yard, and Simpkins and Marshall, Stationers'-Court, 1818 new edition. 12mo in sixes. vii[i], 172pp, frontis. Original half maroon roan, red calf gilt spine label, paper sides. Binding rubbed with wear to extremes; frontis and title browned; very light occasional spotting to text. Also available with a green roan spine. Moon 374 (4); Gumuchian 3057. Moon notes that an article in the Q.R. of 1844 describes the book as 'a very beautiful tale, and in the best of this lady's numerous little books, which are mostly too much of the novelette style to recommend.' DISCOVER: Reading Univ, CUL, NLW.

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Book number: 44068

Catalogue: Juvenile & Childrens

Keywords: JUVENILE & CHILDRENS Fiction Conduct of life ; Juvenile fiction. Fiction Illustrated Juvenile literature - English - 19th century. Publishers' advertisements - England - 19th century.