By the author of ‘Dick, the Little Poney’.

Bob, the Spotted Terrrier; or, Memoirs of the Dog of Knowledge. Supposed to Be Written by Himself.

London: Whittingham and Arliss, No date (c.1820). Reprint, 16mo., pp.xii,155, red leather-backed marbled boards, gilt, woodcut vignette to title, 16 further woodcuts; occasional light foxing to contents, boards lightly rubbed, with wear to corners, professional repair to headband and head of upper joint, a very good copy. First published 1801 as A Dog of Knowledge.

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Book number: 12352

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AVRACH, Joseph. Illustrated by: JOHNSTON, Arnrid.

Timbu the Monkey.

London: Peter Lunn, 1944. First edition, oblong 8vo., pp.(26), pictorial paper-covered boards, colour illustrations throughout; rubbing to paper covering at extremities, light surface soil to boards, internally clean and fresh, overall a very good copy indeed.

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Book number: 34317

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Illustrated by BALFOUR, Ronald.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

London: Constable and Company Limited, 1920. First edition thus, 4to., cream paper-covered boards, gilt, with inlaid circular colour plate to front board, tipped-in colour frontispiece and 5 further colour plates, 18 tipped-in b/w plates, 14 tipped-in b/w plates with colour accents, and 39 vignettes; small ink ownership inscription (dated 1920) to upper margin of front free endpaper, light toning/foxing to endpapers, otherwise internally fresh and very good indeed (plates are fine and without creasing), toning to spine and margins of boards, small closed tear to headband, light vertical crease to spine, light marking to boards (small water stain to front board, and extensive water-stain to rear board), rubbing and slight wear to extremities, overall a very good copy.

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Book number: 34723

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

Keywords: Poetry

BANNERMAN, Helen.

The Story of Little Black Sambo. (the Dumpy Books for Children, No. 4)

London: Chatto and Windus, 1914. Twelfth edition, 16mo., pp.113, pictorial olive-green cloth stamped and lettered in black and red, 27 colour plates; ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, two creases to upper corner of front free endpaper, fingermarking and occasional light marking throughout, just slightly shaken, ink-stain to lower margin of front board, rubbing to extremities, a good(+) copy.

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Book number: 33208

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

BARCLAY, John. Translated from the Latin into English for the first time, from the 1605 edition, by Paul Turner. Illustrated with ten wood engravings by Derek Harris.

Euphormio's Satyricon (Euphormionis Satyricon).

London: Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1954. Limited edition, no.227 of 260 copies, 4to., pp.(ii),158, full pictorial vellum, gilt, mould-made paper, pictorial frontispiece and title, b/w wood-engraved plates with borders in red, pictorial headpieces to prelims; just slight bruising to upper corners of boards, very slight surface soil to boards, overall a fine, fresh copy. Designed and produced by Christopher Sandford; composition and presswork under the supervision of K.S. Tollit at The Chiswick Press.

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Book number: 36688

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Keywords: Illustrated

BARRIE, J.M. Introduction by Andrew Birkin. Illustrated by Paula Rego.

Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up.

London: The Folio Society, 1992. Demy 8vo., pp.xxx,106, pictorial blue cloth stamped in silver, 15 colour plates; a fine copy, in very good slipcase.

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Book number: 38038

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BEDIER, Joseph. Illustrations de: ENGELS, Robert.

Le Roman de Tristan Et Iseut.

Paris: L’Edition D’Art, H. Piazza, (1914). First, limited edition, no.20 of 525 copies on japon paper, one of only 25 illustrated copies, large 8vo., pp.197, uncut, paper wrappers, gilt, colour illustrations, b/w illustrations and decorations; internally fresh and fine, a very good copy indeed.

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Book number: 33693

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

Keywords: Arthurian Literature

BLAKE, William. With Description and Bibliographical Statement by Geoffrey Keynes.

America, a Prophecy.

London: Published by The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, 1963. Limited edition, no.84 of 526 copies, folio, pp.XVI (unpaginated full colour facsimile),(vii), quarter black morocco, gilt, marbled paper-covered boards, t.e.g., frontispiece and pictorial title, 16 plates; ex library but unmarked save for white-lettered stamp reading ‘Quarto MA’ and small re-coloured section both to front board, and vestiges of a small removed plate to lower corner of rear paste-down endpaper, pale foxing to prelims and occasional spots to margins of plates, pale foxing to fore-edges, a very good copy, housed in vg marbled slipcase, which has light wear to corners and small area of loss (3 x 2 cms) to paper covering at corner of base panel. ‘Printed on Arches pure rag paper made to match that used by Blake. Each page is watermarked with Blake’s monogram. The illuminated pages were reproduced in Paris by Trianon Press in the workshops of MM Hourdebaigt and Crampe by the collotype and stencil process. The binding by Engel, Paris.’

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Book number: 38293

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Keywords: Private Press

BLAKE, William.

Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion.

London: The Trianon Press, for The William Blake Trust, 1974. Limited facsimile edition, no.72 of 558, folio., pp.25(plates),(8)trial proofs,(9)commentary & bibliographical history, quarter morocco, gilt, hand-marbled paper-covered boards, in matching marbled paper covered handmade slipcase, printed on Arches pure rag paper, each leaf watermarked with Blake’s monogram, 25 full colour plates (each printed on separate leaf with verso blank), reproduced by collotype and hand stencil; spine slightly darkened & with very minor marking, an internally fine copy, in a very good slipcase.

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Book number: 12525

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

DU BOIS, William Pene.

Otto in Africa.

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1962. First UK edition, tall 8vo., pp.(xxxvii), textured yellow pictorial paper-covered boards, lettered and stamped in red, pictorial endpapers, double-page title in colour, double-page colour plates with accompanying text throughout; a couple of tiny nicks to top edges of boards, a very good copy indeed, in very good(+) pictorial price-clipped dust-jacket, which has 1cm closed tear to foot of spine, slight rubbing to extremities, and slight surface soil, as well as a little partial darkening - now in a protective cover.

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Book number: 34768

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BOND, Michael. Illustrated by: FORTNUM, Peggy.

A Bear Called Paddington.

London: Collins, 1958. First edition in a later dust-jacket, small 8vo., pp.128, pink cloth lettered in silver, b/w illustrations; light surface soil to cloth, small pin-hole to cloth over spine, creasing to head and foot of spine, very slight curling to corners of boards, a good++ copy of the scarce first edition, in later price-clipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed with slight wear to edges, with small closed to rear upper edge, else very good and now in a protective cover.

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Book number: 34378

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BONE, Gertrude. Illustrated by: BONE, Stephen.

Oasis.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. First edition, 8vo., pp.69, uncut, quarter green cloth with printed paper label to spine, cream paper-covered boards, woodcut illustrations; partial toning to free endpapers, foxing to edges, slight wrinkle to paper label, else very good indeed, in vg complete dust-jacket, which has two small closed tears to upper edge, and light surface soil to pale paper, with light stain to spine/rear inner margin (now in a protective cover).

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Book number: 34294

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

BOSTON, Lucy M. Illustrated by Peter Boston.

The Children of Green Knowe.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1954. First edition, 8vo., pp.157, green cloth lettered in blue, monochromatic frontispiece and 5 further plates; ink ownership gift inscription, dated 1954, to front free endpaper, partial toning to free endpapers, a little light rubbing to extremities, overall a very good, clean copy, without dust-jacket.

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Book number: 36683

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

BOWEN, Elizabeth. Illustrated by: BLAKE, Quentin.

The Good Tiger.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First edition thus, large 8vo., pp.29, pale green hardcover, gilt, 22 dichromatic illustrations in orange and black; slight paper splitting to head and foot of front inner hinge, light foxing to edges, otherwise very good indeed, in price-clipped pictorial dust jacket, which has light creasing/rubbing to head and foot of spine, else very good+.

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Book number: 35518

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

BRAZIL, Angela. Illustrated by, DIXON, Arthur A.

The Third Class at Miss Kayes. A School Story.

London, Blackie and Son, 1909. First edition, 8vo., pp.256,17-(16) publisher’s adverts, pictorial red cloth blocked in gilt, white, pale green and black, pictorial spine, b/w frontispiece and 3 further plates; neat ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, toning and foxing to half title, with foxing to edges and somewhat to margins throughout, webbing occasionally visible toward rear of volume, especially at pp.171 and 193, loss to lower margin of rear free endpaper where paper has become stuck to rear paste-down endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, with small spots of wear to lower corners, spine dulled, overall a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

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Book number: 37071

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