By “MARION” [GEMMELL, Marion]. Illustrated by: KING, Jessie M.

Mummy&Rsquo;S Bedtime Story Book.

London: Cecil Palmer, (1929). First edition, 4to., pp.56, pictorial paper-covered boards, lavishly illustrated, with pictorial title, colour frontispiece and 11 further colour plates, pictorial endpapers, and richly illustrated text; ink ownership gift inscription to reverse of frontispiece, occasional light fingermarking, foxing to fore-edges of text-block and boards, rubbing and light wear to extremities, internally fresh, a very good copy indeed.

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Book number: 33053

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LEAF, Munro.

Gordon the Goat.

London: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1946. First UK edition, 8vo., pp.48, pictorial paper-covered boards, colour illustrations; light foxing to edges, slight undulation to contents at inner margin, overall a very good copy indeed, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tear to rear upper edge, small closed tear to front lower edge, and is now in protective cover.

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Book number: 34344

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LEAR, Edward. Illustrated by: FOSTER, William.

Nonsense Drolleries: The Owl &Amp; the Pussy-Cat - the Duck &Amp; the Kangaroo.

London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1889. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.31,(i)advert, red cloth spine with pictorial boards, b/w illustrations; toning to endpapers, ink ownership autograph to upper margin of front free endpaper, fingermarking and light surface soiling throughout, wear to paper covering at extremities of boards, with professional repair to headband and head of rear joint, a good copy.

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Book number: 35051

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

LEBRUN, Henri.

Conquete Du Perou Et Histoire de Pizarre. Bibliotheque de la Jeunesse Chretienne.

Tours: Ad. Mame & Cie, 1852. Fifth edition, 8vo., pp.281, b/w engraved frontispiece, pictorial title, and 2 plates, colour and gilt embossed paper covered boards, with inlaid colour plate; rubbing to extremities, corners bumped, with small split to rear fore-edge, a very good copy.

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Book number: 3354

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth.

Hiawatha&Rsquo;S Childhood.

London: Faber and Faber, 1984. First edition, small 4to., pp.(xxx), glazed pictorial boards, colour frontispiece and pictorial title, full colour illustrations throughout; a near-fine copy.

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Book number: 34730

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‘By the author of that much-admired little work, entitled The Daisy’. [TURNER, Elizabeth].

The Cowslip, or, More Cautionary Stories in Verse.

London: J. Harris/B. Crosby, 1811. 12mo., pp.68,(iv)adverts, decorative paper-covered card wrappers with printed paper label to front and pictorial vignette pasted down to rear, 29 engraved illustrations; some wear to paper covering of spine, light rubbing to extremities, otherwise very good indeed.

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Book number: 34321

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MACHA, Karel Hynek. Translated by: PARGETER, Edith. Illustrated by: ZRZAVY, Jan.

May.

Prague: Artia Graphic Design, 1965. First edition thus, 4to., pp.82, decorative cream cloth blocked in black, ribbon bookmark, 6 b/w plates plus b/w vignettes; light spotting to top edges of cloth, else fine, in mylar wrapper, housed in very good decorative slipcase, which is rubbed to extremities.

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Book number: 34679

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

MATHERS, E. Powys. Illustrated by GILL, Eric.

Procreant Hymn.

The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Limited edition, no. 197 of 200 copies, 8vo., pp.20,(i)colophon, cream cloth, gilt, t.e.g., deckle-edged paper, engraved frontispiece by Eric Gill, 4 further engravings by Gill; slight toning to spine and margins of the cloth boards, a very good copy indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine and margins, with partial loss to spine (12mms loss at tailband, and apx. 20mms loss at headband), with light loss and small closed tears to other extremities, good+ and now in protective cover.

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Book number: 31049

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

Keywords: Poetry

McCRAE, Hugh. Illustrated and decorated by: LINDSAY, Norman. With Introduction by EARP, Thomas.

Satyrs and Sunlight. Being the Collected Poetry of Hugh Mccrae.

London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1928. Limited edition, no.11 of 550 copies, 4to., pp.xix,176, full green morocco, gilt, with small pictorial gilt image to front board, handmade paper by Barcham Green, deckle edges, b/w frontispiece, pictorial title, pictorial half title, pictorial colophon, b/w collotype and gravure plates; (sympathetic) pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, spine and margins of boards browned (gilt remains bright), light rubbing to the leather, such that the surface colour has been lifted, light toning to fore-edges of leaves, a fresh and otherwise fine copy.

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Book number: 31979

Catalogue: CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED

Keywords: Poetry

MCKITTERICK, David. With Introduction by Edward Bawden. [Signed by author and artist]

Wallpapers by Edward Bawden Printed at the Curwen Press.

Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1989. Signed, limited edition, no.37 of only 40 copies of the deluxe Special Edition (the most deluxe and only signed format in the total edition of 120 copies),large folio, quarter bound in Nigerian goatskin, with Bird’s Nest wallpaper design to boards, and containing sheets or parts of sheets of 7 original Bawden wallpapers, accompanied by whole sheets of the Riviera and Facade papers in a separate portfolio, and signed by author and artist, also containing full-colour reproductions of 8 papers for which actual samples are not available, as well as reproductions of two unpublished designs for wallpapers by Bawden which were never taken up by the Curwen Press, and a series of monochrome photographs, pp.32 text; crease to fore-edge of Plate 1 (Tree and Cow), plates 2 and 6 also have slight creasing to fore-edge/corners, an otherwise fine copy, housed in very good cloth- and paper-covered slipcase. The portfolio also containing the publisher's prospectus, a typed letter from Rosalind Randle to the original subscriber, an autograph letter to him from David McKitterick, and the original invoice,

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Book number: 36888

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MILNE, A.A. Illustrated by: SHEPHERD, E.H.

Winnie-the-Pooh.

London: Methuen and Co., 1926. First edition, deluxe issue, 8vo., pp.xi,158, full pictorial blue calf, a.e.g., pictorial endpapers, b/w illustrations; light toning and foxing to prelims/closing leaves, just occasional slight foxing to margins within, fingermarking to p.3, else internally fresh, spine sunned, with light sunning to very inner margins of boards, light rubbing to extremities, with slight wear to tail of spine, overall a very good copy indeed.

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Book number: 34803

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MOLESWORTH, Mrs. Illustrated by Walter Crane.

The Cuckoo Clock.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1877. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),242,(ii), pictorial red cloth stamped in black and gilt, b/w frontispiece and 6 further b/w plates by Walter Crane; lightly rolled and slightly shaken, gutter and glue visible in a couple of places, rubbing and light marking to cloth, with light wear to corners, a sound copy.

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Book number: 37068

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MULHOLLAND, Rosa.

The Little Flower Seekers, Being Adventures of Trot and Daisy in a Wonderful Garden, by Moonlight.

London: Marcus Ward and Co., (1873). First edition, square 8vo., pp.126, pictorial red bevelled cloth, lettered in gilt to front board, and pictured in black, with black lettering to spine, illustrated with 12 very attractive tipped-in chromolithographic plates, including frontispiece, one b/w illustration; contemporary ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a little light foxing to prelims, rubbing to extremities, with light wear to cloth at lower corners and at foot of upper joint, small spot of wear at headband, light marking to cloth, a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 35737

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Keywords: Illustrated; Botanical

MUNRO, Elsie Smeaton. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.

Topsy-Turvy Tales.

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1923. Square 8vo., pictorial blue cloth, 6 colour plates and 35 b/w illustrations; vertical crease to inner margin of colour plate opposite p.60, with repair to the margin, repaired closed tear to upper margin of b/w plate at p.112, two ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, foxing to prelims and fore-edges, rubbing to extremities, with slight wear to cloth along lower edges, a good+ copy of a scarce title.

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Book number: 38393

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MYRIORAMA, (Alphabet/Paper Toys)

Alphabetisch Myriorama, Bestaande Uit Meer Dan 100 Voorwerpen, Vorgesteld Op 24 Gekleurde Kaarten, Waardoor Eene Ontelbare Menigte Landschappen Kunnen Zamengesteld Worden.

Amsterdam: Gebrodeders van Arum, n.d. (c.1825) 16mo., hand-coloured engraved myriorama alphabet comprising 24 pictorial cards with numbers beneath the pictures (1-24) and A-Z in upper and lower case to each card. The cards are housed in card slipcase with decorative floral paper covering and printed paper label; occasional light foxing to some cards, light wear to extremities of the slipcase, with loss to lower portion and upper corner of the printed title label, light loss to marbled paper covering of case in a couple of places, a very good example of this rare set. “An exceptional early Picture Alphabet that completely focused on both extramural reading and fun for the child.” Buijnsters :Lust En Leering. (History of the Dutch children's book in the nineteenth century). Myriorama, or ‘Many Thousand Views’ consist of numerous cards depicting fragments or segments of landscapes, people and buildings that can be arranged in a multitude of different combinations allowing a child to create a variety of imaginary landscapes. This ‘entertainment’ for ‘young ladies and gentlemen’ originated in France but was quickly adopted in other European countries. From wikipedia: Myriorama originally meant a set of illustrated cards which 19th century children could arrange and re-arrange, forming different pictures. Later in the century the name was also applied to shows using a sequence of impressive visual effects to entertain and inform an audience. The word myriorama was invented to mean myriad pictures, following the model of panorama, diorama, cosmorama and other novelties. These were all part of a wider interest in viewing landscape as panorama, and in new ways of presenting "spectacular" scenes. The early myrioramas were cards with people, buildings, and other images on compatible backgrounds, and could be laid out in any order, allowing a child to create a variety of imaginary landscapes. Jean-Pierre Brès, a French children's writer, published an early version which he described as a polyoptic picture (tableau polyoptique) in the early 19th century, and John Clark of London took up the idea and designed a set of cards he called a myriorama. Clark's "second series" myriorama, an "Italian landscape", was produced in 1824, the same year as a similar set of English cards called a panoramacopia created by drawing teacher T.T.Dales.

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Book number: 32228

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