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Aunt Louisa&Apos;S Coloured Gift Books. Bible Picture Book
London, Frederick Warner and Co. c1880. Cloth. A scarce copy of this Bible Picture Book, copiously illustrated throughout with the prints of Joseph Martin Kronheim. A green cloth hardback with blindstamped back board. Bevelled edges. Stamped pictorial front board with gilt lettering. With Kronheim prints. A wonderfully illustrated children's Bible. Joseph Martin Kronheim was born in Magdeburg, Germany on 26th October 1810. He moved to Edinburgh, via Paris, when he was 22 before becoming established in London around 1846. In 1850, Kronheim acquired a license to operate the Baxter process and adapted it, using zinc blocks instead of wood blocks. This, however, resulted in a flatter finish. He then turned to lithography for a short time, but soon returned to printing by the Baxter process. In a green cloth binding with a pictorial front board. Externally generally smart. Slightly bumped and rubbed to extremities and head and tail of spine. Small section of marking to spine. Loss to cloth to lower extremity of rear board. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright with the occasional handling mark and small closed tear. There is a small ink inscription on the front endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Joseph Martin Kronheim. Very Good .
-- Boeknummer: GEN9-E-6
GBP 290.00 [Appr.: EURO 343.5]
Catalogus: Children's
Trefwoorden: Illustrated Religion Children's Kronheim Religion Scarce Joseph Martin Kronheim
Bo-Peep: A Treasury for the Little Ones
London, Cassell and Company, 1903 . Cloth. The 1903 edition of Cassell's children's publications 'Bo-Peep', containing an array of short stories and poems, and illustrated throughout. Cassell's children's annual for 1903, a beautifully illustrated volume containing a wealth of short stories and poems for the young.Illustrated with eight colour plates, and numerous further vignette and full page illustrations.The Bo-Peep annual ran from the 1880s to 1920s.With a contemporary inscription to a front blank.With advertisements to pastedowns and endpapers, and a sixteen page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Foxing to title page. Pages otherwise bright, with only the odd spot. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .
Boeknummer: 868F15
GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 71.25]
Catalogus: Children's
Trefwoorden: Bo-Peep children's annual Treasury for the Little Ones children's annual Not Stated
Bobo&Apos;S Motor Car
England/London, Alf Cooke, c1905. Hardback. A scarce twentieth century children's book. An author and date is not stated to this work. Only 'Made in England.' 'Alf Cooke' colophon to the rear board. Alf Cooke Printworks was a business founded by its namesake in 1866. He expanded into colour printing in 1868 and in 1885 was appointed by Queen Victoria as 'Her Majesty's Colour Printer&apos. Lacking pages 11-14. Bobo's Motor Car followed another work in the series titled Bobo's Adventures. This is the second book in the series and to the front pastedown it is stated 'Other Titles in Preparation&apos. Extremely scarce, with none on Copac. This work follows Bobo's adventures with her many friends such as Teddy, Jumbo the Elephant and a gentleman who is a Golly Doll. The Golly character is the fictional character created by Florence Kate Upton in the late nineteenth century. The black doll has been the subject of controversy due to its depiction of people of colour. In quarter cloth binding with pictorial front board. Rear board is plain and grey. Externally, generally smart. Bumping to the head and tail of spine and patches of rubbing to the front board, heavier to extremities. Prior owner's light writing below the title. Front hinge is strained but fir. Evidence of a prior owner's writings to front pastedown and title page, which has been erased. Several pages throughout have previously erased writing from a prior owner. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned due to paper used. To pages 32-27 a prior owner has coloured the drawings using ink. The colouring is very charming. Occasional spots to pages, heaviest to pages 10 and 15. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Boeknummer: GEN19-H-22
GBP 225.00 [Appr.: EURO 266.5]
Catalogus: Children's Books
Trefwoorden: Golly Bobo Motor Car Bobo None
The Child&Apos;S Companion, and Juvenile Instructor
London, The Religious Tract Society, 1850. Cloth. A scarce volume of children's stories published by the Religious Tract Society. The Religious Tract Society, founded in 1799, was a major British publisher of Christian literature intended initially for evangelism, and including literature aimed at children, women, and the poor. New Series. With a coloured frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. In a green cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine. Externally, sound with slight rubbing. some minor bumping to head and tail of spine. Internally, generally firmly bound, though hinges are tender. Pages generally bright and clean with some scattered spotting. Ink inscription to recto of front free end papers. Ink markings to rear end-papers. Good . Ill.: Various. Good .
Boeknummer: GEN9-F-20
GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 77]
Catalogus: Children's
Trefwoorden: Scarce Children's fiction Religious Tract Society Religion Children's fiction Colour Various
The Children&Apos;S Delight Picture Book
London, Ward, Lock and Co, c1927. Cloth. A storybook for children, illustrated with three full-colour lithographs and many further in-text pictures. Including a story called 'The White Rabbit', illustrated with four photographs of children acting out scenes. With a children's ink inscription to verso of title page, carefully traced over the pencil lines of an adult. In a quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, sound with wear to extremities, marks to boards and straining to front hinge. Internally, first few pages detached but present. Generally bright and clean. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
Boeknummer: GEN26-G-23
GBP 14.99 [Appr.: EURO 17.75]
Catalogus: Children's Books
Trefwoorden: Children's The White Rabbit Photographs The White Rabbit None
Christmas Improvement; or, Hunting Mrs. P. A Tale, Founded on Facts. Intended As a Christmas Box for Those Who Wish to Begin the New Year without Her
London, N. Hailes , 1834. First edition. Leather. A delightful, first edition, collection of children's stories written by a mother for her children. The very scarce first edition. With an engraved frontispiece. A collection of tales, written for children, with a Christian message. With a loving dedication from the author to her children. With the publisher's advertisements to the rear of the book. In quarter straight grain morocco binding with marbled boards. Externally, a trifle rubbed with wear and loss to the extremities and spine. Marks to the boards. Some spotting and handling marks to the paste-downs and free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with spotting to the frontispiece and title page and the occasional spot throughout. Some light age-toning to the edges. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .
Boeknummer: 832G4
GBP 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 65.25]
Catalogus: Children's Literature
Trefwoorden: Christmas children's literature mrs. p. hunting children's literature Not Stated
Come to Life Stories No. 4: Hansel and Gretel, and Snow White
London, Sandle Brothers Ltd. c1960 . Cloth. A delightful children's pop-up book, containing the classic stories 'Snow White' and 'Hansel and Gretel&apos. The fourth volume in the 'Come to Life Stories' series.This charming children's work features the tales 'Snow White' and 'Hansel and Gretel&apos.Illustrated double page pop-up plates, one for each tale. Collated, complete.Undated; dated circa 1960 via the Victoria and Albert Museum libraries. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Small closed tear in paper at head of front joint, otherwise externally excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Pop-up plates in full working order. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .
Boeknummer: 884F12
GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 77]
Catalogus: Children's Books
Trefwoorden: hansel and gretel Snow White pop-up book Snow White Not Stated
The Curiosity Book
[London], [George Vickers], c1858 . Paperback. A delightfully humorous and very scarce work of Victorian juvenilia, illustrated throughout with vignette woodcuts. A very scarce work, dated circa 1858 via Jisc.This delightful mid-nineteenth century children's work consists of numerous brief satirical passages, short stories, and puns, interspersed with charming vignette woodcuts.With title page removed, and lacking a further eight leaves, being pages 29-30, 33-36, 49-50, and 55-62. Titles of the amusing passages within this volume include 'A Child with a Double Head', 'Unique Account by an Illiterate Mason', 'Curious Turnip, Resembling the Human Form', and 'Maxims from the Burmese&apos.In the original paper wraps. In the original paper wraps. Handling marks and light spotting to wraps, with discolouration to front wrap. Closed tears and minor losses to head of rear wrap, with minor chips to tail. Small loss of paper to tail of front wrap. Folds to wrap perimeters. Internally, binding lightly strained. Title page removed, and lacking a further eight leaves, being pages 29-30, 33-36, 49-50, and 55-62. Good Only . Ill.: Not Stated. Good Only .
Boeknummer: 886F17
GBP 295.00 [Appr.: EURO 349.25]
Catalogus: Children's Books
Trefwoorden: victorian periodical curiosities children's juvenalia curiosities Not Stated
The Day of Rest: An Illuminated Magazine of Sunday Reading for the Family
Philadelphia, George Barrie & Co, 1882 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce illuminated US Christmas number of the periodical 'The Day of Rest', inscribed by publisher Alexander Strahan. A very scarce US Christmas number of this periodical, in the original wraps. This work features a 'complete work' titled 'The First Christmas', and billed as 'forming the January part' of the periodical.Inscribed to the verso of the front wrap by publisher Alexander Strahan. Strahan published what was arguably one of the dominant periodicals in the mid nineteenth century, a monthly magazine called 'Good Words&apos. He established the journal 'The Day of Rest: An Illustrated Journal of Sunday Reading' in 1872.Strahan's inscription reads 'to Bertha, this, the 3rd copy printed of the first coloured magazine with all birthday love A Strahan', dated 10th December 1881, Edinburgh.Illustrated with eight full colour plates, and with colour borders and vignette illustrations to each page of text.From the library of A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son, literary agent of Rudyard Kipling. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Wraps detached. Small loss of paper to head of front wrap, with closed tears to front wrap perimeters. Discoloration to centre of rear wrap. Inscription to verso of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with only the odd spot. Fair . Ill.: Not Stated. Fair .
Boeknummer: 898F22
GBP 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 177.75]
Catalogus: Children's
Trefwoorden: the first christmas Alexander Strahan The Day of Rest: An Illustrated Journal of Sunday Reading A. P. Watt & A. S. Watt of A. P. Watt and Son Alexander Strahan Not Stated
Deadwood Dick 12: Flying Floyd&Apos;S Great Leap 13: Buckhorn Bill and the Moonshiners 14: Gold Rifle and Tiger Track 19: Rosebud Rob and the Man from Texas
London, Morrison and Gibbs Ltd, c1920. Magazine. Four volumes of the popular American dime novel series, Deadwood Dick, here first published in Great Britain. Deadwood Dick is a fictional character who appears in a series of stories published between 1877 and 1897 by Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854/5-1885). The name became so widely known in its time that it was used to advantage by several men who actually resided in Deadwood, South Dakota. Deadwood is a city in South Dakota, famous for its illegal settlement during the Western Expansion. Each volume features comic pictorial boards and publisher's advertisements. In pictorial paper boards. Externally generally smart with some spotting. Small, closed tear to 13. Number 19 has been clipped. Internally generally firmly bound with generally clean pages throughout. Good . Ill.: Unnamed. Good .
Boeknummer: SET17-E-2
GBP 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 89]
Catalogus: Children's
Trefwoorden: Deadwood Dick Illustrated Dime Novel Comic Illustrated Unnamed
The Friendly Story Book an Alderman Book
London , James and Jonathan, c1939. Cloth. A very scarce copy of The Friendly Story Book An Alderman Book by Anonymous With '32 Easy to read pages and over 100 colour pictures&apos. An Alderman Book. In original paper wraps. Stories include: Clementine, Holiday, Rainy Picnic Day and A Surprise for the Puppies. In original paper wraps. Externally, smart but with minor edgewear and slight handling marks. Internally, generally firmly bound. Generally clean throughout but with the odd spot and handling marks and slight marks from printing. With slight chipping in places and the odd slight closed tear. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Boeknummer: GEN28-A-6
GBP 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 142.25]
Catalogus: Children's Books
Trefwoorden: Alderman Alderman Book Children's Clementine Alderman Book None
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies; or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
London, F. Power and Co, 1790. Cloth. The very scarce twelfth edition of this fascinating educational guide for the 'little masters and misses' of the latter half of the eighteenth century. Covering a variety of subjects. The twelfth edition of this very scarce eighteenth century educational guide for 'Young Gentlemen and Ladies', very scarce in all editions. Designed to be a 'private tutor for little masters and misses', this delightful work contains sections dedicated to the history of England, the solar system, the wonders of the world, the 'behaviours of great men' and 'directions for reading with elegance and propriety&apos.Illustrated throughout with vignette woodcuts and decorations.ESTC reference no. T83115. Majority of leaf L2 missing, with remaining portion partially restored to gutter. Leaf M restored to fore edge.Contemporary inscriptions to front and rear blanks from the children of the Longman family, with the inscription 'Ann Longman her book gift by Ann Read January 6th 1799' to verso of title page.First published in 1751, this popular work saw numerous editions throughout the second half of the eighteenth century. Rebound in full cloth, with endpapers renewed. Remnants of original floral boards laid down. Contemporary inscriptions to front and rear blanks, with further inscription to verso of title page. Internally, firmly bound. Majority of leaf L2 missing, with remaining portion partially restored to gutter. Leaf M restored to fore edge. Pages lightly age toned due to paper type, with the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Boeknummer: 825F20
GBP 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 325.75]
Catalogus: Children's
Trefwoorden: education A museum for young gentlemen and ladies children private tutor A museum for young gentlemen and ladies Not Stated
A New Hierogliphical Bible
Manchester, S. Johnson & Son, 1844. Cloth. A very scarce delightfully illustrated pictorial Bible, featuring countless vignette wood engravings representing Biblical passages. A delightful and very scarce 'Hieroglyphical Bible', featuring passages from both the Old and New Testaments, arranged from Genesis to Revelations, represented with just under four-hundred charming vignette emblematic figures, aimed to inspire the young.Illustrated throughout, with wood engravings to each leaf.A delightfully illustrated children's pictorial summary of the Bible, featuring a 'The Life of our Blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ', to the rear.Lacking two leaves; pages 73-74 and 85-86. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail, with small losses to the cloth, small hole in cloth to front joint. Spotting to boards. Front hinge strained, and a touch tender. Inscription to rear pastedown. Internally, binding strained. One leaf detached; page 5-6. Pages significantly age toned, with spotting to perimeters. Ink marks to page 87. Lacking two leaves; pages 73-74 and 85-86. Good Only . Ill.: Not Stated. Good Only .
Boeknummer: 848F43
GBP 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 231]
Catalogus: Children's
Trefwoorden: bible Hieroglyphic bible christianity Hieroglyphic bible Not Stated
Queen Mab&Apos;S Fairy Realm
London, George Newnes, 1901 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this beautifully designed children's work, with illustrations from artists including Arthur Rackham, H. R. Millar, R. Savage and others. An uncommon first edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and title page, with sixty-seven monochrome illustrations, both vignette and full page. Collated, complete.These illustrations are the work of popular book illustrators Arthur Rackham, H. R. Millar, R. Savage, H. Cole, A. Garth Jones and others.In a lovely pictorial cloth binding. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Front hinge lightly strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: H. Cole; A. Garth Jones; H. R. Millar; A. Rackham; R. Savage. Very Good .
Boeknummer: 898F66
GBP 440.00 [Appr.: EURO 521]
Catalogus: Children's Books
Trefwoorden: Queen Mab's Fairy Realm arthur rackham fairy realm fairy tale arthur rackham H. Cole; A. Garth Jones; H. R. Millar; A. Rackham; R. Savage
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