PLAYFELLOWS (Shape Book)

London, Tuck & sons 1890 approx) Chromoliths (3 including double page) + line illustrations & lithos. . Shaped glazed card covers of boy and dog (damage to shoulder and foot/rear cover damage to small area at foot of hinge) (12pp) covers split

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Book number: J59743

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: shape book chromolith illustrations

PLAYTIME STORIES

London, Ernest Nister & E.P.Dutton, New York c. 1908 heavily glazed Color plate mounted on verso of half title [as issued] + full-page and text line and other illustration in the text . 240 x 200mm red cloth spined pictorial cover lower cover plain glazed cream {tips sl.worn/head of spine slightly damaged and repaired] 88pp + [3p=Nister publications] Page count includes title & frontis. Front free endpaper has been torn out, very slight uniform paper tanning but a neat, tight clean bright copy with stories and illustrations by different authors and artists. Nister number 2001

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Book number: J75572

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Keywords: children's stories

[ Francis Wrangham and William Combe].

POETICAL SKETCHES OF SCARBOROUGH IN 1813

Driffield, Frank Fawcett Large Paper edition limited to 60 copies this No.17 1893 hand-coloured aquatint plates [21] etched by Rowlandson after James Green from original Designs . 4to tan cloth on bevelled boards with printed spine label [hinges rubbed/label with sl.loss to edges /corners bumped] half-title/publisher's note to verso +Hand colored frontispiece + titlepage in red and black + [2p=dedication] + [2p=publisher's Preface] + [2p=Advertisement] +[2p=contents] + xv[=Some account of Scarborough] +{1p=blank] +215pp One plate partly loose else all neat and tight. Last 6 leaves with marginal stain along part of the fore-edge but nowhere near to printed area. Uncut edges and one or two unopened leaves, half title with some spotting. Paper watermarked Ached Arnold 1892 [on p185]. Large paper copy size 10.5 by 8 inches.

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Book number: V75640

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: humor Rowlandson illustrations

[ Mauchlin-ware]

THE POETICAL WORKS OF CAMPBELL, GOLDSMITH & GRAY

London, Thomas Nelson and Sons 1870 Frontisplate & illustrations throughout. Fern-ware Mauchline-ware brown wooden boards highly glazed. . Small octavo brown morocco leather spine with 5 raised bands & gilt decorations & gilt rules. Spine holding the two wooden covers with the fern silhouetes and gilt decoration to reverse of boards. [some scratches to covers where rubbed] All edges gilt and all pages printed in red concentric ruled frames with black printed text inside. Engraved titlepage + viii [=frontis +printed decorated title + contents] + [half-title] + 445pp The poems are divided into three sections one for each poet and each poets work is preceded by his life history. The first few leaves of the book have a minimal amount of foxing. The last leaf and the last two free endpapers are much more foxed and a little tanned otherwise the paper is clean and crisp throughout the volume. There is a gift inscription to the front free endpaper dated Xmas day 1872.

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Book number: V76061

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Keywords: poetry in fern pattern wooden binding Mauchlinware

[Edited by Joseph Cundall]

POETRY OF THE YEAR Passages from the Poets Descriptive of the Seasons. With Twenty Two Coloured Illustrations from Drawings By Eminent Artists.

London, George Bell 1854 chromolithographs mounted onto the textpage [22] from drawings by Birket Foster,Harrison Weir,W.Hemsley,E.V.B.[Boyle],Milton & J.Wolf etc. . lg.8vo red grained cloth overall gilt floral design to cover and spine with lower cover with the same pattern blindstamped on bevelled boards [neatly rebacked with 95% of the original relaid/edges a bit rubbed/corners worn] All Edges Gilt Frontispiece + viii + 102pp Printed in colours by Messrs.M.& H.Hanhart and Day & Son. Text within ruled borders printed by Richard Clay to Colophon. All plates have a preceding blank guard sheet. The poetry y Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Longfellow,Mrs.Hemans, Keats Tennyson, Southey,Cowper etc. Newer endpapers else all pages clean, tightly bound in and unmarked. Poetry divided into four seasonal sections.

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Book number: V75679

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Keywords: Color illustrated poetry Gift Book

POLITE PRECEPTOR or a collection of entertaining and instructive Essays .. With a view to inspire into the minds of youth the love of Virtue and the Principles of true Taste and just Reasoning

London, Johnson,Richardson .. Harris etc sixth edition corrected and improved 1807 . Duodecimo very worn roan leather binding (one cover off/needs rebind) (vi pp)+372pp Quite some foxing but book-block tight and neat. Inscription on Free EP. *Moral articles many from the Spectator, Rambler, Idler, Mirror, Lounger, Adventurer, Hume's Essays and Sterne's works. N.B. This is not the same as The Preceptor which is a multi-volume teaching aide covering sciences, natural history, writing, reading and other knowledge required for a gentleman's education. An early children's reading book to instil moral virtue & courtesy.

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Book number: J67106

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Keywords: Moral courtesy books

POP-UPS Shapes

Printed in Spain, Watson/Susaeta Ediciones 1st English 1990 Pop-outs (4) . Octavo pictorial boards (8pgs) (not in MONTANARO).

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Book number: J47988

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POP-UP SPOOKY NIGHT

New York, Grosset & Dunlap/Putnam 1992 approx) Pop-ups (6) illustrated by Benrei Huang . 16mo blue pictorial boards (12pp) very minor creasing.

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Book number: J67998

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Keywords: pop-ups simple but neat

POPEYE GOES FISHING

London, Haddock 1987 Pop-ups (5) . Duodecimo white spined pictorial boards (10pp) as new (MONTANARO 233).

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Book number: J65201

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THE POPULAR RECREATOR a key to in-Door and Out-door Amusements.

London, Cassell Petter & Galpin 1875 according to publisher's code of book listing over 100 illustrations in the text . 2 VOLUMES IN ONE 251 x 190mm Handsomely rebound in blue half calf gilt ruled and with 5 raised bands with gilt title & decorations to spine blue cloth sides [almost as new] All edges marbled. Titlepage + 384pp + 384pp Bookplate of Lady McEacharn to pastedown. New marbled endpapers and fly leaves with Abbey Mills & Crown watermark.Binder's label of Farnborough Abbey, Hants to rear pastedown. Lower edge with ink spatter on the marbled edge NOT intruding on lower margin of pages. Most articles with authors' names given and range from Archery to Zetema and include Billiards, Bicycling, Taxidermy, Croquet, firework making, Magic lanterns, Silkworm raising and Conjuring as well as the more usual games and sports from angling to polo to toy making. There are also several unusual articles such as Decalcomanmie & Potichomanie

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Book number: V75849

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: GAMES SPORTS ARTS

PRAYERS FOR LITTLE ONES Pop-up Book

London, Dean & Son 1964 Pop-ups (3) illustrated by Violet M. Williams . Octavo grey pictorial boards text parallel to spine (10pp)

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Book number: J65694

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Keywords: pop-up religious prayers

PRODROMUS AD OPERA OMNIA S.BONAVENTURAE… Agens de ejus vita, doctrina, et scriptis editis ac ineditis,Recensque inter vetustos Codices Manuscriptos inventis in Libros octo tributus,

Pinted by Bassanensi, Gio. Battista Remondiniani 1767 titlepage vignette [130 x 88mm of Christ as shepherd in a landscape] + handsome head- & tail-pieces + historiated initial capitals. . lg. folio buckram spined boards with large title along spine [head & foot of spine bit rubbed] All edges sprinkled in red & blue dye but top edge v.much darker ] titlepage printed in red and black + [xxiv = = Dedication & Preface & contents] 775 numbered in columns. [each page having two columns including the index & errata] There are some damp marks, mainly marginal to the top gutter margin throughout and 3 tiny holes to margins but not touching the text and one intermittant worm track to the top centimeter of the book just at the gutter. Neither of these faults impede the reading of the text nor is the paper weakened.There are two round purple library stamps to the free endpaper and the titlepage and a stamp "House Library Pantasaph" on the endpaper also. *The work of Saint Bonaventure was a founder of the Franciscan Order and a leading light of the 13th century. He was influenced by St.Augustin and Aristotle and St.Thomas Aquinas although St.Bonadventure inclined more to the mystical than those three.

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Book number: V75875

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Keywords: Theology

PROWL AND GROWL - My big Pop-up book

Bath England, Parragon book/Oyster Books 2002 Pop-ups (5) . Quarto blue pictorial boards (tips sl.bumped) (10pp) tiny insertion tears to one pop-up else V.G. Large jungle scenes for pre school children.

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Book number: J68159

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Keywords: pop-up large hardback

PUBLIC CHARACTERS OF 1799-1800 TO BE CONTINUED ANNUALLY

London, Phillips & sold by Hurst, Wallis etc. 1st first edition 1799 Folding frontis. of 30 line illustrations of Sheridan, Dr. Hutton, William Cowper et al. . Octavo full calf with gilt spine and 2 contrasting spine labels (split to spine but held by cords/top compartment of spine damaged/and chipped to foot of spine/tips slightly worn/rubbed).

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Book number: V66657

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: biography

PUBLIC CHARACTERS OF 1801-2 TO BE CONTINUED ANNUALLY

London, Phillips & sold by Hurst, Carpenter et al. 1801 Two plates with 2 lithographs each. . Octavo full calf with gilt spine and 2 contrasting spine labels (split mid-spine though held by cords/chipped to head & foot of spine with some loss to foot/tips worn bit rubbed ) 28 contemporary biographies (vi) +(ii)+ 594pp + leaf of book adverts. Incl. Governor Franklin son of Benjamin Franklin and assistant at the famous kite flying discovery of the electricity lightening and later governor of New Jersey, Count Rumford and his experiments on heat, General Strutt governor of Quebec, Arthur Young and his contributions to agriculture etc.

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Book number: V66658

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Keywords: biography