BABY STEGOSAURUS

New York, Dial Books Dinobaby Pop-ups series 1990 approx) Pop up in shaped book engineered Dick Dudley illustrated by Robert Cremins . Ovoid duodecimo pictorial card covers (somewhat rubbed/lower cover having partially removed store-price sticker) containing 2" high strip book of text + pop-up

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Book number: J62063

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: pop-up shaped dionsaur

BEST BOOK FOR YOU

London, Partridge 1930 approx) Color plates (2) both by Ernest Aris + full pages & text illustrations by Harry B Neilson, E. Dorothy Rees etc. . Large octavo cloth spined boards (tips rubbed) (64pp) some text illustrations colored & Prize label on FEP with name stamp above.

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Book number: J59166

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: story collection illustrated

BETSY BRUNETTE Dolly Varden series

New York, McLoughlin Bros. Dolly Varden dolls series 1880 approx) Chromolith doll (11in if she had her feet) + 3 double sided gowns . Doll (repaired to feet with facsimile shoes/carpet piece) dress with train repaired to front right shoulder & has crease to front of dress at floor level & old repair to inside of rear of train, other dress repair to right shoulder, 3rd dress crease parallel to floor, 5mm tear and crease to elbow & crease to both shoulders. 1 hair piece + photocopy of advert. for this doll laid in.

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Book number: J65237

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: paper doll

BIBLE PICTURE ALPHABET - untearable mounted on cloth

London, T.Nelson and Sons [ 1886] chromolith illustrations [24 color illustration on 4 plates + 2 full-page cover illustrations in blue/pink and brown . 4to [280 x 215mm] narrow cloth spined pictorial card covers [covers edge worn and lower cover with large corner of paper lacking but only affecting a small area of background of the picture/some creasing especially to corners] 8 pages the first and last mounted to inside of cover, the text pages mounted back to back but the middle color plates printed one side only. There is fingering & soiling and possibly the spine has been rebacked. The chromolith plates are generally clean and bright.

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Book number: J75749

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: ABC Alphabet color illustrated A-Z

BOOK ABOUT ANIMALS

London, Religious Tract Society 1850's chromolithographic plates (6) by Kronheim + black and white vignette to titlepage + 6 text engravings. . 182x137mm purple pebbled cloth with rubbed spine titling (spine cloth splitting but covers firmly attached) iv + 64pp Osborne collection 197 R.McLean Vixtorian Book Design p 198. Some edge browning or spotting but a neat clean, tight copy.

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Book number: J75662

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: illustrated children's animal book

BOOK ABOUT BIRDS

London, Religious Tract Society 1860 approx. chromolithographic plates (6) by Kronheim + black and white vignette to titlepage + 3 text engravings. . 182x137mm purple blindstamped and gilt pictorial cloth (spine and edgees faded) iv + 68pp R.McLean Victorian Book Design p 199. Some mainly marginal damp marking. The yellow endpapers damp marked and with binder's ticket of Key & Whiting. In all a neat, clean, tight copy of the second version "showing a moew sophisticated version of exactly the same subject [as] in the first edition" R.mcLean p199 [illustration]

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Book number: J75663

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: illustrated children's animal book

BOY'S OWN ANNUAL [ volume 28]

London, Boy's Own Paper 1905-6 chromolith color plates (12 as listed ) + over 500 illustrations in text & full page, artists include Louis Wain, Tom Browne, Alfred Pearse etc. . 284x204mm red pictorial cloth on bevelled boards with polar bears and hunter to cover and spine with gilt lettered titling [edges sl.worn/minor marks and one corners sl.bumped but bright good covers] xii + 824pp blind stamped bookseller's address to corner of free endpaper and inner hinges a bit pulled but scrim not broken.End papers creased & sl torn. Contents withsome signs of use but no marking and no tears. Serials by Gordon Staples, Adrian Leigh,Ashmore Russan and Frank Curzon Britten etc. Many articles on sports from cricket football even baseball, boating, travel etc + indoor and outdoor games, crafts, photography

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Book number: J75589

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: annual serial stories illustrations chromoliths

BREAD AND HONEY for little folk

London, Ernest Nister/E.P.Dutton & Co.New York circa 1892 according to Hunt's Bibliography chromolith illustrations (24 including some full page) + line illustrations in the text by C.S. Flint . lg.8vo brown cloth spined pictorial boards of girl with baby sister feeding the hen & her chicks (wear to edges/some marks] 56pp all illustrated in either chromolithography or line drawings. A nice clean tight example of the charming Nister productions of the period.

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Book number: J75632

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: chromolith illustrated

THE BROKEN CLOTHES-LINE and other stories

London, The Religious Tract Society [1880] Frontispiece + head- and tail-pieces . 181x120mm [but in 8's] blue decorated ckoth with decorative gilt title to cover [spine darkened/corners worn/edges rubbed] 96pp +8 publisher's book list with this title in the "New series of Illustrated books.." Inscribed to free endpaper "John Taylor a Reward from the Wesleyan Reform Sunday School Rowston 1881" Some fingering and a few corners creased but a tight copy. Eight stories with blue silk place-marker. Not listed in COPAC and probably quite scarce.

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Book number: J75643

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: moral stories with some religious instruction

BRONTOSAURUS (Mini DINOSAURS)

London, Tango Books Mini Dinosaurs series 1993 Flaps (4) + fold out stand up dinosaur . Square duodecimo white pictorial boards (10pp) (small split without loss to stand up) else V.G

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Book number: J61833

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: pop-up dinosaur reptiles

M. E.

CATECHISM that is to say an Instruction to be learned or ever person,before he be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop

London, Soc.Prom.Xtain Knowl.47th thou. 1910 Chromolith plates with much gold (12) + text line illus. . Duodecimo cloth-spined pictorial boards (tips sl.worn) 55pp V.G+

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Book number: J60627

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: childrens religious

CHILD'S OWN STORY BOOK

London, Wells,Gardner,Darton & Co 5th edition 1890s) Chromolith frontis + chromolith plate by T. Pym. . Small octavo olive pictorial and gilt cloth (tips worn/lower cover spotted & soiled) 144pp +publisher's catal. Includes this work under Prize books "elegantly bound in cloth" with a subtitle "In short Works and Large Type." There are 72 small stories progressively a bit harder and longer for children who are just beginning to become interested in reading to themselves. 3 openings with staining, prize inscription on FEP. Nice Victorian stories.

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Book number: J68310

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: Victorian stories prize book collected illustrator

CHILD'S COMPANION & Juvenile Instructor New Series 1860

London, Religious Tract Society 1860 Color frontis. [feeding the swans] by Kronheim + b/w full-page illustratuibs + text illustrations . 140x90mm 1/2 dark maroon leather gilt spine decorations 380pp (minor wear/tips slightly scuffed). Nice clean copy with charming colored plate of children and mother and animals.

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Book number: J75841

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: annuals

A CHILD'S FIRST LESSON-BOOK chiefly in Words of One Syllable illustrated with upwards of sixty pictures by Birket Foster and Harrison Weir.

London, Cundall and Addey / David Bogue. [1851] hand coloured illustrations [although it says 60 illustrations this is an exaggeration as there are 52 with frontispiece missing. . 12mo Gilt red cloth blnd stamped [spine rubbed & worn to head & foot/gilt spine-title rubbed/corners bumped/lower cover with small ink mark] All Edges Gilt. Lacks frontispiece but titlepage present. Tipped in news cutting of Sir William Bovill + blank leaf + 3-96pp + 2 columns of news of the "New Chief Justice on the Common Pleas - Sir William Bovill} glued to recto of the rear endpaper. At the foot of this clipping is penciled "Dec.15 1866" The book is divided with Part I without a half title if called for but most of the plates signed by Weir. The Second Part is for words of 3 or 4 letters and is illustrated by Birket Foster with the half title of Part mostly "in words of 4 or 5 letters" and illustrations by Foster.

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Book number: P76013

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: color illustrations to stories

CHRISTMAS CAROL a pop-up Book

Godalming, Grandreams Ltd/Ottenheimer TREASURY COLLECTION series 1989 Fanfold (3) pop up illustrations . Octavo pictorial boards (6pg) one wrong crease else V.G (not in MONTANARO).

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Book number: J50491

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: pop-up Christmas childrens illustrated book