London: J. Harris and Son, n.d. [c.1825]. Early edition. Hardcover. The title page, followed by the 69 hand-coloured stipple engravings in facing pairs. Some soiling or toning up to p.10, thereafter generally clean. The missing blank corner of the last page has been made good. 1848 ownership name to the... More about Marmaduke Multiply's Merry Method of Making Minor Mathematicians: or, the Multiplication Table,...

London: Frederick Warne, 'Now and Then' Juvenile series (New York: Scribner, Welford and Armstrong), [c.1875]. Hardcover. 96pp. At each opening there is a short tale in large print, facing the picture which illustrates it. Many of the images are striking, and many of the stories are intriguing, whether fantastic, domestic... More about Alice's New Book. And Other Tales. With Forty-Seven Page Illustrations

London: Printed at the Catnach Press by W.S. Fortey, n.d. [?1870-1885?]. First or early edition. Pamphlet. Chapbook, 8pp, 25x18.5cms, illustrated with cuts. Includes: [The] Drunkard's Looking Glass, The Tree of Dissipation, Close the Alehouse Door, alphabet rhymes, Good Drinks for Good Children, The Life of a Drunkard, The Drunkard's Dream..... More about The New Temperance Primer

London: Blackie, [1893]. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. viii, 436pp +(4), 8 adverts: illustrations in the text: lacks title page. Contents clean and fresh, with minor soiling to a few pages. In original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Firm and bright, some marks to lower board. A comprehensive, if rather... More about The Teacher’s Manual of Lessons on Domestic Economy

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. (viii), 168pp, plus 8 plates in monochrome. Upper corners creased at p.5 & p.7. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original pictorial ochre cloth, strikingly blocked in white, blue, black and red: front bright, with one minor mark, spine rather... More about The Imp and the Angel

London: T.C & E.C. Jack, n.d. (1906). Presumed first edition. Hardcover. viii, 120pp, with a map and 8 colour plates. Front free endpaper missing. Some browning to half title, final page, and some edges. Contents otherwise very good, plates fresh. 5.9 x 4.7 ins, in the original binding of blue... More about The Story of Robert the Bruce. (The Children's Heroes Series

London: Cassell, 1907. First edition in book form. Hardcover. 144pp, with the tinted guarded frontis and many monochrome illustrations, text and full-page, printed on toned panels. Rubricated prelims. Contents very clean. Slight soiling at one opening. Stories which were originally published in 'Little Folks'. Quarto, 28x21.5cms, in the original binding... More about The Land of Enchantment

London: George Routledge and Sons Limited, n.d. [c.1910?]. Early edition. Hardcover. xvi, 463pp, with many illustrations in line, and a number of colour plates. Contents clean and unmarked, and all plates present. Has at some time been recased in blue cloth, on which have been relaid the illustrations from the..... More about Norse Fairy Tales: Selected and Adapted from the Translations by Sir George Webbe Dasent

London: Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [c.1917]. First edition. 40pp, plus a colour frontis, with handwritten text printed in black and red, and illustrations in black & white at every opening. Little book, landscape format, 91 x 123mm. Front pastedown bears a 1917 gift inscription, has a little surface... More about That Little Red Squirrel

[Bourneville]: [Cadbury Ltd], n.d. [1920s]. First edition. Paperback. 24pp (including covers), illustrated in colour throughout. Stapled booklet 147x109mm. Staples rusted but firm. Clean and well-kept copy, with foxing to covers and the immediately adjacent pages. Sequel to Elsie and the Bunny, with the Bunny showing her all the improvements to..... More about Another Adventure of Elsie and the Bunny

C. Arthur Pearson, 1921, 1922. Original edition. Hardcover. 4 (index), 1104pp. Packed with articles, stories, illustrations and advertisements. Pages in good order and unmarked, with some toning and occasional minor soiling or offsetting. Quarto, 11.5 x 8.5ins, recased in the original binding of red pictorial cloth. In very clean, firm... More about The Scout. Volume XVII for 1922. August 1921 - July 1922

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1925]. First printing with Robinson illustrations. Hardcover. 269pp, with text illustrations in line, a colour frontis, and pictorial endpapers. Extremely bright and fresh throughout. The original owner's home-made bookmark was found at p256-7, where it has left a thin line down the gutter, and a faint... More about Once on a time

London: John F. Shaw, n.d. [c.1932]. Presumed first edition thus. Hardcover. Quarto edition, 10 x 7.5ins. [192]pp, with line illustrations and 12 very good colour plates. 1932 adult gift inscription to back of frontis: contents otherwise very clean and fresh, with some foxing to the title page and a few... More about Mother's Bible Stories