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

London: Constable, n.d. [1919]. First Rackham edition. Hardcover. 10, 170pp, plus the 16 tipped-in tissue-guarded plates mounted on captioned grey card. Grey pictorial endpapers. Moderate foxing to white pages throughout: plates all fine, some guards creased, and some offsetting to facing pages from tissue guards. Closed fore-edge foxed. 1919 gift... More about Some British Ballads

London: W. & R. Chambers, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 336pp, with the four monochrome plates. Surface mark to edge of front endpaper. Contents clean and firm with negligible soiling to a few pages. In the original tan pictorial cloth titled in brown and blocked in green and black: slightly rubbed... More about The Captain of the Fifth

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 61, [3] adverts. Contents clean and unmarked. Slight toning to endpapers. In the original binding of smooth blue cloth with pictorial onlay to the front, and with a paper spine label, which is chipped and tanned. The front illustration, by D.M. Wheeler, is... More about Dormer Windows

London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1925]. First Rackham Edition. Hardcover. x, 227pp, with pictorial endpapers, 4 colour plates, and 16 drawings in line. Contents clean and unmarked, with some tanning to endpapers. Quarto, in the original binding of blue cloth, decorated and titled in gilt; boards clean, bright and firm, with... More about Where the Blue Begins