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Scaring the Bejesus Out of Little
German-American Boys & Girls
Die Gefahr in den Strassen. Nebst Einigen andern Erzälungen. Philadelphia: gedruckt bey Jacob Meyer für Johnson und Warner, 1810. 12mo (13.5 cm; 5.375"). 36 pp.
$200.00
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First German-American edition and first German-language edition anywhere of The Dangers of the Streets and other Tales. The cataloguers at the American Antiquarian Society indicate that the large wood engraving on the title-page is by Alexander Anderson. This is in fraktur type.
Rosenbach, Children, 418; Welch 431; Shaw & Shoemaker 20192; German Language Printing in the U.S. 1770; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 1406. Not in Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson. Very nice copy in original light boards covered with salmon-colored paper. Light age-toning and light scattered foxing. (36290)
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ALDINE Attic Nights . . .
Gellius, Aulus. Auli Gellii noctivm Atticarvm libri vndeviginti. [colophon: Venetiis: in Aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, mense Septembri 1515. 8vo (17 cm; 6.625"). [32], 289, [51] ff. (errors in foliation, but complete).
$3000.00
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First of two Aldine editions published in 1515 of Gellius' only known work, with “duerniorem” on the final leaf as prescribed by Renouard. The iconic Aldine printer's device appears on both the title-page and the final leaf of text, with the fore-edge of the title-page having been slightly repaired long ago at the margin.
Gellius's Attic Nights, supposed to have been written for the entertainment and education of his children, offers a rich tapestry of the life and times of the Roman Empire under the five good emperors. In an informal style Gellius ranges from law, grammar, history, and literary criticism to evening chats with fellow students and visits to the awe-inspiring villas of Herodes Atticus, the most famous philanthropist of Athens. Editor Giovanni Battista Egnazio (1478–1553), an important part of the Aldine literary circle and executor of Manuzio's will, here presents a newly revised text — complete with two indexes and explanation of the Greek passages.
Renouard, Alde, 73.9; Brunet, II, 1523; Adams G344; Graesse, Trésor de Livres Rares, III, p. 45; Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie, II, p. 376; on Egnazio, see: Contemporaries of Erasmus, pp. 424–25. 18th-century vellum over boards with red and green gilt leather spine labels, one edge with one very small chip to vellum; fore-edge of title-page repaired, light age-toning, a few words in old ink to front endpapers, some unevenly trimmed pages with the occasional (chiefly light) marginal stain or spot. “A. Gellius” in old ink to fore-edge of volume.
A worthy Aldine. (37243)
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Prize Copy of
the Attic Nights
Gellius, Aulus. Auli Gellii Noctium atticarum libri XX prout supersunt quos ad libros msstos novo & multo labore exegerunt.... Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Cornelium Boutesteyn & Johannem du Vivié, 1706. 4to (26, 10.25" cm). Add. engr. t.-p., [34], 903, [65 (index; 1 final f. blank)] pp.
$650.00
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Gellius's Attic Nights, supposed to have been written for the entertainment and education of his children, offers a rich tapestry of the life and times of the Roman Empire under the five good emperors. In an informal style Gellius ranges from law, grammar, history, and literary criticism to evening chats with fellow students and visits to the awe-inspiring villas of Herodes Atticus, the most famous philanthropist of Athens. Brunet calls the present example the “Édition la meilleure qui ait paru jusqu'ici” of the Attic Nights. Originally edited by Joannes Fredericus Gronovius and then polished by his son Jacobus Gronovius, this version also includes notes and commentary by Kaspar Schoppe, Peter Lambeck, Louis Carrion, Antoine Thysius, and Jacobus Oiselius.
The additional engraved title-page, done by P. Sluyter after a design by J. Groere, depicts the author at work on a moonlit night, and is decorated with medallions of Athena and her owl; the title-page is printed in red and black, with an engraved vignette of an Attic city.
Binding: Prize binding (without certificate) of contemporary vellum, covers framed and panelled in double blind fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, gilt-stamped medallion on each cover showing a scimitar-wielding knight bearing two crossed keys on his shield, supported by monkeys and surmounted by lounging figures grasping snakes. Spine with gilt-ruled raised bands, gilt-stamped compartment decorations, and early inked title.
Brunet, II, 1524; Graesse, II, 46; Schweiger, II, 379. Binding as above, small areas of discoloration, ties now lacking; front hinge (inside) very unobtrusively reinforced. Front pastedown with affixed slip of old cataloguing, partially obscuring an early inked annotation. Title-page with shadows of pencilled numeral and publication annotation. Some margins darkened or with mild spotting, pages otherwise clean, and all edges red. (25963)

CAT-Master Dick becomes London's Lord Mayor: Illustrated Scottish Version
(Glasgow Chapbook). The history of Whittington and his cat. Glasgow: A. Paterson, [ca. 1820]. 16mo (10.3 cm, 4.05"). 16 pp.; illus.
$150.00
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Scarce Glasgow toybook version of the classic story, with
a total of eight woodcut illustrations: a vignette of the cat on the front wrapper and one of a wagon on the back, plus six scenes within the text. A search of WorldCat finds only one U.S. institution reporting holding this Paterson printing (Princeton).
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers, slightly faded, spine rubbed; front wrapper and first few leaves with horizontal crease. Pages with light offsetting, otherwise clean. (41178)
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Around the World with
Maps & Costumes
Goodrich, Samuel G. The second book of history, including the modern history of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Boston: Charles J. Hendee & G.W. Palmer and Co., 1838. 4to (19 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., 180 pp.; 16 maps.
$75.00
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From the author of Peter Parley's Tales: a children's history reader aimed at pupils who had come a bit further along from that first book. The accounts here of the development of Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Russia, China, etc., and the countries' foreign relations, are illustrated with
in-text wood engravings including depictions of Portuguese, Norwegian, Russian, “Algerine,” “Otaheitan,” and other national costumes; also included in the volume are
16 steel-engraved maps.
While the title-page gives the Boston publication line described above, the printed front cover gives Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co., 1838; this is a later edition, following the first of 1832.
A first impression is that “child” readers had, in 1832, much greater powers of attention to print than is now common, but indeed the history here is — the stories are — absorbing and evocative.
American Imprints 50587. Publisher's quarter sheep and printed green paper–covered boards, rubbed and worn; pages cockled and foxed, yet paper good and untattered. One page with stray ink marks, not obstructing legibility.
A good, solid, pleasing copy. (33716)
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The Beginning of the Greenaway Vogue
Greenaway, Kate. Under the window. Pictures & rhymes for children. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1878]. 8vo (24.1 cm, 9.5"). 64, [2] pp.; col. illus.
$450.00
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Kate Greenaway's first book, and one of only two for which she provided both text and illustrations: a best-selling introduction to her inimitable, sweetly sentimental style. This is the first edition, here in a later issue, with the printer's ornaments on either side of Evans' name on the title-page.
Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 253. Publisher's printed paper–covered boards with cloth shelfback; moderately rubbed overall with minor discoloration to upper outer portion of front cover. Hinges (inside) tender; intermittent light foxing and last leaf (printer's colophon) separated but present.
An ambitious production, with its ambitions achieved! (39009)

Near-Miniature Botany for
American Children
[Grout, Jonathan]. About plants. Worcester [MA]: Jonathan Grout, Jr. (pr. by Henry J. Howland), [ca. 1840]. 24mo (10.5 cm, 4.13"). [3]–24, [2] pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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Illustrated botanical toybook for children, opening with a so-called “insect plant” alleged to be part wasp and part vegetable(!). The other plants described are apple of Sodom (a type of milkweed), dragon's blood tree, nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, camphor, melon, pitcher plant, flax, and colombo [sic] — with
each of the eleven plants featuring its own wood-engraved vignette. The insect plant illustration is to be found on the back wrapper, while the title-page bears an additional vignette of an urn and foliage arrangement.
This is one of several variants printed by Grout, not all of which appear to have covered exactly the same plants. The set here differs from at least one other known issue of About Plants (described in WorldCat as comprising frankincense, camphor, cinnamon, cane, flax, fig tree, plantain, mandrake, lign aloe, and palm tree), although the present example does, as in the WorldCat description, have an alphabet following the title-page.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of American collector Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
American Imprints 40-16. Not in Gumuchian, not in Opie, not in Osborne Collection. Sewn as issued, sewing loosening; front wrapper lacking, back wrapper with short tear from spine, corners rubbed. Pages age-toned and faintly foxed with a smudge or two only; free of markings or other signs of childish usage. (41159)

“An Absolute Pedagogical Necessity for the Children of
All Well-To-Do Graphic Designers”
Hamady, Walter. John's apples. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1995. Folio (30.3 cm, 12" & 27.9 cm, 11"). [1] f., [1] f.
$350.00
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One broadside and one typed sheet promoting the 121st publication of the Perishable Press: a volume of poems by Reeve Lindbergh illustrated with paintings by John Wilde, “ostensibly a children's book concerning apples.” The limited edition is here described as “an attempt to show how books grow from idea to artifact,” with “surprises to delight the receptive and confound the costive.”
The broadside showcases Walter Hamady's inimitable style, both textually and typographically: The header is a jumble of decorative letters from the words “John's Apples,” and faint shadow text runs behind the main body of text, which in addition to the statements of purpose includes a pithy comment from the painter's ten-year-old granddaughter. The printing was done in gray-green, red, and black on cream-colored handmade paper with one deckle edge.
The typed sheet, which starts out with “Some critical acclaim and just plain comments about John's Apples aka the apple book,” offers blurbs and quirky reader responses to John's Apples. While this is a fairly simple and straightforward production by the Perishable Press's standards, Hamady clearly could not resist at least a touch of his usual flair, typing a number of lines in diagonal directions with reckless disregard for the straight and level.
Broadside with two nearly invisible mailing folds; one corner very slightly creased, otherwise unworn and clean. Sheet likewise with mailing folds, otherwise crisp and fresh.
Appealing and uncommon Perishable Press ephemera. (31234)
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Scarce Perishable Press Ephemera: “Laura Evans Hamady, PRINTER's DEVIL”
A Daughter's Beautiful Birth Announcement
(PROOFSHEETS)
Hamady, Walter. Proofs: Laura's birth announcement.
[Mt. Horeb, WI]: Perishable Press, 1975. 8vo (26.7 cm, 10.5"). [10] ff.; illus.
$1500.00
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Unusual and interesting ephemera, offering some insight into the design and printing process of the proprietor of the Perishable Press, as well as a nice example of his
inimitably quirky style: 10 proofsheets of Hamady's announcement of his daughter Laura's birth, reflecting the printer's experimentations with layout and color as well as his personal joy. Some of these proofsheets bear editorial marks in red ink, while one has the “Printer's Devil” header on an affixed slip of paper; several have the text printed in variant color schemes.
The sheets are printed on Plover Fineweave paper with the text set in Sabon Antiqua. At the head of each is a print of a nicely rendered pen-and-ink drawing of the Hamady farm (where “Mother Father & Daughter are well and thriving”), done by Jack Beal (“Laura's Uncle Jack”).
Not in Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press. Sheets laid into a manila envelope labelled in Hamady's handwriting. Clean and crisp; some pages with markings as above. (31364)
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London Cries & Old Mother Hubbard — Hand-Colored Engravings
[Harris, John, pub.]. Sam Syntax's description of the cries of London, as they are daily exhibited in the streets. London: John Harris, [ca. 1825]. 12mo (17.2 cm, 6.75"). Frontis., [1], 17 ff.; col. illus. [bound with] [Martin, Sarah Catherine]. The comic adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her dog: In which are shown the wonderful powers that good old lady possessed in the education of her favourite animal. London: John Harris, [ca. 1830]. 12mo. Frontis., 16, [1 (adv.)] ff.; col. illus.
$2250.00
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Two scarce juvenile works published by Harris, one of the pioneering producers of popular children's books of the early 19th century. The first item pairs
rhyming street calls with 16 vignettes of vendors with their wares, along with purchasers and would-be purchasers — as well as a frontispiece featuring Harris's storefront. The second item was “probably the most significant children's book that JH ever published . . . the first sign of his encouragement of a new kind of nursery literature — amusing, pretty, and without any moral teaching whatever” (Moon, p. 83). Both items are printed on facing pages (only), and appear here in their fourth editions as per Moon. Together, the two offer
a total of 34 hand-colored, wood-engraved illustrations.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with early inked inscription reading “Mlles Prevost Martin.” Later in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Syntax: Moon, John Harris's Books for Youth, 766(4); see also Osborne Collection, p. 630 and Gumuchian 1948 & 1949. Hubbard: Gumuchian 4329; Moon, 560(4); see Osborne pp. 683/84 (for 1st and 2nd eds). 19th-century half vellum and marbled paper–covered sides; paper rubbed, vellum darkened, upper outer corner bumped, none of this awful. Pages lightly age-toned and faintly creased, otherwise clean. An attractive copy, and
early editions of these beloved classics are now uncommon. (40758)

Harvard Library Catalogue Signed by
President Quincy
Harvard University. A catalogue of the library of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge: E.W. Metcalf & Co., 1830–31. 8vo (24.8 cm, 9.8"). 4 vols. I: xvii, [3], 490 pp. II: [2], [491]–952, [2] pp. III: xii, 233, [1] pp. IV: viii, 224 pp.
$1000.00
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First of the 19th-century catalogues of Harvard's holdings, here
uncut and unopened in four volumes, including the Catalogue of the Maps and Charts, which was published shortly after the three main volumes.
Provenance: Inscribed to a Philadelphia social club “from the President & Fellows of Harvard University,” signed by Josiah Quincy.
American Imprints 1772 & 7465; Sabin 30729 (vols. 1–3) & 30730 (maps). Publisher's quarter cloth and tan paper–covered sides, spines with printed paper labels; worn and soiled/stained but sound, with spines sunned and front lower outer corner of vol. I chipped. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, endpapers with call number, rubber-stamp on title-pages and a few others, no other markings. Front free endpaper of vol. I with inked inscription as above. (26904)

“This King Midas Was Fonder of
GOLD than
Anything Else in the World”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The golden touch. [San Francisco]: Grabhorn Press, 1927.
$85.00
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First published in Hawthorne's Wonder Book for Boys and Girls (1852), this is his retelling of the Midas story.During the heyday of the fine press movement in America, the
Grabhorns printed this handsome edition in 240 copies with illustration and title-page vignette drawn and then hand-colored by the indefatigable
Valenti Angelo.
Heller & Magee, Grabhorn, 93; BAL 7720; Clark A18.31. Publisher's quarter vellum with gold and blue patterned paper sides, in original papercovered slipcase; slipcase with edges sunned and with a rough partial split to one edge from one corner, volume internally and externally pristine. Unopened save one fold to show illustration; a fine copy. (33532)
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“There are Few Difficulties That Cannot be Surmounted by
Patience, Resolution, & Pluck”
Henty, G.A. Condemned as a Nihilist: A story of escape from Siberia. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. 8vo (19 cm, 7.45"). 332, 16 (adv.) pp.; 8 plts., 1 map.
$65.00
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First U.S. edition: Written by George Alfred Henty, a prolific and popular novelist who specialized in historical juvenile adventures, this jaunty tale features a Russian-born but English-raised teenager exiled to Siberia after obliviously mingling with the wrong crowd. Much of the plot involves hearty outdoor adventures — including camping, boating, hunting, and fishing — during the course of our hero's travels from the east of Siberia to Norway and thence back home.
Reproduced in black and white,
Walter Paget's eight illustrations depict dramatic scenes of survival including a boxing match with a prisoner, a bear attack, and a fight with hostile Samoyeds; they are accompanied by one double-page map of the Russian empire.
Binding: Publisher's teal cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and scene of a bearded man either tying or untying the hero stamped in black, brown, and gilt, spine similarly stamped; midnight blue endpapers and all page edges stained to match boards.
Dartt, pp. 40-41; Newbolt 58. Bound as above, binding very slightly cocked with edges and extremities lightly rubbed. Text clean.
A nice copy of one of Henty's less common titles. (38686)

Sutton's
Hospital in
Charterhouse
& The
Famous
Charterhouse
School
Herne, Samuel. Domus carthusiana: Or an account of the most noble foundation of the charter-house near Smithfield in London. Both before and since the Reformation. London: Pr. by T.R. for Richard Marriott & Henry Brome, 1677. 8vo (18.2 cm, 7.2"). Frontis., [46], 287, [1] pp.; 2 plts.
$1500.00
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First edition of this history of the Charterhouse, a charitable hospital and (eventually) elite boys' school founded by Thomas Sutton on the site of a former Carthusian monastery. The volume is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Sutton, a copperplate engraving of a Carthusian monk done by F.H. Van Houe, and an allegorical copperplate engraving of the House of Prayer. It is partly printed in black-letter.
Provenance: Rolle family armorial bookplate.
ESTC R10688; Wing (rev.) H1578; Allibone 813. Contemporary sheep, covers framed in blind double fillets; leather rubbed and scuffed, partially cracked along front joint. All edges marbled. Pastedowns peeled up, front pastedown with early inked inscription; inside front cover with armorial bookplate. Title-page with inked numeral in upper outer corner. (21012)

A Stubborn Pig Is Rewarded with a Clean Sty & Good Food
History of the Little Dame Crump and her white pig. London: J.L. Marks, [ca. 1835-57?]. 12mo (17.5 cm, 6.875"). [8] ff.; illus.
$375.00
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The approximate date of publication is suggested by Brown's London Publishers and Printers c.1800–1870. The verse text, in letterpress, is below the large half-page,
brightly hand-colored, wood-engraved illustrations, the whole printed on one side of each leaf only, the leaves bound facing each other; the first and last leaves are pasted to wrappers.
Provenance: Signature of John Duncrist in upper margin of front wrapper; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Cf. Osborne Collection p. 631. Original printed green wrappers; wrappers in past separated from text block and expertly reattached. Light staining in some inner margins. A very nice copy. (38799)

“Once Upon a Time”
History of the sleeping beauty in the wood. Montrose [Scotland]: James Watt, [ca. 1840]. 32mo (11.5 cm, 4.5"). 32 pp.; illus.
$350.00
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This chapbook telling of the classic fairy tale is illustrated with wood engravings on the frontispiece and title-page, and with eight in-text pictures as well. It was issued as #4 in Watt's “Penny Books New & Improved” series.
NUC and WorldCat locate only two libraries worldwide reporting ownership (National Library of Scotland, Princeton).
Provenance: From the chapbook collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Publisher's green wrappers, slight discoloration and a little paper loss at spine. Clean. (38786)

NEVER in Childish Hands — Cuts Very Well Impressed
The history of Tommy and Harry. York: J. Kendrew, [ca. 1820]. 16mo (10.3 cm, 4.1"). 30, [2] pp.; illus.
$250.00
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Virtually pristine copy of this penny toybook — a popular cautionary tale of two overly indulged brothers, one of whom prospers by way of his natural love of learning, and one of whom enjoys bad company and eventually goes to rack and ruin (not here, as some variants of this story have it, being eaten by wild beasts after a shipwreck, but rather more prosaically being sent to Newgate). The story is illustrated with eight woodcuts, two of which show the boys playing
badminton and marbles.
One signature at the back is unopened.
NSTC 2H10236. Publisher's light yellow printed paper wrappers, removed from a nonce volume. Clean, crisp, unread copy. (31946)
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“Earning for Himself a Character for Courage, Integrity, & Truth”
Home at the haven. London: Groombridge & Sons [Richard Barrett, Printer], [1860s?]. (14.2 cm; 5.625"). 48 pp., illus.
$75.00
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A widowed mother and her two children move to the home of her late husband's brother in the English countryside, where Lucy and Edward learn important life lessons through building a boat. From the second series of the “Stories for Summer Days & Winter Nights” library.
This work includes a
frontispiece and five in-text wood engravings signed by Edward Whymper (1840–1911), an Arctic explorer and mountaineer best known for being the first to successfully ascend the Matterhorn.
Publisher's green printed wrappers, soiling and splitting along spine; one leaf separated, a light pencil mark or two, a handful of bent corners. (36537)

Philadelphia “Prep” — The RARER of Two
Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. Opera expurgata, notis anglicis illustrata: Quibus præfixum syntagma prosodiale. Cura et studio Thomæ Dugdale. Philadelphiae: Impensis Solomon W. Conrad, excud. Guilelmus Fry, 1815. 8vo. xvii, [1 (blank)], 359, [1 (blank)] pp.
$125.00
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Important, early, American college-preparatory/college-level edition. The preface, explanatory matter, and notes are in English. The editor, Dugdale, taught in Philadelphia, and several teachers at the University of Pennsylvania whom he asked to review the volume recommend it to schools and colleges in the preface.
This is the rarer of two Philadelphia editions of 1815: It is not listed in NUC Pre-1956 and Shaw and Shoemaker located only one copy (at The American Antiquarian Society); we do know of some other copies. The other edition has the imprint reading “Impensis E. Kimber.”
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Shaw & Shoemaker 34951. Original treed sheep, leather label; spine, with gilt-stamped red leather label, a little pulled at bottom and rubbed at corners. Significant degrees of browning and foxing, as expectable of the paper used. Front free endpaper missing; volume opens on title-page.
An interesting volume in attractive condition. (41323)

A Game with Forfeits, a Dictator, & Mirth
(Illustrated Rhyming Game). The gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog: A new and entertaining game of questions and commands with proper directions for playing the game and crying forfeits: Embellished with thirteen coloured engravings. [London]: Republished by Field & Tuer, 1887. Small 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). [4], iv, [7]-29, [2] pp., [4 (ads)] ff.; [1] plt., col. illus.
$145.00
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Riddles and counting-out rhymes, all part of a fun game whose instructions serve as a preface. The text is printed on one side of a leaf only and
each printed page has a hand-colored illustration.
The work was first printed by Dean & Munday in 1823 and is here presented as vol. II in the Leadenhall Press “Series of Forgotten Picture Books for Children.”
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Buff-color printed wrappers with hand-colored vignette on front wrapper; stitched, head and foot of spine chipped, rear wrapper detached and reattached with archival tissue. A good++ copy. (38873)
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“R is for Readers”
Immel, Andrea. Jack Whirler's alphabet; or, The St. Paul's primer. Adorned with cuts by the Newberys. Princeton: Printed for the Cotsen Childrens' Library, at the sign of the Giant Book, 2014. 8vo (21.7 cm, 8.5"). 63, [1] pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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“It took antiquarian bookseller Justin G. Schiller years to find nearly four hundred Newbery books, translations, harlequinades, board games, cards, manuscripts, and related materials. In 1990 [Lloyd E.] Cotsen purchased the collection from Schiller, knowing that such a trove was unlikely to be assembled again anytime soon. Since then, the collection has grown to over 550 items, making it the largest either in private hands or in a public institution.”
“Jack Whirler's Alphabet — 'Jack Whirler' being Dr. Johnson's nickname for John Newbery, the firm's famous founder — was inspired by the engaging alphabets the Newberys published, which must have made learning to read such fun. It concludes with a prose nonsense poem from one of the most famous of all Newberys, The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread.”
Each letter is represented by two Newbery blocks (“M is for Moon and Mine”); the facing text provides information on the origin of the illustrations, some of which are by Bewick.
Publisher's white pictorial wrappers with navy blue illustrations and navy blue lettering to spine; very faint dirtying to one corner of front wrapper. Interior is bright and clean. (38679)
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“Nurse Lovechild's Legacy” — The History of Nursery Rhymes
Immel, Andrea, & Brian Alderson. Tommy Thumb's pretty song-book. The first collection of English nursery rhymes: a facsimile edition with a history and annotations. Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2013. Folio box (32.7 cm, 12.87"). 4to: xv, [1], 121, [1] pp.; illus. I: [4], 59, [5] pp.; illus. II: [2], 64, [4] pp.; illus. III: [2], 63, [3] pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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Delightful, award-winning set offering both scholarship and aesthetic appeal: Facsimiles of the earliest known printed collection of nursery rhymes (Tommy Thumb's Song Book, 1744, followed by Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book Vol. II and The Pretty-Book), accompanied by an illustrated quarto volume featuring Immel and Alderson's bibliographical essay “Nurse Lovechild's Legacy” and their annotations to the rhymes. The commentary and the three miniature nursery rhyme volumes — the latter in scrupulous photo-facsimile, including the never-before reproduced Cotsen Children's Library copy of the Pretty Song Book — are presented in a well-designed cloth-covered clamshell case.
This set was
limited to 500 copies, designed and typeset by Patrick Reagh and Patty Holden, and printed and bound by Ken Coburn.
Quarto in publisher's purple cloth with gilt-stamped title on front cover, miniatures in red, crimson, and violet ribbon-stamped cloth with gilt-stamped title on front covers, the whole in a purple
cloth–covered clamshell case with compartments for each book; case with very slight sunning and ISBN label to back cover.
All volumes clean, crisp, and unworn. (40870)
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Children, THANKSGIVING, Glad Times!!
Irish, Marie, & Lenore K. Dolan. The glad time Thanksgiving book. Syracuse, NY: Willis N. Bugbee Co., © 1932. 12mo. 100 pp.
$40.00
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Children's collection of poems, recitations, playlets, dances, stories, and songs about thankfulness, especially thankfulness for various seasonal delights. This is the sole edition (while WorldCat appears to list a 1923 printing, further exploration shows that to be a data entry error based on this edition's 1932 copyright date).
Publisher's printed cream-colored paper wrappers, front wrapper with cornucop ia design in navy and gold; back lower outer corner bumped, light dust-soiling to back wrapper. One page with small affixed sticker in upper portion, partially obscuring header but no other text. (30227)
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