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CHILDREN
• EDUCATION[
]
Christmas Gift of
Riddles & Other Mental Fun
Old Friend. Mince pies for Christmas, and for all merry seasons: consisting of riddles, charades, rebuses, transpositions, and queries. London: Printed for Tabart & Co., 1812. 24mo (13.5 cm, 5.25"). Frontis., vi, 192 pp.
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• Gumunchian 4045; Osborne Collection, 223 and 850 (for earlier editions). Early 19th-century green half calf with green marbled paper sides, red spine label; moderate leather wear and paper rubbed. Title-page with light offsetting from frontispiece and a small central piercing that takes three letters; cropped variously close in margins, not touching type. Four riddles on one page ticked in pencil; text otherwise clean. 
A nice copy. (39685)
“Stick, Stick, Beat Dog”The old woman and her pig. [New-York: McLoughlin Bros., 1890?]. Small 8vo (19.9 cm, 7.75"). [6] ff. (incl. boards); illus.
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very colorful McLoughlin Brothers' “linen” books, here in the “Pleasewell Series.” Illustrated with four fine full-page chromolithographs and one double-page, with two of those images reused on the covers (but in the mirror image of those in the text).
• Very good condition. With pencilledinscription to a child “from papa and mama, Dec. 25–1890,” at top of first page. (38771)
The Venerable HistoryCOMPLETE
(OXFORD). Peshall (or Pechell), John. The history of the University of Oxford, to the death of William the Conqueror. Oxford: 1772. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). [2], 32, [6] pp. [with his] The history of the University of Oxford, from the death of William the Conqueror, to the demise of Queen Elizabeth. Oxford: Pr. by W. Jackson & J. Lister for J. & F. Rivington, 1773. 4to (27.3 cm, 10.75"). [4], 264, [2] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. politics, religious controversies, town–gown contretemps, and epidemics. Sir John Peshall (sometimes given Pechell, formerly Pearsall), sixth baronet, was a clergyman and antiquary known for his philanthropic activities; he was himself an Oxford man (BA 1739, MA 1745). 
• ESTC T63374 & T68757. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper–covered sides, rebacked and corners refurbished; marbled paper sides with surface wear. Front pastedown with bookplate as above, pastedown and free endpaper with small pencilled annotations. Octavo history with small portion torn away in outer margin (only) of final “Additions” leaf; quarto history with dust-soiling to title-page around edges of bound-in octavo and following leaves showing impression of bind-in. Occasional light foxing only, to both items, mostly confined to margins; quarto with a very few early inked corrections and annotations. (33314)
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Sirs Substantive & Pronoun, Corporal Syllable,[Peacock, Thomas Love]. Sir Hornbook, or, Childe Launcelot's expedition. A grammatico-allegorical ballad. London: Joseph Cundall, 1843. 16mo (16 cm, 6.125"). 28, 3, [5] pp.; 8 col. plts.
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eight hand-colored lithographic plates by H. Corbould, with tissue guards. This is a “New edition” as per the title-page, appearing as part of “The Home Treasury” series. The work was first published in 1814 and is here in the first Cundall edition; the Osborne catalogue explains that Peacock and Henry Cole, the “Home Treasury” editor, met some time after 1814, and Cole liked Sir Hornbook so much that he republished it.
Provenance: Signature on front fly-leaf of John Yeames (1 January 1846); related late 19th–century ownership note on front free endpaper; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Osborne Collection, p. 729; Gumuchian 3077. Publisher's boards covered with green paper printed with intertwined vine pattern; paper rubbed, spine darkened with extremities chipped, front cover with small inkstain in upper inner corner. Inscriptions and booklabel as above. A few interior smudges. Without the publisher's ads at the end; good++. Lithographs very bright! (38919)
TONGUE FUN!Peter Piper's practical principles of plain and perfect pronunciation. London: Grant & Griffith, [ca. 1843-56?]. 12mo (18 cm, 7"). 32, [3 (ads)], [1 (blank)] pp.; color illus.
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24 hand-colored wood engravings with a verse below each, one page for each letter and engraving, X,Y & Z sharing a page. The imprint on the cover is “London, John Harris.” At the end is a collection ofriddles, a happy bonus.
• Plain pale green-gray light boards printed in black; soiling to boards and fraying along spine. Occasional spotting in margins. Hand-coloring brilliant. (38719)
“Little Boys Should not Meddle with Guns”Picket, Albert. A picture book for little children. Philadelphia: Kimber & Conrad, no date (1812?). Narrow 24mo (14 x 6.5 cm; 5.5" x 2.5"). [12] ff., illus.
Click the images for enlargements. in a rather unusual, tall and slim format. Some are of a moral nature: “Children obey your mother,” “Do not rob the poor farmer,” “Do not drink too much,” and “Do be kind to the poor black boy.” Others offer advice: “A kite should never be raised in the street,” “Little boys should not meddle with guns,” and “Always look at a person when you speak to him.” One caption shows the publishers were not above self promotion: “The bible is the best of all books. Children who can read in the bible may go to Kimber & Conrad's Store and buy one for themselves.”
There are two illustrations with captions per page. Some of the engravings are reworkings of illustrations that had appeared previously (e.g., in The Wonderful Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Albany, 1810; Mother Goose's Melody, Worcester, 1794); others are entirely original to this production.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 11163 & 26465; Rosenbach, Children, 466; Welch 993. Original yellow stiff wrappers, splitting along the spine. Small chip missing from the top of the title-page. The impressions are various, with some quite faint and others very bright and crisp. A good copy. (36385)
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In a Wonderful, COLORFUL Slipcase with
Embossed & Chromolithographed Onlays Picture books for little children. London: Religious Tract Society, 56, Paternoster Row, 65, St. Paul's Churchyard, and 164, Piccadilly, [ca. 1865]. 16mo (15 cm, 6"). 12 vols. Each volume 12 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.an American flag–topped buoy between it and the shore.
a charming wood engraving on every page, accompanying the stories and poems about honesty, breadmaking, good habits, foreign people, birds, and conduct of life in general.
WorldCat locates only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership, and at least one of the reported sets is incomplete. The publication date given here is that suggested by the Osborne Collection.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
• Osborne Collection, p. 765. Blue textured paper over cardboard slipcase; embossed red paper onlay on front, printed in gold and titled “Picture books”; chromolithographed paper onlay on front (as described above). One of the chapbooks has small repairs, others variously displaying a small chip, a light stain, or a bit of creasing; else and indeed, very good. (39521)
Common Author / Uncommon TitlePilkington, Mrs. (Mary). Confidence in parents, the only security for happiness; or, The misery that is certain to attend deceit. New Haven: From Sidney's Press, 1817 [i.e., 1818]. 24mo (14 cm; 5.5") 46, [2] pp.
The date on the front wrapper is “1818" while that on the title-page is “1817.”
WorldCat locates only one library worldwide reporting ownership (American Antiquarian Society).
• Shaw& Shoemaker, 41826; Welch 1000. Original rose-colored wrappers; stained and foxed copy in the text. A good copy but one that has suffered from time in improper environmental conditions. Priced accordingly. (38693)
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Kendrew “Penny Book” Chapbook in the 16-Page FormatPolly, Miss, & Master Tommy. A collection of birds and riddles. York: J. Kendrew, Printer, [ca. 1820]. Near miniature (10 cm, 3.75"). 16 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements.near-miniature chapbook with alternating riddles and verses on birds, the whole illustrated with15 wood engravings. As is so common with “penny books,” this has no publication date but we use that suggested by the Osborne collection.
Kendrew issued “penny books” in 16-page and 32-page series: “The sixteen-page books differ from the longer in that nearly all of them are wholly in verse. . . . There is a more lavish use of wood-engravings than in the larger books. In general the illustrations are smaller. . . . The impression given by the content and appearance of these books is that they were intended for younger children or perhaps for children to read themselves, whereas the thirty-two-page and twenty-four-page books were intended to be read to children by adults” (Davis, p. 34).
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
• Osborne Collection, p. 57; Davis, Kendrew of York, pp. 33–35, & checklist #5. Stitched as issued, in yellow self-wrappers. Clean and crisp. (38909)
Hospital Reform for
the Benefit of Orphans Portugal. Sovereign (1750–77, Joseph). [begins] Eu el rey. Faço saber aos que este Alvará virem: Que sendo o decurso dos tempos sujeito as grandes alterações, que vem a fazer necessarias muitas novas, e antes não cogitadas providencias ... Havendo sido util, e louvavelmente erigido o Hospital dos Expostos da Cidade de Lisboa.... [Lisbon]: Na Regia Officina Typografica., 1775. Folio (29 cm; 11.5"). 7, [1 (blank)] pp.
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No copies found via WorldCat or COPAC.
• Removed from a bound volume; now in modern wrappers. Old foliation neatly inked in upper outer corners; clean, with wide margins. (28222)
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From aSuccessful & Insightful Indian Civil ServantPrinsep, Henry Thoby. The India question in 1853. London: William H. Allen & Co., 1853. 8vo (19.6 cm, 7.75"). [2], 111, [1 (blank)] pp. 
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education and the press to finance, the administration of justice, and how best to govern the country.
• NSTC 2P27024. On Prinsep, see: DNB. Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly age-toned. Traces of soiling and small inked numeral on title-page. A few instances of pencilled sidelining. (11186)
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Dutch PrizePropertius, Sextus. Sex. Aurelii Propertii elegiarum libri IV. Trajecti ad Rhenum: Barth. Wild, 1780. 4to (26.3 cm, 10.4"). [10], xiv, [2], 990 (i.e., 996; pagination repeats 627–32), [2] pp. 
Binding/Provenance: Prize binding of contemporary vellum, covers framed and panelled in gilt rolls with gilt-stamped corner fleurons and gilt central vignette with the crest of the city of Amsterdam, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. The partially printed, partially inscribed, bound-in prize certificate reads “Ingenuo magnaeque spei adolescenti, Henrico Gerteler propter insignes in artibus humanioribus progessus, in classe tertia . . . Quod testor R. v. Ommeren [/] Gymnasii publici Amstelaedamensis Rector,” dated 1791.
• Brunet, IV, 905; Dibdin, I, 385–86; Graesse, V, 460; Sandys, II, 455; Schweiger, II, 831. Binding as above, vellum slightly darkened, lacking ties; spine with gilt dimmed and traces of a now-absent label and inked call number at foot of spine. Lower edges with institutional rubber-stamp; title-page with shadow of a pencilled numeral. Front free endpaper with paper adhesions from a now-absent bookplate; back pastedown with rubber-stamp and small adhesion. Pages clean save for offsetting to upper margins of a few, from a laid-in slip. (20594)
“A Faint Heart Never Won a Fair Lady”Proverbs of Little Solomon. Containing entertaining stories... Edinburgh: Published by Oliver & Boyd, Netherbow, [1808–09]. 48mo (10.3 cm, 4"). [32] pp. (including wrappers); illus.
Click the images for enlargements.This threepenny chapbook is illustrated with wood engravings in the Bewick manner; the illustrations include a frontispiece, title-page vignette, and six wood engravings, three of which are signed “Lee.” Although the work is undated, the Scottish Book Trade Index in the National Library of Scotland shows that Oliver & Boyd's years of activity at Netherbow address were 1808 through 1809. (Pages 1 & 32 are blank and are pasted to the inside of the wrappers.)
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
WorldCat locates only seven North American libraries reporting ownership (CalBerkeley, UCLA, UFlorida, Wayne State, Princeton, Connecticut College, Toronto Public Library).
• Osborne Collection, p. 291. Mauve-colored printed wrappers with only a faint touch of soiling; else very good and clean. (38904)
“AND If You Read this Book to Methe Raree Show You Then Will See”
“Puzzlecap, Peter” [pseud.], comp. Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs, and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles. Glasgow: Lumsden & Son, [1815–1820?]. Near miniature (10 cm, 3.875"). 32 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements.The 28 wood-engraved illustrations are interesting and good, but attribution to the artist is in dispute. Hugo attributes them to Thomas Bewick while Roscoe differs, saying “. . . Hugo's statement 'with 28 charming cuts by Thomas Bewick' cannot be justified.”
The date of publication is suggested by the Bodleian Library and by Roscoe & Brimell.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Roscoe & Brimell, Lumsden, 17; Hugo, Bewick, 315; Gumuchian 1571. Tan illustrated stiff wrappers with large cut of Darby and Joan on front wrapper and a cobbler in his stall on rear one. “Gammer Gurton” in neat hand in top margin of front wrapper. Top edge gilt. Clearly removed from a nonce volume at some past time. 
Very good. (38906)
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“Little Orphant Annie's Come to Our House to Stay”Riley, James Whitcomb; Ethel Franklin Betts, illus. The Orphant Annie book. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., (copyright 1908). 4to (29.4 cm, 11.6"). [30] pp.; 8 col. plts.
Click the images for enlargements.the first edition with Betts's illustrations. Philadelphia-born Ethel Franklin Betts (1877–1959) was a prolific illustrator, particularly of magazines and children's books; here her work first enhances the classic piece that inspired many differently imagined “Little Orphan Annies” across the decades — although Riley's little homemaker and teller of moral horror stories does not much remind one of any of her later avatars in the funny papers, in films or on the radio, or on Broadway!
Provenance: Front fly-leaf with early inked inscription of Marjorie S. Ingraham of South Lynnfield, MA.
• BAL 16687. Publisher's dark green cloth, covers with color-printed illustration; light wear to edges and extremities, covers with a few small scuffs. Fly-leaf with inscription as above and with tiny paper adhesions at top and lower edges. Pages and plates clean. A landmark American children's book, here in a delightful copy. (38674)
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Catholic Catechism inAZTEC — First Edition — Interesting Binding
Ripalda, Gerónimo. Catecismo mexicano. Mexico: Impr. de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1758. Small 8vo (14.5 cm; 5.75"). [17] ff., 170 pp., [1] f.
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prologue intended to persuade Indians in particular to read and learn this catechism.
The volume is illustrated with woodcut arms on the verso of the second title-page and bears many woodcut initials and tailpieces throughout This copy retains Ortuño's engraved frontispiece (often missing) of St. Francis.
Binding: A very interesting contemporary Mexican sprinkled calf binding, probably by a “provincial” binder. Covers with a single gilt-roll border having a modest corner device in each corner, that tool reused to form a four-part center design on each cover; same gilt-roll used on spine to accent the slightly raised bands and form spine compartments, one of these compartments with a spine-label and one having the covers' corner device gilt-tooled at its center. Board edges also with a gilt-roll design; all edges green. Highly unusual endpapers of a pattern in blue and red resembling images of strings in string theory: This is the first time we have ever seen this pattern.
• Garcia Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 56; Viñaza 341; H. de León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli, 2286; Palau 269110; Medina, Mexico, 4500; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VI, 210–211; Sabin 71488; Leclerc 2334; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2891. Binding as above, in good condition; light offsetting from it to early and late leaves. A few small areas of discoloration where candle wax spilled on a page, and a bit of other light toning; p. 135 with “Per Omnia Secula Seculorum” neatly written in bottom margin. Very good. (34611)
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Scots Antiquarianism — ILLUSTRATED Ritson, Joseph, ed. The Caledonian muse: A chronological
selection of Scotish poetry from the earliest times. London: Robert Triphook, 1821. 8vo. Frontis., iv, 232 pp.
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rhymes, Robin Hoodiana, English songs and ballads, and
English and Scottish poems. Shortly before the present work was supposed to
be published in 1785, a fire destroyed part of the printer's warehouse and the
manuscript of Ritson's introductory essay; the surviving sheets, printed in
octavo with horizontal chain lines, make their first appearance here with a
new introduction. The poems are illustrated with vignettes engraved by Heath
after Stothard's designs, and with small woodcuts by Bewick. The frontispiece
is an engraved silhouette portrait of Ritson.
• NSTC 2R11677; Lowndes 2099; Hugo, The Bewick Collector, 434. Contemporary half dark green morocco with red marbled paper sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; some rubbing and with a bit of green discoloration to paper of front cover. Minor offsetting to frontispiece and title-page; mild to moderate foxing in first third of volume and to last few pages. (21934)
First on Several FrontsRojanovsky, Fedor [Feodor], illus.; Esther Averill & Lila Stanley, eds. Daniel Boone. Paris: Domino Press, 1931. Folio (36.5 cm, 14.4"). [16] pp.; col. illus.
Click the images for enlargements. the brightly colored lithographic illustrations are five-color direct from the stones by Mourlot Frères of Paris.
• Allen & Allen, Feodor Rojankovsky: The Children's Books and Other Illustration Art, DP1.a. Publisher's color-printed paper–covered boards with blue cloth shelfback; corners and spine extremities rubbed, spine gently sunned, cream paper very slightly darkened with a few faint spots. Pages fresh and clean. A very nice copy of a landmark work of children's illustration. (38684)
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Documenting anItalian-American Immigrant Success StoryRosa, Giuseppe. Archive of manuscript and printed material, on paper, in Italian, English, and Spanish. New York City & elsewhere: 1902–18.
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the White House, the mayor of New York, the Red Cross (for donations), etc.
This archive seems destined to be used not only by historians of Italian-American history but by historians of immigration generally, émigré culture at the beginning of the 20th century, fashion, self-help, education, advertising, and entrepreneurship, to mention but a few obvious areas of social research.
• A few items quite worn, but overall generally only minor wear. Some items are on poor-quality paper of the era and thus brittle. A gathering fully ready to be worked with, and by multiple sorts of scholars. (39404)
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“Give EachDOG His Due”[Roscoe, William]. The council of dogs. Illustrated with suitable engravings. Philadelphia: Brown & Merritt for Johnson & Warner, 1809 [i.e., 1821]. Square 8vo (13.1 cm, 5.2"). 16 pp.; 8 plts.
Click the images for enlargement.eight plates are delicately limned copper engravings and the first one, which acts as the frontispiece, is, as in all copies, pasted to the front board of the binding.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Rosenbach, Children's, 603; Shoemaker 5091. Publisher's plain salmon-colored paper over light paste boards. Some plates browned as in all copies; glue stains showing through frontispiece. A few leaves mildly foxed. A nice book, a charming book. (38470)
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Father ofPediatric Medicine Rosén von Rosenstein, Nils. Des Herrn Nils Rosén von Rosenstein ... Anweisung zur Kenntniss und Cur der Kinderkrankheiten. Göttingen und Gotha : Bey Johann Christian Dieterich, 1768. 8vo (17.7 cm; 7"). [8] ff., 541 (i.e., 539 ), [1] pp., [7] ff.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Garrison and Morton say of the first edition in English: “Sir Frederick Still considered this work 'the most progressive which had yet been written;' it gave an impetus to research which influenced the future course of paediatrics.”
Translator Murray (1740–91) was a Swedish student of Linnaeus and later a professor of botany and medicine at Göttingen.
Provenance: Bookplate of Adamus Elias Schmidt, dated 1784. Early 19th-century signature of a Philadelphia doctor (erased) at top of title-page.
• G&M 6323. Contemporary half calf, well worn: leather dry and gone to red with joint leather lost, cords holding, paper of covers worn through to boards in some places. Text with age-toning. Not a pretty copy but complete, and solid for now. Housed in a red cloth clamshell case. (22256)
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Catalogue of His Own Collection — Early American Children's BooksRosenbach, A.S.W. Early American children's books. Portland, ME: Southworth Press, 1933. Stout 4to (27 cm; 10.625"). lix, 354 pp., [86] leaves of plates; facsims. (some col.).
Click the images for enlargements. 88 copies on Zerkall Halle paper and bound in blue pigskin, out of a total edition of 585 copies, this being copy XIII (i.e., 13), signedby Rosy below the number.
Rosenbach was the leading bookseller in America during the first half of the 20th century, helping to form the collections of Huntington, Folger, Widener, Doheny, Bell, Lilly, Clements, and many others. His personal collecting included American Judaica and Early American children's books. This is the highly illustrated and very bibliographically detailed catalogue of his personal collection of the latter. The collection was donated to the Free Library of Philadelphia.
The introduction is by A.E. Newton, Rosenbach's friend and customer, and a man whose own books on the joys of collecting helped fuel the fashion for it in the 1920s and 30s.
• Blue pigskin, embossed in black on covers with an early American design; rebacked in plain blue morocco; abraded joints nicely refurbished. In the original black cloth slipcase but without the paper label. A good+ copy. (34040)
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Perishable Press: Marking the OccasionRothenberg, Jerome. B • R • M • TZ • V • H. Mount
Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1979. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [8] pp.
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signed by the author. This is one of 225 copies printed in black and gray on Umbria paper and pamphlet-sewn in a single, four-folded sheet of Raffaello Roma. Walter Hamady's usual
colophonic flair is showcased here: the edition statement is composedacrostically.
• Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 90. Publisher's paper wrappers, front wrapper with title printed in off-white. Crisp and clean. (30903)
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“I Made Them Learn Some Songs to Sing to Their Own Dancing”Ruskin, John. Autograph Letter Signed, to Mrs. [William] Cowper [later Cowper-Temple]. Winnington Hall, Northwich, Cheshire: [ca. 12 December 1864]. 12mo (20 x 12.5cm; 7.875" x 4.875:). 3 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. This letter to Mrs. Cowper (née Georgianna Tollemache) colorfully, vividly, and indulgently describes the energetic merrymaking of those girls who have not gone home for Christmas holiday. There are about 14 or 15 of them and on the wet day before that of the letter they played at noisy “hide & seek all day” in the enormous building: “The house has about three quarters of a mile of up and down corridors” and presently there are “seven or eight dozen empty rooms” because of the absent girls. As per our caption, he also writes in detail about teaching songs and dances to his charges.
On a personal note, he will go and have dinner with the Cowpers on Monday, he promises.
The text of the letter was published from the Cook and Wedderburn transcripts in the Bodleian Library (The Winnington Letters, ed. by Van Akin Burd, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1969; pp. 531–32). There are two small differences in the original that are not found in the printed version.
Provenance: In the stock of Thomas H. Telford, an antiques and book dealer; sold in 1933 to Mrs. W.S. Bowen of Westfield, N.J.
• Written on Winnington embossed stationery. Not the easiest hand to read but clearer than not. Old folds, fore-edges a little crumpled, short fold tears. Overall very good. (34781)
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Mid-19th-Century Music for
the Young
Russell, Benjamin A., & Charles Walton Sanders. The robin red breast; a new juvenile singing book. New York: Ivison & Phinney; Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co.; Buffalo: Phinney & Co.; et al., 1855. Oblong 8vo. 199, [1] pp.
Click the image for enlargement. This is the second edition, following the (scarce) first of 1852; the front cover differs from the title-page in giving the publication information as Chicago.
Provenance: Front pastedown with several early pencilled inscriptions, including one reading “To Vestilla from W.B. Lear, July 13th 1857.” A folded section from a smaller hymnal is laid in.
• Publisher's quarter sheep and printed paper–covered boards; binding darkened and rubbed, front joint starting from head, front cover creased. Front free endpaper partially excised and back free endpaper lacking; front pastedown with inscriptions as above, back pastedown with early inked annotations and numerals. First three leaves with central tear affecting several words. Laid-in hymnal pages with upper edges chewed. Moderate foxing and intermittent waterstaining; some corners dog-eared. Interesting for its graphically appealing cover and the array of its “juvenile” repertoire choices. (30255)
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The Bustle, Excitement, Culture, & NOISE of LONDONLaid Out for ChildrenS. W. [Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson?, Elizabeth Kilner?]. A visit to London: Containing a description of the principal curiosities in the British metropolis. Philadelphia: Published by Benjamin Warner ... sold also at his store in Richmond, Virginia (pr. by Wm. Greer), 1817. 24mo (14.8 cm, 5.75"). 111, [1] pp.; 6 plts., illus.
Click the images for enlargements.The Osborne Collection suggests Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson as author, while Moon gives strong evidence for Elizabeth Kilner.
WorldCat locates nine North American libraries reporting ownership.
Provenance: Late 19th-century signature of Rebecca B. Miller; a later bookplate removed; 1954 gift inscription to Hope Cooper W. Patterson from her grandfather. Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 42802; Welch, American Children’s Books, 1393; Moon, Benjamin Tabart's Juvenile Library, 94. Publisher's dark green quarter roan with tan paper sides; leather worn and starting to crack along the front joint. Inscriptions and booklabel as above. The expectable age-toning and light foxing to text and plates. A good++ copy. (38918)
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The Deluxe Anniversary EditionSabuda, Robert. The Christmas alphabet. [colophon: New York: Orchard Books, © 2004]. 8vo (19.7 x 25.7 cm, 7.75 x 10.125"). [6] ff.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements.a new pop-up of a wreath with a small mouse wearing a red foil Santa hat at the center. In this alphabetical celebration of Christmas, each page contains two intricate pop-ups — each designed to represent a different letter of the alphabet — hidden behind multicolored cards. The pop-ups themselves are chiefly in white, although a handful contain small accents in color, such as the stained glass window representing “W.” This offering includes the publisher's package insert describing the edition.
Beautiful designs in a decidedly giftable format. (38072)
ENJOYABLE Dictionaries for Adults & Children(Salesman’s Sample Book). Lewis, William Dodge, ed. The new Winston simplified dictionary and reference library. Philadelphia: Universal Book & Bible House, copyright 1937. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.9"). Frontis., [approx. 145] pp.; 25 plts. [with] Brown, Thomas Kite, Jr., ed. The new Winston simplified dictionary for young people. Philadelphia: Universal Book & Bible House, 1937. Frontis., [approx. 126] pp.; 20 plts.
The outer binding is red textured cloth with the front cover stamped in black and gilt, and the interior front cover sample for the children’s version is a different red textured cloth stamped in black. The leaves for subscribers’information are unused.
• Not in Arbour. Publisher’s cloth as described above, gently worn with corners rubbed and small scrape to front cover. Interior clean. (6954)
Prayers & Catechism in Latin & Greek for theBoys of St. Paul's SchoolSt. Paul's School (London, England). Preces catechismus et hymni Graecè et Latinè in usum antiquae et celebris scholae juxtà S. Pauli templum apud Londinates fundatore ... Johanne Coleto ... Londini: Ex officinâ Johannis Nichols et Sociorum, 1814. Small 8vo (18.5cm, 7.25"). Frontis. port., [1] f., 62 pp.
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Binding: Contemporary green straight-grain goat, spine gilt extra; both boards with a gilt double-rule outer border and an inner center frame of single gilt rule with large gilt corner devices. Board edges with a gilt roll; narrow turn-ins with a different gilt roll. All edges gilt.
Searches of WorldCat locate only six U.S. libraries (IU, NjNbT, PPiT, IEN, NNC, NNG) reporting ownership.
• Binding as above; spine sunned to olive, front cover with scuff sometime well disguised, boards showing signs of having been bent some time ago. Bookplate and label as above. A very few light spots of foxing, pages overall clean and crisp. Very good condition. A very attractive book. (39223)
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Canandaigua Imprint Sampson, Ezra. The brief remarker on the ways of man. Or compendious dissertations, respecting social and domestic relations and concerns, and the various economy of life; designed for, and adapted to,the use of American academies and common schools. Canandaigua, N.Y.: Pr. by J.D. Bemis & Co., 1821. 12mo. 264 pp.
• Shoemaker 6710. Publisher's sheep. Abrasions to covers and spine, with pieces of leather flaked off; joints abraded. Foxing. Tear to rear free endpaper. Bookplate on front pastedown. (1078)
“Not got a Bible!”?!Sherwood, [Mary Martha]. History of Emily and her brothers. By Mrs. Sherwood. Hartford: G. Goodwin & Sons, 1822. 12mo (13 cm, 5.125"). 22 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements.six small woodcut vignettes, including on the front wrapper and the title-page. The rear wrapper features a bookseller's advertisement.
Mrs. Sherwood (Mary Martha Sherwood, 1775–1851) was a beloved, prolific children's book author.
Searches of NUC Pre-1956, WorldCat, and Shoemaker locatejust four copies.
Provenance: Marcus Fay, 19th-century ownership inscription in ink on front wrapper. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Shoemaker 10261. For Mrs. Sherwood's works, see: F.J.H. Darton, Life and times of Mrs. Sherwood; and M.N. Cutt, Mrs. Sherwood and her books for children. Original green printed wrappers respined with cloth tape obscuring part of the text of the back wrapper; ex-library with rubber-stamps to inside of front wrapper and lower margins of first and final pages (not title). Light to moderate foxing. (38485)
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“A Youth of Folly Breeds an Age of Care”The sister's gift; or, The bad boy reformed. Published for the advantage of the rising generation. York: Printed by James Kendrew, Colliergate, 1826. 48mo (10 cm, 3.875"). 31, [1] pp.; illus.
nine half-page woodcuts (one in an oval) and two woodcut tailpieces, this chapbook contains the short story “The Sister's Gift” as well as the poem “My Mother.” Be warned that this “bad” boy istruly a sociopath and that the details of his misdeeds are harrowing.
Publisher's advertisement on back wrapper for “penny books printed and sold by J. Kendrew.”
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
• In printed yellow paper wrappers; removed from a nonce volume. Frontispiece and last leaf mounted on inside of covers as issued; a clean, nice copy. (38467)
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