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CHILDREN • EDUCATION[
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One of the
First Two Books Printed at ETON
John, Mauropus, Metropolitan of Euchaita (active 11th century). Joannis Metropolitani Euchaitensis versus iambici in principalium festorum pictas in tabulis historias atq[ue] alia varia compositi. Etonae: In Collegio Regali, excudebat [M. Bradwood for] Ioannes Norton, in Gr[a]ecis, &c. regius typographus, 1610. 4to (22.8 cm; 9"). [4] ff., 73, [1] pp., [4] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. This, the editio princeps, was edited by and has the notes of Matthew Bust (1543 or 1544–1613), Fellow of Eton College and father of his namesake who was Master of Eton (1611–30). The prefatory matter and notes are printed in Latin in italics and the main text is in a large greek face; the actual printer's name is from STC.
Searches of STC, WorldCat, and ESTC locate many copies in Britain and even Europe, but only five in U.S. libraries.
Provenance: 18th-century ownership inscription at top of title-page: “Petri Bonifantii.” Most recently in the collection of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
An amazing early English schoolbook!
• STC (rev.) 14622; ESTC S103427. 20th-century quarter red morocco with red cloth sides. Light age-toning and some stray ink spots. In fact, very good. (37309)
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Reward Volume from a Teacher Johnny and Maggie, and other stories. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Co., [1852–60?]. 16mo (15.3 cm; 6"). 48, 14 pp. (publisher's catalogue).
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five full-page wood engravings (including title-page and frontispiece), in addition to smaller ornamental illustrations. The stories include “Johnny and Maggie” (two dolls), “The Coffee Pot and the Milk Pitcher,” and “M. Du Pratz and the Beavers.”Binding: Signed “Liebherre, GRA.” Midnight blue or purple cloth with blind-stamped boards and richly gilt-stamped spine.
Provenance: On front free endpaper, “Present to Albert Loomis by N.L. Tilden, Teacher.”
• Sternick, Bibliography of 19th-century children's series books: 1291. Binding as above, minor rubbing of spine foot and crown, gilt very bright. Calligraphic inscription and ownership stamp to front endpapers; light foxing throughout. 
Very good. (37749)
“The Greatest Commonwealth upon Earth”[Johnson, Richard]. A new Roman history, from the foundation of Rome to the end of the common-wealth ... Designed for the use of young ladies and gentlemen. London: E. Newbery, 1784. 12mo (14.4 cm, 5.67"). [2], vi, 136 pp.; 6 plts.
Click the images for enlargements.six copper-engraved plates, the first signed by Royce.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked inscription “Ann Thorold [/] 1790.” Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• ESTC T118612; Opie D 195; Osborne Collection, p. 167 (first ed.); Roscoe, John Newberry and His Successors, J263 (2). Contemporary treed calf, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label and gilt-stamped “faux” bands; joints and extremities rubbed, front joint refurbished, spine head chipped. Offsetting from turn-ins to margins of endpapers and fly-leaves; pages slightly age-toned with a handful of small ink spots.A sound and attractive little book complete with all its nice plates. (40552)
A Present for the Students of “the English Mezzofanti”Juvenal, & Persius. Decii Junii Juvenalis aquinatis satirae decem et sex[.] Auli Persii Flacci satirae sex. Londini: [colophon: Excudebat Carolus Whittingham], 1845. 4to (28.3 cm, 11.125"). [99] ff.
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Provenance: Printed presentation leaf at front inscribed to “Harford” with two inked dashes through a printed date of 1841; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• On Hawtrey, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Binding as above, rubbed and scraped with leather loss and some spotting; front hinge (inside) starting, boards firmly attached. Dust-soiling of varying degrees along top edges with the occasional spot; moderate foxing to first and last few leaves, two leaves with offsetting from ribbon placemarker that is still present. Presentation inscription and booklabel as above. (38839)
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EducatingGerman-American Boys & Girls in 1809Kleine Erzählungen über ein Buch mit Kupfern: oder Leicht Geschichte für Kinder. Philadelphia: Gedruckt [beyJacob Meyer] für Johnson und Warner, 1809. 24mo (14 cm; 5.5"). [22] ff., illus.
Click the images for enlargements. The title-page wood engraving is signed, “A” (i.e., Alexander Anderson) as are some of the other 18 wood engravings. The last two pages contain printings of the alphabet in majuscule and miniscule fraktur, the two- or three-letter vowel and consonant combinations of German, and the numerals from 1 to 0. 
A very nice copy; remarkably, beautifully clean. (36378)
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One Year's Worth ofWell-Spent Half HoursKnight, Charles. Half-hours with the best authors. [London: Charles Knight, 1847–48]. 8vo (22.8 cm, 9"). 4 vols. in 2. I: Frontis., engr. t.-p., [2], 312 pp., frontis., engr. t.-p., [2], 312 pp. II: Frontis., engr. t.-p., [iii]–iv, 312 pp., frontis., engr. t.-p., [iii]–iv, 316 pp.
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52 weekly issues meant to be consumed in half-hour portions, with each weekly number containing seven half-hours. (Indices and quarterly title-pages are bound in here.)
Knight, who was devoted to books and to literature from the time he was a small child, was a much-admired printer and publisher, as well as an author, reformer, and would-be educator: Many of his publishing endeavors were aimed at improving and enlightening the working class.
• NSTC 2K7731. On Knight, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. On binding cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth, style Wav3. Publisher's textured brown cloth, covers blind-stamped with muse motif and title, spines with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped decorations; lightly worn overall with some fading, vol. II spine head with traces of a strip of cloth tape. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Paper slightly embrittled (more so in second volume), with a few short edge tears. Externally ordinary; internally worthwhile. (26860)
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Marco Polo's TRAVELS, Adapted for 19th-Century Youth, by aCourt-Martialed Reporter Knox, Thomas Wallace. The travels of Marco Polo for boys and girls with explanatory notes and comments. New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons (pr. by Knickerbocker Press), 1885. 4to (23.2 cm, 9.125"). Frontis., xviii, 530 pp.; illus.
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numerous in-text and occasional full-page engravings; the front endpapers depict world geography as known in Polo's day, and the rear ones give a more contemporary view. A publisher's advertisement for “The Travellers' Series” and “Putnam's Library of American & Foreign Fiction” is laid in.
Binding: Publisher's deep blue cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in black and gilt; endpapers as above.
• Bound as above; extremities mildly rubbed, lower outer back corner bumped. Front fly-leaf with difficult-to-decipher inked ownership inscription dated 1885. Pages gently age-toned. An attractive and interesting take on Marco Polo for what would now be thought of as the “YA” audience. (40347)
Women Gone WEST . . . Now ca. 170 Years AgoLadies' Society for the Promotion of Education at the West. First annual report. Boston: Well-Spring Press, A.J. Wright, printer, 1847. 8vo. 38 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.No one here was sent to what came to be the “far” West — it wasn't yet time for that — but concerned as these young women surely were about unsaved frontier folk and “papal ascendancy,” they clearly felt themselves to be off on real adventures in places that were not, well, New England . . .
Apparently the last annual report was in 1852.
• Sabin 38542. Disbound. Clean. (38336)
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The ESSAYS that Made Lamb's Reputation — 1st U.S. Edition Lamb, Charles. Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Carey (pr. by Mifflin & Parry, and J.R.A. Skerrett), 1828. 12mo (I: 18.4 cm, 7.25", II: 16.8cm, 6.6"). 2 vols. I: 292 pp. II: 230 pp. (both vols. without ads.).
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true first edition of the unofficial second series, of Lamb's pseudonymously published essays for the London Magazine. These eloquently written pieces mingle humor and pathos as they describe the experiences of the author and his acquaintances while
attending boarding school, playing whist, listening to music, visiting Quaker meetings, etc. Food is a recurring topic (“A Dissertation upon Roast Pig”); there are two essays on Valentine's Day (one in each volume), and several on plays and actors.
The first series made its first appearance in book form in London, 1823. The authorized second series was not published until 1833, under the title The Last Essays of Elia; the pieces selected for the unauthorized American second series offered here are different from those contained in that volume, and mistakenly include three essays written by other hands.
• Shoemaker 33813 & 33814; NCBEL, III, 1225; NSTC 2L2346. Vol. I: Uncut copy. Publisher's quarter once-red cloth and paper sides, covers printed with “Elia” within a simple frame, spine with printed paper label; binding rubbed and lightly soiled, spine sunned to yellow. Repaired tear to one leaf, touching text without loss; remarkably clean and sound. Vol. II: Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; rubbed, and head of spine chipped with old refurbishing. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and call number ticket on front pastedown, front free endpaper with inked numerals, title-page pressure-stamped. Author's name inked on title-page; front free endpaper and title-page reinforced at fore-edge (the latter from the back). Both volumes age-toned, with intermittent spots of staining; advertisements absent. The set now housed in a quarter blue morocco and blue cloth–covered clamshell case with marbled paper–covered sides and gilt-stamped spine. (26434)
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A Concise Overview for aVery Special Student SubsetLe Blond, Guillaume. Abregé de geometrie à l'usage des pages de la Grande Ecurie du Roy. Où l'on donne ce qui est le plus nécessaire pour entrer dans l'étude des fortifications. Paris: Joseph Bullot & Jombert, 1737. 12mo (16.9 cm, 6.7"). [4], 162, [6] pp.; 5 fold. plts.
Click the images for enlargements.young men working in the royal stables who had only scant time available for the study of mathematics. In addition to a mathematician, professor, and contributor to Diderot's Encyclopédie, the author (1704–81) was a scholar of military tactics, responsible for Éléments de tactique and Traité de l'attaque des places among other items.
This now-uncommon textbook is illustrated with five folding engraved plates of diagrams. WorldCat showsjust one U.S. institution (Society of the Cincinnati) reporting a copy, and only a handful of overseas holdings.
Provenance: Title-page with early inked inscription “de Ratzenried” and front pastedown with von Ratzenried armorial bookplate (coat of arms showing greyhounds and a moon with clouds) labelled F.C.V.R.: possibly Franz Carl Anton von und zu Ratzenried.
• Contemporary mottled calf, board edges with gilt roll, spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped leather title-label, and compartments gilt extra; light wear overall, edges and joints moderately rubbed. All edges speckled red. Bookplate and inscription as above. Pages with occasional small pencilled marks of emphasis, otherwise clean; one plate with outer edge slightly tattered. A very nice copy, in contemporary binding, of this scarce practical compendium. (40246)
A Very Large University BroadsidePrinted on SILKLinares Montefrio y Martinez, Evaristo. Broadside. Begins, Excmo. domino ac semper domino meo, D. Josepho Moñino, comiti de Florida Blanca ... Exoptat hihi iam diu illuxit dies ... quo publicum oc non tantum mei in studiies, profectus, verum etiam grati animi significationes testimonium exhiberem. Toleti [i.e., Toledo]: apud Nicolaum de Almanzano, typographum universitatis, 1782. Folio (76 x 57 cm, 31" x 22.5" ). [1] p.
Click the image for an enlargement.letterpress broadside on rose-colored silk was the official announcement of that test. The oral examination centered on Justinian's Institutes, specifically book three, title 26.
It is handsomely printed using several point sizes of roman and italic, with center justification in the top portion and full justification below. Around the printed area are wide margins on the four sides, which margins contain16 large, crisp, evenly spaced impressions of the city of Toledo's double-headed eagle, with crown above, sword in its right talon and mace in its left.
Boadsides were an important source of income for handpress-era printers in Europe and Spanish America and the printers offered “package deals” to the families of the graduate and post-graduate degree postulants; the packages were geared to the students' families' economic means. Broadsides could be large (folio) or small (8vo), have an engraving or not, have a border of type ornaments or not, and be printed on standard paper or colored paper (usually blue); if one splurged, one could get the announcement printed, as here, on silk. The usual total number of copies printed for each candidate is unknown at this time, but is likely to have been only one or two dozen, and we also don't know if more than one silk copy was printed when that top option was in fact ordered. In extravagant cases, one can imagine one for the degree candidate, one for the parents, one for each godparent, etc.; still, such cases would probably have been few.
Certainly, the printers would have been willing to rake in as much money as possible, on each happy occasion, and these richly beautiful silk mementos — doubtless proudly displayed for years going forward in homes or offices — would have been excellent ongoing advertisements. Equally clearly, however, the number of copies of all of the defense broadsides surviving is small, and 
the survival of those on silk is very small.
No copies of this broadside are traced via the usual bibliographies, nor via NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, KVK, CCPB, or the OPACs of University of Toledo and the national library of Spain.
• Rose-colored silk, with old folds; sun-fading variously and rather attractively approaching pinks and apricots. Sides “accented” by an attractive retained green and white selvage edge; bottom edge hemmed and top one, possibly once so, now with fraying and a bit of ravelling; near the broadside's center, a round hole costs six letters. Still, at 230+ years old, frankly gorgeous. (39844)
Still Thoughtful — Still Thought-ProvokingLippman, Walter. The scholar in a troubled world. An address delivered as the Phi Beta Kappa oration at the commencement exercises of Columbia University May 31, 1932. New York: Press of the Wooly Whale, 1932. 8vo. [40] pp. 
Click the image for an enlargement. • Metallic marbled paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Clean and pleasant, in original glassine dustwrapper remarkably intact. (31136)
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The Falcon “flies as fast on Mondays as on other days” — Little Frank's almanack, to show little boys and girls their play days. Concord: Moore's Power Press, 1832 [i.e., 1836]. Near miniature (9 cm, 3.5"). [1] f., 7, [7] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements.hints on how to remember what's being presented.Provenance: From the chapbook collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
• Drake, Almanacs, 4945. Fine copy in original illustrated wrappers. (38778)
She's Lost Her Petticoats . . . *&* Her Identity! The little woman and the pedlar. [London: No publisher, ca. 1830–35]. 16mo (16.4 cm, 6.375"). 16 pp.; 8 col. plts.
Click the images for enlargements.eight brightly hand-colored plates printed on one side of each leaf; the first colored plate is signed by “Austin” in the corner. The original wrappers are bound in, with an engraving of the little woman shivering with her legs exposed to the cold on the front wrapper and 28 titles of “Juvenile Books” listed on the rear wrapper.
Provenance: On front pastedown, a bookplate of The Pierpont Morgan Library; small note of deaccession (with librarian's initials) on verso of a front blank. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Not in Good; not in Osborne. Bound as above; bands, joints, and extremities rubbed and gilt bright, narrow discoloration to endpapers from turn-ins. Provenance marks as above. Signature(?) cut from above the title on first page with paper subsequently repaired; some soiling to leaves and original wrappers, a non-fragile crease across a corner of the front wrapper, and a light pencil doodle on the blank side of one leaf outlining the image of the woman's dog. A silly story with still-brilliant color, well-preserved in a sturdy and modestly elegant binding. (39668)
“NO CRIES Are Sure of Such Renown, as Those ofFamous London Town”London cries for children. Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner (pr. by John Bouvier), 1810. 24mo (14 cm, 5.5"). Frontis. (incl. in pagination), 40 pp.; illus. 
Click the images for enlargements.half-page woodcut illustration for each of the 18 cries in the text, for a total of 20 cuts. Dr. R wrote of this work: “This edition of the London Cries resembles [the Cries] of Philadelphia and of New York in that each Cry is accompanied by a verse, and a long explanatory passage in prose . . . [A]nd although the book is intended for children, the propaganda introduced into . . . [it] is at times obviously intended for their parents.” 
• Rosenbach, Children's, 421; Welch 249.12; Shaw & Shoemaker 19892 & 20586. Publisher's light boards with salmon-colored paper covering. Browning as in all copies seen today. One leaf with short tear from lower margin, just touching text. Solid, and engaging from multiple perspectives. (38925)
Chapbook Play for Child ActorsLund, John; Joshua Booth, attrib. author; Thomas Bewick, illus. Ducks and green peas; or, the Newcastle rider. A farce in one act. Alnwick [England]: Pr. ... by W. Davison, 1827. 24mo (13.5 cm, 5.375"). [1–2], 3–34 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.chapbook play for children to perform was first published in Newcastle in 1777 and is sometimes ascribed to Joshua Booth. The title-page vignette and tailpiece arewood engravings by Bewick (originally commissioned for an edition of Burns' poetical works!). The large frontispiece is also a wood engraving.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Osborne Collection, p. 278; Opie R 76. On authorship, see: Nicoll, A History of English Drama, 1660-1900, III, p. 283. Publisher's dun wrappers; light soil. Very good. (38793)
Scholarly Highlights of Southern Germany, Plus Great Universities of Medieval Europe Mabillon, Jean; & Jean de Launoy. ... Iter Germanicum et Io. Launoii De scholis celebribus a Carolo M. et post Carolum M. in Occidente instauratis liber.... Hamburgi: Christiani Liebezeit, 1717. 8vo (17.5 cm, 6.9"). Frontis., [22], 103, [1], 507, [5] pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. An engraved frontispiece of Ptolemy done by Menzel opens the volume; the main title-page is printed in red and black, with an engraved allegorical vignette.
Provenance: Title-page verso with intaglio-printed armorial ex libris, printed directly on the leaf (not a bookplate that was glued on): “Ex Bibliotheca Friederici Roth-Scholtzii.” Friedrich Roth-Scholtz (1687–1736) was a prominent Nuremberg printer and publisher, as well as the author of Icones bibliopolarum et typographorum de republica litteraria and the Bibliotheca chemica; there are several reported examples of such bookplates in his books.
• Recent quarter calf and speckled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped author, title, place, date and gilt-ruled raised bands. Volume a little cocked. Endpapers soiled; some pages with mild offsetting, and text otherwise clean. (25490)
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“Al-fred Was a Kind Heart-ed Boy: He Ne-verMamma's gift, or pretty tales and pretty pictures for good children... Embellished with coloured engravings. London: Published by D. Carvalho, [ca. 1833–35?]. 12mo (17.5 cm, 7"). [8] ff.; illus.
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This is a copy of the third edition. Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate no copies of this edition and only one library worldwide reporting ownership of either the first or the second edition (the second, at Princeton).
• Publisher's printed dun-colored wrappers; excellent repairs to spine. Some finger soiling.Overall very good, with the coloring very neat and vivid. (38809)
Part of the Series of Texts Printed byDIDOT for theEducation of the DauphinMassillon, Jean-Baptiste. Petit careme. Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aine, 1789. Large 4to (31 cm, 12. 25"). [4] ff., 312 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.200 copies, a part of the series of texts printed for the education of the Dauphin.
Binding: Contemporary red morocco, spine gilt extra with green leather gilt label and elegant tooling to top and bottom, bands, and compartments; covers with similarly elegant, well-composed gilt borders and with board edges and turn-ins gilt in complementary fashion. All edges gilt, silk bookmarker present.
Provenance: Bookplate of Brian Stilwell.
• Brunet, Supplement, 981; Graesse, IV, 439. Bound as above in excellent condition with only the lightest shelfwear and a very short tear (not advancing) at head of spine; wide-margined leaves very clean with only the lightest sort of normal foxing. A treasurable copy. (40323)
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Early Students' Text on Greek & Latin CompositionMaturanzio, Francesco; Jakob Locher (ed.). ... De componendis versibus hexametro & pentametro opusculum aureum. Item Iacobi Sentini Ricinensis De quibusdam lyricis versibus Appendix. [colophon: Nurnbergae: Impressum ... Per Ioannem Stuchs, 1520. 4to (20.5 cm, 8"). [24] ff.
Click the images for enlargements.one of the most important writings of the Renaissance for the teaching of Greek and Latin composition. Its author, Francesco Maturanzio (Latin: Mataratius), who was born in 1443 in Perugia, studied in Vicenza, Crete, and Rhodes and in that period collected and edited numerous notable texts on Hellenistic authors. In 1486 he became professor of eloquence in Perugia, later moving to Vicenza and Venice, and in 1498 he returned to his native city; he is most famous for his chronicle of Perugia, which earned him high regard in his hometown, where he died in 1518. 
handsomely published for the use of his students. He has included a poem to two particular students, Peter Schletlin and Blasius Kotterle from Augsburg, as well as one to the reader and another by Konrad Gaillinus Leutkirch that is addressed to Maturanzio, dated 6th December, Ingolstadt. And he hasenlarged the text with the addition of a treatise by Jacobus Sentinus on the same subject. The title-page is printed in black and red with a fine four-part woodcut border; the text is in roman with one seven-line woodcut historiated initial and several three-line woodcut initials.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Apparently part of a relatively small edition, this text was also of a nature that would have led to hard, destructive use by students. Searches of NUC and WorldCat locateonly one U.S. library(Yale) reporting ownership.
• VD16 M1622. Modern marbled paper-covered boards. With marginalia as above; clean, and very nice. (40525)
The National Tournament inHealth Knighthood (1919)Minnesota Public Health Association (1914–52). Field of the cloth of gold. Book of instructions for conducting the Minnesota division of the national tournament in health knighthood, February 9th to May 24th, 1919. St. Paul: Printed by Minnesota Public Health Association, 1919. 8vo. 12 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Light discoloration and minor cockling. (35307)
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The More Things Change . . . ( . . . The More They Stay the Same). Report of the speeches delivered at the public meeting of the inhabitants of Edinburgh opposed to 
the government scheme of education, held in the Music Hall, on Wednesday evening the 31st March 1847. Edinburgh: Grant & Taylor, 1847. 8vo. 34 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • NSTC 2E4287. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper outer corner. (17041)
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“He Did Not Use His Apprentices Ill, Because He KnewMore, Hannah. The history of the two shoemakers. Philadelphia: Pr. by Jacob Meyer for Johnson & Warner, 1811. 24mo (14.6 cm, 5.75"). 107, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. The four sections of the title story open each with alarge, crisp woodcut illustration; the book closes with the poems “Dan and Jane: Or Faith and Works” and “The History of Richard.”
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 23422; Welch, American Children's Books, 886. Not in Rosenbach. Contemporary blue textured paper–covered boards, respined with blue paper shelfback; corners and edges rubbed, front outer corners showing faint tidelines. Pages, probablyblue to begin with, browned; final leaf with short tear from outer margin, not extending into text. A solid, unmarked copy. (38653)
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Daffy-Down-Dilly, Mary & Her Lamb, &c.[Mother Goose]. Queen of hearts and other rhymes. New York: Samuel Gabriel Sons & Co., [ca. 1910]. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). [12 (incl. wrappers)] pp.; col. illus.
Click the images for enlargements. 11 Kate Greenaway–inspired, color-printed scenes of children at play. This is no. 474 from this prolific publisher of children's works, with a logo that reads “To keep busy the little hands and little head.”
• Publisher's color-printed wrappers; lightly dust-soiled, corners and spine showing minor rubbing, front wrapper with one faint spot of staining and inked owner's name in upper outer corner. Pages very slightly age-toned with one small adhesion between first two leaves, otherwise clean. A pretty and now relatively uncommon book, overall showing impressively little wear for an item of this nature. (36527)
School Text 1791 — “Muretus” aMODEL
for StudentsMuret, Marc Antoine. Orationes, et epistolae...ad usum scolarum selectae.... Venetiis: Apud Josephum Orlandelli, 1791. 8vo (19 cm, 7.5"). 2 vols. I: xv, 359, [1] pp. II: 328 pp.
Rare. No copies traced via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC or RLIN.
• On Muretus, see: Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, II, 148–52. Contemporary half vellum over stencilled paper, spine with inked title; stained and paper torn with much chipping, especially on edges of covers. Ex-library with white-lettered call number on spines and, on title-pages, two different Catholic institutions’ rubber-stamps, plus the old inked ownership inscription of a Jesuit novitiate (Maryland). Ink scratches to frontispiece portrait (intentional?), and some inkstains in margins elsewhere. Lightly foxed. All edges speckled red. (11574)
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Bodoni's “Institution des Enfans” — A Fine Press Polyglot JuvenileMuret, Marc-Antoine; Nicolas Louis François de Neufchâteau, trans. Conseils d'un pere a son fils imités des vers que Muret a écrits en Latin pour l'usage de son neveu. Parme: Imprimé par Bodoni, 1801. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.85"). [4], 46, [2 (blank)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Brian Douglas Stilwell, front free endpaper with bookplate of Robert Wayne Stilwell.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only eight U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Providence Public, NYPL, UCLA, University of California-Irvine, HRC, Bridwell, Pierpont Morgan).
• Brooks 805; De Lama, II, 142; Giani 135 (p. 65). Later half green morocco and marbled paper–covered boards, spine lettered in gilt; minimal shelfwear to lower edges only. Front pastedown with pencilled reference annotations. A few small spots of staining; two pages with faint area of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item; pages crisp and clean overall. A marvelous polyglot, of much interest both textually and typographically, in a very attractive copy. (40184)
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