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Z is for Zebra — C is for CAT . . .
(“A” is for “ALPHABET”). The young child's A, B, C; or, first book. New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, No. 261, Pearl-Street; Samuel S. Wood & Co. No. 212, Market Street, Baltimore, [ca. 1820]. Square 8vo (10.5 cm, 4.13"). 16 pp.
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the first children's book ever published by Samuel Wood, whose work included “many thousands of children's religious, instructive, and nursery books.” (Rosenbach) The alphabet in this later edition is illustrated with 
variations on the fine wood engravings of birds, animals, and objects included in the first, except for the portrait of Xerxes, which seems to have been a constant throughout the many editions. Alexander Anderson, America's preeminent wood engraver, is thought to have supplied the illustrations to the original edition.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA”) at rear.
• Rosenbach, Children's, 596 ([c. 1820]); Shaw & Shoemaker 46904 ([1818?]). This ed. not in Welch. Publisher's printed paper wrappers with woodcuts, as above; wrappers foxed and leaves age-toned, not distressingly or weakening paper. Very little used, in good shape. (38483)
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Industry Leading to Virtuous Wealth(BOB Too Gets to Retire)! . . . The adventures of William Waters, and his ass Bob. Otley [England]: W. Walker, [1815]. Near miniature (9.7 cm, 3.75"). 16 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements.large hand-colored wood-engraved frontispiece, and seven small in-text, very
brightly hand-colored wood engravings. (There is an unrelated hand-colored woodcut of a barber on the outside of rear wrapper.)
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate only eight reported copies worldwide.
• Original wrappers, all edges gilt; evidence of having been bound in a sammelband; minor damage along spine area. First and last leaves pasted to wrappers. 
Very good and with very neat, strong coloring. (38792)
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CORNERSTONE for an AMERICAN SPORTING LIBRARY
(DOGS)!? “Gentleman of Philadelphia County, A” [i.e., Jesse Y. Kester]. The American shooter's manual, comprising such plain and simple rules, as are necessary to introduce the inexperienced into a full knowledge of 
all that relates to the dog, and the correct use of a gun; also a description of the game of this country. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827. 12mo (18.5 cm; 7.125"). [2] ff., pp. [ix]–249, [1] p., [1 (errata)] f., [3 (ads)] ff.; frontis., 2 plts.
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And when writing about dogs, in addition to notes on training and conditioning them, he offers recipes for common ailments and gun-shot wounds.
The plates are signed “F. Kearny,” an artist born in Perth Amboy, NJ, who studied drawing with Archibald and Alexander Robertson and engraving with Peter Maverick. From 1810 to his death in 1833 he practiced engraving in Philadelphia.
There are two states of gathering “U”: this copy has the typographical error “tibbon” with the stop-press correction to “ribbon” on p. 235.
The volume ends with advertisements for several sporting and fishing goods suppliers.
• Shoemaker 27838; Howes K108; Henderson, American Sporting Books, 6; Phillips, Sporting Books, 21; Streeter Sale 4084; Bennett, Practical Guide, 60–61. On Stauffer, American Engravers, I, 148–49. Publisher's sprinkled sheep with simple rope roll in blind on board edges, some abrasion to leather; round spine with gilt double rules forming “spine compartments,” black leather title label. The usual light and scattered foxing noted in all copies, nothing more. A very nice copy. (28553)
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A Man Learns Much from a HARE
“Herself.” Escapes, wanderings, and preservation of a hare. London: Pr. ... by J. & C. Evans, [1821–28?]. 24mo (13.3 cm, 5.25"). 35, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements.The hare finds safe haven at the end of her trials, here; this is ultimately asafe read!
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Publisher's deep blue printed and illustrated wrappers. Occasional small spottings in text but generally a near fine copy. (38788)
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TWO Classic Cat Tales — Here for “ONE Money”
The History of WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT, and the Story of PUSS IN BOOTS. Glasgow [Scotland]: Francis Orr & Sons, [c. 1840-1850] . 12mo (16.3 cm, 6"). 24 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.These renditions are unillustrated, but unusually extended and detailed.
• RLIN locates only the Minnesota copy. The top corners of two leaves are creased, else very good. Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). (38497)
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Victorian-Era PROVINCIAL PRINTING of a“Diverting” KidLit CHAPBOOKJoan, Jumping, The diverting history of, and her dog and cat. Otley [England]: Printed by W. Walker, at the Wharfdale Stanhope Press, [ca. 1850?]. Near miniature (10 cm, 4"). 15, [1 (blank) pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements.The reader meets Joan and her mischievous, talented, and at times anthropomorphic cat and dog.
The first and last pages (i.e., 1 and 16, both blank) are pasted to the inside of the wrappers.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
WorldCat locates only three libraries reporting ownership (Pierpont Morgan, Yale, Princeton) but we know of two others (Oxford, Toronto Public).
• Publisher's rust-colored wrappers; the original single stitch now perished and leaves loose. Very good. (38910)
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Armstrong Binding — Popular Illustrator — The HORSES Get the Last Word
MacGrath, Harold. The man on the box. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1904). 8vo (19.2 cm, 7.55"). Frontis., [12], 361, [1] pp.; 6 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. challenges of horsemanship (met both in riding and, as per title, driving). The author was a Syracuse-born writer of novels, short stories, and screenplays; the illustrator was “American Girl” artistHarrison Fisher, who provided a frontispiece and six plates.
This became, apparently, a Broadway play and then a film starring Charlie Chaplin's brother Syd Chaplin!
Binding: Signed binding by Margaret Armstrong: Publisher's blue-green cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in light green, cream, and black, with “MA” on front cover.
• Gullans & Espey, Checklist of Trade Bindings Designed by Margaret Armstrong,158. Binding as above, cocked; extremities and front panel mildly rubbed. Pages and plates clean. 
An entertaining novel in an attractive presentation. (35662)
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HORSES,
Up the THAMES in a Rowboat(“MONTMORENCY”)? Jerome, Jerome K. Three men in a boatto say nothing of the dog! Ipswich: Pr. by W.S. Cowell Ltd. for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1975. Oblong 8vo (23.6 cm, 9.3"). xv, [1], 174, [2] pp.; 12 col. plts., 2 double-p. col. plts.
Montmorency the dog along with them for a boating trip up the Thames that turns out rather more complicated than expected.Stella Gibbons (a great choice) provided the introduction, and John Griffiths produced the12 full-page and two double-spread color plates, as well as numerous black-and-white ink drawings. John Lewis set the horizontally formatted work (so done “because so few rivers in England are perpendicular”) in Modern Extended and ultra-bold Bodoni type; it was printed by W.S. Cowell Ltd. on Abbey Mills cream-colored eggshell paper, and snazzily bound in gaily striped scarlet, slate, and yellow linen.
signed by the artist at the colophon. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 487. Bound as above, with ochre linen shelfback and gilt-stamped title, in yellow paper–covered slipcase with gilt-stamped title; slipcase with a sad inch-long ding to one edge, joints starting in that area, and otherwise mainly scuffs and ordinary shelfwear; volume just reached by the blow and cover just showing that — otherwise clean and fresh — this slipcase suffered its wounds in doing its duty successfully! (36861)
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“The Uncle Tom's Cabin of the HORSE” —Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty: His grooms and companions. Boston: George T. Angell, [ca. 1895–1900]. 12mo. 245, [17] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. a nice steel engraving of a horse and a little girl in a stable, followed by explanations of the Band of Mercy, Angell's definitions of humane education and of what it means to overload a horse, the constitution of the AHES, and a page about how to put down a dog or cat mercifully — with a small diagram showing where in a dog's skull the bullet should go.
This copy bears a slip affixed to the front wrapper, marking it as sold at the office of the Maryland Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
• Publisher's printed paper wrappers, front wrapper with affixed Maryland SPCA slip; back wrapper lacking, front wrapper cracked along joint and with short tear from upper edge, corners chipped. Pages browned with short edge tears; title-page separated, with edges chipped, final leaf partially separated and also chipped (taking text, but with chip present). A very reasonable copy of an item commonly found when found at all, in this inexpensively produced paperback state, in fragile condition. (30133)
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Gay's Witty Creatures — Blake's Illustrations(TALKING ANIMALS). Gay, John; William Blake, illus. Fables by John Gay, with a life of the author, and embellished with a plate to each fable. London: Printed by Darton & Harvey, 1793. 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.75"). xvi, 256 pp.; 35 plts. (incl. frontis. and engr. t.-p.).
Click the images for enlargements.talking animals and foolish mortals, originally published in 1727 and touching on such contemporary subjects as tulip-mania, importunate coxcombs, and literary foes of Swift and Pope, here with an essay on the “Life of John Gay,” from Johnson's Lives of the English Poets. This offering contains35 plates, including a frontispiece of Gay's memorial and an engraved title-page featuring a mask before absolutely charming black and white illustrations for each of the 66 fables, most with two illustrations per plate. Gumuchian notes this offering's illustrations have been taken from the Stockdale edition of the same year and redone as ovals, meaningtwelve of the illustrations are based on William Blake's designs. Of the possible variants, in this text A2r ends “as he pro-“ and the catchword is “bably.”
a bonus engraving of “Dog and the Fox” etched from a drawing by Cooper of Ipswich that carries the further identifying line, “Published May 31st 1815 by J. Wheble of Warwick Square, London.”Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• ESTC T13872; Gumuchian 2682. 19th-century tree calf, rebacked with original spine laid on, this gilt extra with black leather title label; covers framed in a gilt foliate roll, board edges with gilt dot-and-dash roll, turn-ins with gilt pineapple roll, marbled endpapers. Binding rubbed and refurbished, top of spine pulled with loss exposing loose headband. Light to moderate age-toning, sometimes more deeply and variably toned around page edges; expectable foxing and offsetting from and around a few plates, two with short marginal tears; and otherwise, two small marginal chips, a stain or two, and one bent corner. Readership and provenance indicia and extra plate as above. Overall a pleasing book to peruse, and certainly one that ischock-full of beautiful images. (38728)
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PHILOSOPHY, 
Homelessness Human & CANINE . . .Trowbridge, J.T. The vagabonds. With illustrations by F.O.C. Darley. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1883. [20] pp.; 4 plts., illus. 
Click the images for enlargements.temperance tale of a homeless fiddler and his faithful dog; two promising lives blighted. Illustrated with plates and in-text engravings by Darley.
Binding: Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, front cover black- and gilt-stamped with vignette and decorative title, spine with gilt-stamped title. All page edges gilt.
• Binding showing minor wear over extremities. Front fly-leaf with gift inscription dated 1885; pages with light spots of foxing, otherwise clean. (5780)
“The CAT & the DOG Make OUR House THEIR HOME”
Walks with mamma, or, stories in words of one syllable. London: John Harris, 1824. Sq. 24mo (13.5 cm, 5.25"). 63, [1] pp.; 8 plts.
Click the images for enlargements.natural history appreciated as God's work, and with four of the five havingexcellent hand-colored wood engravings, some very dramatic and showing “exotic” places, people, or animals.
Searches of WorldCat locate only four North American libraries (URochester, IndianaU, Princeton, and Toronto Public) reporting ownership.
Evidence of use: Inside front cover enhanced with one rather good pencil sketch of a horse in traces, with blinders, and another smaller one, rather childish, of a galloping(?) horse with a whip-flourishing side-saddle rider aboard. Above the latter is pencilled, “Mary, Clara, Shirley.”
Provenance: Inscription “Mary Clara Elizabeth” with surname uncertain; later in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Moon, John Harris's Books for Youth, 963(1). Binding as above, cloth faded and with some stains; part of paper label chipped off and missing. Pages with some childish pencilling apart from the sketches described above, and with stray light brown stains. A few leaves just starting to loosen. A good+ copy. Sketches and plates, grand. (38915)
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Noah Webster & Alexander AndersonTeam UpC is for CAT eternally . . .Webster, Noah. The national pictorial primer. New York: George F. Cooledge & Bros., [1850s]. 12mo (19.2 cm, 7.5"). 48 pp.; illus.
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Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
• Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 351; Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 2159. Publisher's printed yellow paper–covered boards with rose-colored shelfback faded to tan on front cover. A nice copy. (38783)
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