Children's Books
The Book of Old English Songs and Ballads
Decorated green cloth cover with very slight wear to edges.Sporadic foxing mostly to endpapers. Fantastic illustrations.
The Boys of Badminster, a School Tale
Page edges lightly foxed. Bright decorative blue boards with light sunning to the spine.
The Child World
A fine clean copy. Boards only slightly marked, top and bottom of spine chipped and corners of boards bumped.
The Chimes: a Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year in
First ed, first impression; published 1845 (i.e. December 1844). Text clean but foxing on engraved title and frontispiece. Illustrations by Maclise, Doyle, Leech, Stanfield. Red cloth gilt cover has stains and marks. Top and bottom of spine torn, corners bumped. Gilt still bright, including edges. Owners’ names on front flyleaf and half-title page.
The Chimes: a Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year in
No date of publication. Text clean and whole, binding loose at back hinge. Presentation inscription in ink on front endpaper, deleted name on front fep. Boards chipped at edges, corners bumped and spine faded.
The Conquest Book for Girls
Previous owner’s name on fep. Title pg coloured in.
The English Struwwelpeter or Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures
Small tear to bottom of page 15, 16, 20 and 21, with slight browning to boards and pages. A very good copy of this classic work, circa. 1900
The Kate Greenaway Book
A collection of Greenaway’s illustration, verse and text. Bookplate to the fep.