Chapbooks - Yorkshire
Complete series of chapbooks by J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co., Limited, Otley
£580
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
16 works in 1 volume, 8vo (16.2 x 9.4cm), 20th-century red crushed morocco by W. H. Smith and Son Limited (in the manner of their work for the Ashendene Press), each work 8 pp., with original colour-printed wrappers bound in (imprint on front wrapper ‘For the booksellers'), woodcut vignette to each page (often over-printed in colours), works comprise: The History of Cinderella; The History of Tom Thumb; Hare and Many Friends; Entertaining Views; Robinson Crusoe; Jack and the Giant Killer; Little Red Riding Hood; Scenes from Nature; Old Dame Trot; Mother Hubbard; Capitals of Europe; The House that Jack Built; Cock Robin and Jenny Wren; Old Man and his Ass; History of Peter Brown;
together with 2 other volumes of chapbooks, both 8vo, contemporary green cloth, printed spine-labels reading ‘Quaint Scottish Literature. Chap Books and Penny Histories. First [-Second] Series. Printed chiefly in Paisley and Glasgow’, edges untrimmed, containing approx. 80 items in total, contents include: The Art of Swimming rendered Easy … by Dr B. Franklin, Glasgow, for the bookseller, [no date]; M. Cottin, Elizabeth; or, the Exiles of Siberia, [no date], A Night Frae Hame, Oration on Teetotalization, and Parody on the Last Rose of Summer, Paisley: G. Caldwell and Son, 1842; The Iron Shroud; or, Italian Revenge, Paisley: Caldwell and Son, 1839; The Wife of Beith; with a Description of her Journey to Heaven, Falkirk: for the booksellers, [no date]; The Comical Sayings of Paddy from Cork, Glasgow: for the bookselers [sic], [no date]; A Collection of Popular Newcastle Songs … Part II, Newcastle: J. Marshall, 1824; The Irish Assassin, or the Misfortunes of the Family of O'Donnel. By Henry Vincent, Glasgow: for the booksellers, [no date]; Daniel O'Rourke's Wonderful Voyage to the Moon. Also, Master and Man; or, the Adventures of Billy MacDaniel, Glasgow: for the booksellers, [no date]; The Golden Dreamer; or Dreams Realised, containing the Interpretation of a Great Variety of Dreams, Glasgow: for the booksellers, [no date]; and similar (3)