19th Century Children's Books
including
£425
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 23 June 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
Lear, Edward. The Book of Nonsense and More Nonsense. Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, [n.d.], Oblong 4to, 2 copies, original green and brown pictorial cloth; Dean & Munday, publishers. The Infant's Toy Book of Pretty Tales. [n.d.], 31pp., 12mo, hand-coloured illustrations, original wrappers, somewhat soiled; Newman, A.K., publisher. The House that Jack Built. [n.d.], 8vo, hand-coloured illustrations, original wrappers bound upside down, rather soiled; Bannerman, Helen. The Story of Little Black Mingo. James Nisbet, [1901], second edition, 12mo, pen scribbles on blank pages between p.46 and 54, original pictorial cloth; Schmid, Rev. Christopher. Easter Eggs and Robin Red Breast. Edinburgh: T. Clark, 1839, 2 copies; The Little Lamb. Edinburgh: T. Clark, 1839; Krummacher, F.A. The Little Dove. Edinburgh: T. Clark, 1838, these 4 all original wrappers, g.e., wrappers lightly soiled; Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Heinemann, [1907], 8vo, plates by Arthur Rackham, binding slightly discoloured, slight crease to upper cover; Blackburn, Henry. Randolph Candecott. 1886, frontispiece, original pictorial cloth; Greenaway, Kate. Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. 8vo, original green pictorial boards; Kate Greenaway's Almanack for 1927. 12mo, inscription dated 1927 to endpaper, original yellow cloth-backed pictorial boards; Crane, Walter. A Floral Fantasy in an old English Garden. Harper and Brothers, 1899. 4to, original pictorial cloth, light dust-soiling internally, binding slightly soiled; Verne, Jules. P'tit Bonhomme. J. Hetzel et Cie. [n.d.], 4to, 458pp, 8pp. advertisements, original pictorial cloth, some spotting, slight wear (15)