R. CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOK No. 1
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1314508
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Very good condition.

Containing The Diverting History of John Gilpin; The House That Jack Built; An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog; The Babes in the Wood. Large square format 9.25 x 8.25". Orange cloth with dark orange and black pictorial front cover. Colour and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, light stain to base of spine and spine edge of front cover. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Endpapers lightly browned, some light foxing to contents.

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THE CHILDREN'S GARLAND OF VERSE
Written by Grace Rhys; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Sir Walter Scott; Edward Lear; et al. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 1504300
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1921. Slightly better than good condition.

A selection of work by well-known poets gathered by Grace Rhys. Pale grey cloth covers with blue, green and orange floral decorations. 8 colour illustrations. 296 pages. Spine is bumped and worn with small splits at either end. Vertical crease to centre, small nick to cloth near middle, also darkened. Wear to corners. Some small marks to covers including repair to tear in cloth on front cover. Front joint and a couple of hinges cracked, rear joint partially cracked. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Contents very good, all plates present.

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REALLY AND TRULY
Written by Ernest Ames. Illustrated by Mrs. Ernest Ames.
Stock no. 1314431
Published by Edward Arnold. circa 1899. Good condition.

Large, oblong format. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. Large, bold, easy-to-read text. This is a worn copy but has been professionally repaired both to the binding and some of the pages. Pages are lightly browned. Pastedowns has been replaced.

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WHEN I WAS BORN
Written by Edward Shirley. Illustrated by Beryl Reid.
Stock no. 1314430
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. circa 1920. Good condition.

The Jingle Books No. 7. Large format. Red cloth spine. 8 tipped-in colour plates. Binding has been professionally reinforced, new endpapers as well. Corners worn. Inscription in ink to half-title. Plates all present and in fine condition. Some light colouring to the b/w illustrations. There is light foxing and grubby fingermarks to the pages.

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THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN
Written by William Cowper. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1314423
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. Very good condition.

One of R. Caldecott's Picture Books. Small, square format. (5.5 x 4.5"). Pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. All edges gilt. Slight discolouration to rear cover. Browning and foxing to prelims and last few pages. Contents clean. Also comes with a letter from the publishers confirming that only 4 titles of these small size Caldecott books were printed.

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R. CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1314401
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. circa 1919. Very good condition.

Contains the Diverting History of John Gilpin; The House That Jack built; An Elegy on the Death Of A Mad Dog and The Babes In The Wood. Large, square format. Cream pictorial cloth. Colour illustrations. Sepia line drawings. Spine slightly bumped. Cream cloth is ever so slightly grubby. There is a tiny nick to top edge of rear cover. Rear free-endpaper is creased. Front joint is just starting to crack. There is some very light fingering to page margins. This is a nice, attractive copy.

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A PEEP INTO CAT-LAND
Written by Aimee De V. Dawson; et al. Illustrated by Constance E. Howell.
Stock no. 1314249
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1890. Very good condition.

Life sketches by Howell with descriptions by Dawson and others. Cloth spine, pale green pictorial boards. Floral decorated endpapers. 32 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine bumped and slightly rubbed. Corners worn. Covers have a few light scratch marks at edges. Endpapers lightly browned. Grubby fingermarks to page margins otherwise contents clean.

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TWELVE HAPPY MONTHS
Written by Marjorie E. Kirtley. Illustrated by Audrey Brunton.
Stock no. 1314142
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A charming little book of verse and prose about the months of the year. Written with the idea of teaching children to entertain themselves with their own drawings. Pictorial boards. Green/orange illustrations. 7.5 x 6". Spine bumped, small split at top. Endpapers partly browned/foxed. Small mark to verso of front endpaper. A few light fingermarks but contents generally clean. Dustwrapper is grubby and torn to front panel, score marks to rear panel (where book has been lent on to write).

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THE GIANT, THE DWARF AND THE WHISTLING BIRD
No author listed. Illustrated by V. Edgecombe Jenkins.
Stock no. 1809779
Published by The Featherstone Press Ltd.. Very good condition.

Small, slim format (5.5 x 4.25"). Pictorial paperwraps. Full-page colour illustrations. Contains a short story told in verse and other childrens verse. Covers lightly creased and scuffed. Staples rusty. Front hinge pulled but binding still tight. Generally a clean copy.

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R. CALDECOTT'S PICTURE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1313852
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. circa 1906. Almost very good condition.

Contains the Diverting History of John Gilpin; The House That Jack built; An Elegy on the Death Of A Mad Dog and The Babes In The Wood. Large, square format. Cream pictorial cloth. Colour illustrations. Sepia line drawings. Spine and corners bumped. Covers ever so slightly grubby. Some light fingering and foxing else contents clean.

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PUSSYCATS AND BOW-WOWS
No author listed. Illustrated by Gilbert Haldane Dodd.
Stock no. 1313583
Published by Dean & Son Ltd.. circa 1915. Good condition.

Untearable pages, mounted on cotton cloth. Large format. Green cloth with gilt title and pictorial onlay to front cover. Colour illustrations plus multi-colour text and text illustrations. Includes the rhyme "Three Little Kittens" and a story "The Dog's Party". Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly grubby. Endpapers replaced. Inscription in ink to title-page. Title-page and first text page separated at lower corner, some page creases and grubby marks to contents.

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FLUTES AND CYMBALS
Written by Leonard Clark. Illustrated by Shirley Hughes.
Stock no. 1313416
Published by The Bodley Head. 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Poetry for the young. Large format. Orange pictorial boards. 103 pages. B/w text illustrations. ISBN: 0370010906. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. A few foxspots to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed.

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