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[email protected] Thursday 7 t h – Friday 8 t h – Saturday 9 t h February 2020 BOOTH #103 53 R D CALIFORNIA BOOK FAIR IN THE LIBRARY Q SAW A BUST OF THE QUEEN 1. [ABC]. ALPHABET HOUSE. [London]. The Religious Tract Society: 56, Paternoster Row, 65, St. Paul’s Churchyard, and 164, Piccadilly. [n.d., c. 1864]. £ 185 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [6], with six coloured plates by Kronheim & Co; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; stitched as issued in the original decorative wraps, lightly rubbed with some surface wear; a very good copy. Scarce first edition of this charming and attractively illustrated ABC, published as part of the Religious Tract Society’s ‘New Series Toy Books’. Each of Kronheim’s wonderful illustrations is accompanied on the opposite page by verse relating to each letter to help children learn their alphabet, and each text page surrounded by four Biblical quotes, to take care of their religious well-being. 1 ‘In the library Q saw a bust of the Queen: “Hats off!” said Q. “If,” said R, “we had seen Her real in her Robes, how pleased we had been!”’ OCLC records five copies in North America, at Toronto, Princeton, Boston, Kansas & Florida. FROM THE IJ 2. [AMSTERDAM]. MAASKAMP, Evert, publisher . [MAASKAMP DIORAMA VAN AMSTERDAM Engraved by P.H.L. van. der Meulen Amsterdam: Published by Evert Maaskamp] [1824- 1827]. £ 1,850 Aquatint strip panorama, segmented into 32 to form a myriorama, measuring approx.