1. [ANONYMOUS] - Robin Hood’s Garland. Being a Complete History of all the Notable and Merry Exploits performed by Him and his Men on many Occasions. To which is added a Preface giving a more full and particular Account of his Birth, &c. than any hitherto Published. . . . Adorned with Twenty-Seven neat and curious Cuts, adapted to the Subject of each Song. Printed and Sold in London, [1790?] 96pp., 12mo. Woodcut title-vignette and 26 illustrations; a few minor spots at beginning and end. Entirely untrimmed, stab-stitched in old marbled wrappers. $550.00 Possibly a piracy, and certainly a very rare edition of this popular song- book, with “A New Robin Hood’s Song. Sung by Mr. Beard” on the final page. The text derives from early printings such as Wynkyn de Worde’s Geste if Robyn Hode and who knows how many earlier manuscript and oral sources. All of the great characters are present in this “garland” - Little John, Will Stutely and his rescue from the clutches of the Sheriff of Nottingham, King Richard’s putting on “monk’s weeds” in order to meet Robin and his men - the only notable absence is Maid Marian, generally considered a later interpolation in the story. The famous actor and singer John Beard’s “New Robin Hood’s Song” premiered in 1751 and was several times reprinted in early John Marshall editions of Robin Hood’s Garland, suggesting one of Marshall’s editions as the source of this probable piracy. The present edition is Osborne Collection, p. 13, giving the date [1789] and that copy lacking the final leaf; ESTC locates two others, at the British Library and Harvard.

2. [ANONYMOUS] - Eastern Anecdotes of Exemplary Characters, with Sketches of the Chinese History. In One Volume. Inscribed to her Royal Highness the Duchess of York. . . . Designed for Youth. London: Printed by Samson Low, No. 7, Berwick-Street, Soho: and sold by Hurst, Paternoster-Row; Messrs. Carpenter and Co. No. 14, Old Bond-Street; and Peacock, at the Juvenile Library, No. 259, Oxford-Street, 1799. xvi, 176pp., sm. 8vo. With the half-title and a preliminary list of subscribers; a little old staining at the beginning. Modern sprinkled calf. $200.00 First and only edition, with a short history of the Chinese empire followed by biographical anecdotes, the last on the fourteenth-century Byzantine Cantacusenus. Subscribers’ lists may not be the best evidence from which to surmise the gender of an author, but from the fact that over four pages of subscribers reveal only six men, it is hard not to infer that female subscribers were turning out for one of their own.

HOGARTH FOR CHILDREN 3. [ANONYMOUS] - Juvenile Philosophy: containing Amusing and Instructive Discourses on Hogarth’s Prints of the Industrious and Idle Apprentices. . . . Designed to Enlarge the Understandings of Youth. London: Printed by Ruffy & Evans, Leadenhall Street, for Vernor and Hood, in the Poultry, 1801. [iv], 188pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece by Springsguth after Corbould (this mildly stained), corner off pp. 1-2 just touching a page number, another small corner flaw at pp. 133-134 neatly repaired without loss of paper or text. Original roan-backed marbled boards, unlettered (a paper label likely long since fallen off); extremities worn, but sound. $250.00 First edition, with the first and by far the longest of the discourses telling the story of Mrs. Wilson and her two sons, one of them exemplary, the other without “the least propensity to improve his mind.” One day Mrs. Wilson decides to present her sons with “a treat. . . of a new kind: - a set of prints, the Industrious and Idle Apprentices, by Hogarth.” All twelve plates are then described in detail, as the idle son becomes more and more contemplative. The happy result is not hard to guess. Osborne Collection, p. 716.

“THE ADVANTAGES OF READING” 4. [ANONYMOUS] - Sketches from Nature, intended for the Use of Young Persons. London: Printed for E. Newbery, 1801. iv, [ii], 130pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece (imprint at foot shaved); a little spotting. An unusually good survival in the original green vellum-backed marbled boards, with most of the paper spine label “Sketches from Nature Price 1s.” With a child’s ownership inscription “George Darcie Anstruther July 12th 1821,” and on the lower free endpaper “Disdain bad company/ Disdain bad company/ Disdain bad Boys/ Disdain bad company. . . .” $300.00 First edition of an uncommon late Newbery title, with chapters on insects and botany, and moral virtues. But by far the longest is “On Happiness; or, the Advantages of Reading,” in which two girls discuss the relative merits of prose and poetry, and specifically of Alexander Pope, William Hayley, Dr. Johnson, and others: “Johnson's language abounds with too many abstruse words, it is not so harmonious to the ear.” But the girls nevertheless devote several pages to discussing Johnson’s Rasselas, and conclude that its moral is “the human mind requires continual action.” Roscoe, John Newbery, J337.

5. [ANONYMOUS] - The Youth’s Monitor; Containing the following Moral and Instructive Tales: The Herdsman. The Contented Hermit. Ferdinand and Henry. The Sisters. London: Printed by J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane, for T. Hurst, Paternoster-Row, 1801. [ii], 141, [1]pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece, with a final page of publisher’s advertisements; first few leaves slightly toned. Original red roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt; corners worn, still attractive. $350.00 First and only edition. “The Herdsman” takes up most of the book, with the happy ending at page 117 involving a magnificent gift to four children of personalized story- and drawing-books, and four little desks to work on. OCLC records copies at Florida, Lilly, and UCLA; COPAC adds no more. UNRECORDED REISSUE 6. [ANONYMOUS] - The Twin Brothers; or, Virtue and Vice Contrasted. A Tale for Youth. London: Printed for Tegg and Castleman. . . B. Crosby and Co. [et al.], [circa 1805]. [iv], 125, [3]pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece with imprint “Pub. Dec. 1, 1801 by T. Hurst”, with a leaf of Hurst’s advertisements at end, and an initial leaf of series title (see below). Original green roan- backed marbled boards, printed paper label on spine “Twin Brothers. Minor’s Magazine. Vol. VII. Price 1s. 6d.”; spine ends worn. Front pastedown inscribed “Eliza Giffard Nerquis Flintshire 1807.” $250.00 An apparently unrecorded reissue of this anonymous novel, originally published by T. Hurst in 1802. The original engraved frontispiece is here preserved, but the printed title has a new woodcut vignette and is conjugate with a series title “The Minor’s Magazine, and Epitome of Knowledge. . . Volume VII.” The well-told story features brothers Bob and Jack; the latter runs off to sea and falls among evil companions. When the good brother lets Jack know he has a legacy, Jack replies “tip me the rhino, and steer off on what tack you like.” Jack spends his way through and resumes a life of crime, is caught, transported, and dies on board the prison ship. Bob marries and lives happily ever after. The Osborne collection has another Hurst publication, The Beautiful Page, or, Child of Romance, also reissued in the Minor’s Magazine series, but I can find no record of a complete set. The Giffard family built Nerquis Hall in the 1630s and it survives in private ownership.

7. [ANONYMOUS] - Joseph, Governor of Egypt. Translated from the French. In Five Parts. Doncaster: Printed and Sold by J. Sparrow, Opposite the Cross. And Sold by Messrs. F. & C. Rivington. . . Mozley, Gainsbro’; and all other Booksellers, 1807. [ii], 130pp., 18mo. Woodcut frontispiece; several spots and stains, especially at the beginning, and a few pencil squiggles. Original roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt-ruled but unlettered; rubbed. $75.00 Apparently the second edition, surely set from the text of the 1798 edition (the only other edition recorded), which was also printed in Doncaster and whose title declared the work “for the Use of Schools.” The Lilly Library has the only known copy of this 1798 edition (by a different printer); of this 1807 one OCLC records three copies, at British Library, Doncaster Central, and Leicester. COPAC adds no more.

8. [ANONYMOUS] - The Happy Shepherd: or, Rural Retirement; A Moral Tale. To which is added the History of a Coxcomical Fellow. Also the Disappointed Lovers; a Tale. Embellished with Elegant Cuts. Gainsborough: Printed by H. Mozley. Price Sixpence, 1809. 71, [1]pp., 18mo. Woodcut frontispiece and two illustrations; faint old stain at the blank lower corner of the frontispiece, but a nice fresh copy in old, possibly original boards which now are without what was likely some decorative paper covering; backstrip worn. $200.00 First and only edition, salutary and cautionary tales. Tommy the coxcomb is lazy at school, squanders his fortune, becomes a highwayman and is caught, sentenced, and transported, “destined for the coast of Africa, where (if he lives to arrive) he will be sold for a slave amongst the negroes.” Hugo, Bewick Collector, 3799, attributing the handsome woodcuts to John Bewick, not confirmed by Tattersfield in his definitive catalogue, John Bewick.

LACKING A TEXT LEAF 9. [ANONYMOUS] - Negro Labour; or, the Progress of Sugar; from the First Planting the Canes in the West Indies, to its Manufacture into Loaves in this Country. London: Published by Joseph Crisp. Holborn; And Sold by R. Dutton. . . J. Harris. . . J. Arliss. . . , 1809. [ii], 14 [of 16]pp., 16mo. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece and seven plates, the plates complete but lacking both the printed wrappers and the last leaf of text; some wear and creasing throughout. Essentially disbound in the remains of a volume containing two other defective children’s chapbooks. $500.00 Only edition of this rare and sometimes harrowingly- detailed chapbook, with references to the condition of the enslaved workers “before the horrid Slave Trade was abolished,” and with all the hand-colored plates including the frontispiece captioned: “Holing,” “Planting,” “Crop Time,” “Grinding the Canes,” “Potting,” “Clarification,” “Granulation,” and “Making the Loaves.” Moon, John Harris, 569. Three copies, Lilly, Princeton, and UCLA, in OCLC and COPAC; I have never seen another copy of this title for sale.

10. [ANONYMOUS] - Alfred the Great: in which is related his Conquests over the Danes; Entering the Danish Camp in Disguise; Separation from Ethelswitha; and his Death, after a Glorious Reign of Twenty Nine Years and Six Months. London: Printed and Published by John Arliss (Late Arliss and Huntsman), No. 87, Bartholomew Close, [1809]. [ii], 36pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, dated in the caption, woodcut title vignette with verses beneath (tiny hole catching one word in the fourth line); somewhat browned throughout. Modern marbled wrappers. $65.00 Apparently the only edition, the story of the “illustrious hero. . . a Briton born, but of Saxon race; being the fifth and favourite son of Ethelwolf.” Three copies in OCLC and COPAC: British Library, Bodleian, and Virginia. 11. [ANONYMOUS] - Thirty-Two Remarkable Places in Old England; for the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth: and Accompanied with several Copper-Plates. London: Printed by and for W. Darton, Jun. 58, Holborn-Hill, 1818. 36pp., 18mo. Eighteen engraved plates (see below), each captioned “Published July 29, 1818 by William Darton Junior”; “Price Sixpence” on the title- page inked out, some signs of use. Original red wrappers, worn but intact, paper label on upper cover “Thirty-Two Remarkable Places in Old England; with Eighteen Views. Price One Shilling.” Inside front cover inscribed “Sarah Mills from her Aunt Davis. Feby 19th 1824.” $300.00 First edition, the one-shilling issue with eighteen plates, this issue not noted by The Dartons until the 1820 edition. The engravings are detailed and attractive, covering the majority of the thirty-two towns described, with those left unillustrated for the most part the more- recently industrialized cities like Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester. The Dartons H1535(1), citing the sixpenny edition with nine plates; Osborne Collection, p. 191, not noting issue.

12. [ANONYMOUS] - The Sphinx; or, Agreeable Companion for a Winter’s Evening: Being an elegant Selection of Enigmas, Rebusses, Anagrams, Conundrums, Charades, Puzzles, &c. &c. Calculated to Divert the Mind, and Exercise the Ingenuity of the Curious. London: Nowill and Burch (successors to Champante and Whitrow), [circa 1818]. 144pp., 18mo. Fold-out woodcut frontispiece measuring 5½ x 12 inches, woodcut title vignette of the sphinx, with the solutions from pp. 131 (for the frontispiece) through 144. Some corners crinkled and a couple of very slight marginal tears, but an entirely untrimmed copy, stab-stitched as issued retaining an upper pink wrappers, backstrip and lower wrapper missing. $425.00

First edition, rare, and with an irresistible frontispiece, described by the Pforzheimer cataloguer at the New York Public Library as a “long-folding engraved frontispiece with 54 numbered rebuses,” also noting that “the first edition of The Sphinx was published by the firm Nowill & Burch, which went bankrupt in 1818; Joseph Nowill went bankrupt in 1820.” OCLC and COPAC record two locations for this first edition, at British Library and Cambridge, three of a second edition (British Library, San Francisco Public, and UCLA), and one of the third (New York Public).

NO COPY KNOWN 13. [ANONYMOUS] - Themis Thrifty; or, Sir Syllabus Saveall’s Grand-daughter: containing Eighteen Maxims of Economy. By the Author of “Scriptural Admonitions.” London: Printed for J. Hatchard and Son, 190, Opposite Albany, Piccadilly, 1819. 32, [4]pp., 18mo. With a publisher’s catalogue at end, completed on the outside of the lower wrapper. A fine copy in the original printed orange stiff wrappers, title and imprint on upper cover. $475.00 Apparently the only edition, an obvious spinoff of Elizabeth Graham’s highly successful Eighteen Maxims of Neatness and Order. By Theresa Tidy, first published in the same format by Hatchard in 1817 and reaching an eighteenth edition in 1826. Clearly this sequel by “Sir Syllabus Saveall” fell with a dull thud. Here is Maxim III: When you light a taper to seal a letter, do not let it burn longer than needful. Why squander away any thing uselessly? Recollect, “a penny saved is a penny got.” - - “And remember,” observed my father, “Pimlico chose his wife for economy in eating cheese.” Not found in OCLC or COPAC, and the sole reference I can find to this work is in the publisher’s advertisements to another work published by Hatchard in 1819, The Village Disputants; or, a Conversation on the Subject of the Present Times.

14. [ANONYMOUS] - Natural History of Domestic Animals; containing an account of their Habits and Instincts, and of the Services they render to Man. Dublin: Printed by C. Bentham, 19, Eustace- Street, 1820. 115, 117-178, [1]pp., 18mo. Woodcut frontispiece (“The Arab and Horse”) and illustrations, many full-page, “116” omitted in pagination, but complete; head of title clipped to remove an inscription. Original roan-backed boards; spine a bit chipped and the boards stained, but sound. $45.00 Apparently the only edition, at least under this title. The woodcuts vary, some very crude, others more detailed. The title notes that copies were available at 8d. in sheep and 6d. in “grain.”

CALICO AND LETTERPRESS PRINTERS 15. [ANONYMOUS] - The Cabinet of Useful Arts & Manufactures: Designed for the Perusal of Young Persons. Dublin: Printed by Christopher Bentham, 19 Eustace-street, 1820. “vii,” [i.e. viii], 9- 180pp., 18mo. Woodcut frontispiece and full-page illustrations including a Calico Printer, Paper Maker, and Letterpress Printer; jump in pagination from 108 to 117, but complete; the frontispiece sometime pasted to the upper cover. Untrimmed and partly unopened (the young reader seems to have opened only the parts with occupations of interest) in the original printed drab boards, the boards with the London imprint of A.K. Newman & Co. dated 1822; printed backstrip missing but sound on the cords. $350.00 Evidently the first edition; it was subsequently reprinted both in Dublin and London and, as is clear from this copy in its original state, the Dublin sheets had a London incarnation. There are quite full descriptions of such occupations as glass, linen, porcelain, leather, and cotton manufacture, “The Art of the Type Founder,” printing, bookbinding and, finally, brewing. OCLC locates five copies in the U.S.A., with COPAC locating four in the U.K.

16. [ANONYMOUS] - Scenes in Russia; describing the Manners, Customs, Diversions, Modes of Travelling, &c. of the Inhabitants of that Country: also, the Manners and Customs of the Cossacks and Kalmucks, and other Tartar Tribes. Illustrated with Fourteen Beautiful Engravings. London: Printed for E. Wallis, Skinner-Street, Snow-Hill, [circa 1820]. iv, 140pp., 18mo. Woodcut frontispiece and thirteen plates; occasional faint browning. Original roan-backed marbled boards; extremities worn and chafed. $225.00 Fourth edition, enlarged from the 1814 first edition of 117pp., the plates showing soldiers, “Baskir Cavalry,” Cossaks and Kalmuks, and different kinds of carriages and sledges, with detailed and engaging descriptions clearly intended for children. For the first edition see Osborne Collection, p. 189; all four editions are uncommon.

RIDDLES AND CONUNDRUMS 17. [ANONYMOUS] - The Temple of Fancy: or, Choice Riddles, Enigmas, Charades, and Conundrums. Calculated to Amuse the Minds of Youth. London: Whittingham and Arliss, Publishers, Paternoster-Row, [not after 1820]. 95, [1]pp., 18mo. Woodcut frontispiece, with small and very helpful woodcut illustrations providing clues throughout, and a short publishers’ list on the last page; a few light pencil notes on one of the “Solutions” pages. A well-read but sound copy in the original roan-backed marbled boards; head of spine slightly chipped. Two inscriptions by Clara Augusta Picksley at front, at two different ages, the younger-aged one mis-spelling her middle name and adding the date 1820. $300.00 One of several editions, the earlier of which were printed by John Arliss alone, probably a couple before 1810 - exact dating is elusive. This is a charming book, almost entirely in verse, with puzzles for children and grown-ups alike, and seeming to get harder as the book goes on. Even I solved the first, helped along by the tell-tale woodcut and the closing line “thrice I have made a Lord Mayor.” This is probably the edition located by OCLC at the Osborne Collection, Bristol University, and Yale; another with perhaps the same imprint is at Princeton for which they give the date 1825.

18. [ANONYMOUS] - The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. London: Printed by and for Hodgson and Co. No. 10, Newgate-Street, [circa 1822-1824]. 36pp., 18mo. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece with two vignettes (but see below), trimmed very close. Modern boards. $45.00 “A New Edition, with an Elegant Engraving.” The only Hodgson edition of this title I can find is a single copy of what may be this version at the British Library, with no mention of a plate. The plate here worries me, and I suspect it is part of what should be a folding frontispiece, of the like often used by Hodgson in other chapbooks of this period - hence the price, a tenth of what I would consider its value if a folding plate were complete.

19. [ANONYMOUS] - Variety; or, Stories for Children from the Age of Seven years to Twelve. Founded on Facts. Dedicated to the Author's little friends Kate and Fanny. London: J. Harris and Son, 1823. [iv], 127, [1]pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece and 11 plates, each with two vignettes; lower margins stained towards the end of the book. Original roan-backed printed boards; worn with a piece of leather missing at the spine head, but sound. $125.00 First edition. One of the stories features a boy who accompanies his father to his job in a coal mine, and saves his life when the mine collapses. Moon, John Harris, 943(1); Osborne Collection, p. 953; Gumuchian, Les Livres de l’Enfance, 5726

20. [ANONYMOUS] - A Visit to the Sea Side. London: Printed for R. Hunter, No. 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1823. [iv], 170, [6]pp., 18mo. With a six-page publisher’s catalogue “Books of Education” at end. Fine in the original green roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt. $200.00 First edition, by a young woman who signs the dedication to “My Dear Little Brothers and Sisters” as “Your truly affectionate friend and sister.” Pretty clearly based on fact, this is the account of a family sent to the Kentish coast for their health, and the family’s various adventures; one of the little girls is described as particularly adept at picking shrimp. A sequel was published in 1824. OCLC and COPAC record three copies: Bodleian, National Library of Scotland, and Florida. Google has digitized another, from the Biblioteca Nazionale di Torino.

21. [ANONYMOUS] - Odd Moments; or Time Beguiled. London: For Thomas Boys, Ludgate Hill, 1825. [vi], 290pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece by S. Freeman after H. Corbould (this slightly spotted), bound without the half-title, title-page with contemporary ownership inscription “Jane Pryse, Gogerddan” (see below). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine fully gilt; rather faded but still attractive, with ticket “Bound by J. Cox Aberystwyth.” $300.00 First edition of these stories for older girls, clearly by a woman; the titles are “The Sisters,” “Louisa,” “Agatha, or, Contrition,” and “More Truth than Fiction,” the last of which was liked best by The Lady’s Monthly Museum. OCLC records three copies in North America: Florida, Hamilton College, and UCLA; COPAC adds four in Great Britain: Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, and St. Andrews. The Pryse family of Cardiganshire, Wales owned the Gogerddan estate from at least the fifteenth century; the main house, Plas Gogerddan, was financed by lead mines in the seventeenth century and still stands as a Grade II listed building.

22. [ANONYMOUS] - The Remarkable Adventures of an Old Woman and her Pig. An Ancient Tale in a Modern Dress. London: John Harris, [circa 1827]. [ii], 16, [2]pp., 8vo. Printed on one side of each leaf only, with fourteen half-page hand-colored woodcut illustrations, the last leaf with 55 titles from “Harris’s Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction.” The printed title is clipped at head to remove an ownership inscription, and the publisher’s wrappers are missing. $75.00 First edition of this version, distinguishable by the colophon “Printed by S. and R. Bentley” on the verso of the title-page. Moon, John Harris, 708(1).

23. [ANONYMOUS] - Pug’s Tour through Europe; or, The Travell’d Monkey: containing his Wonderful Adventures in the Principal Capitals of the Greatest Empires, Kingdoms, and States. Written by Himself. London: John Harris, corner of St. Paul’s Church-Yard, [circa 1827]. 17 leaves, 12mo, consisting of the printed title and sixteen leaves printed on one side, each with a hand-colored illustration and rhymed text; without the terminal publisher’s catalogue, a few spots and stains, outer margins cut close. Bound with fragments of four other hand-colored children’s books in similar format in contemporary patterned cloth, unlettered. $100.00 Second edition, not so stated, of Pug’s Tour, an engaging Harris travelogue. The four fragments, all with half-page hand-colored illustrations, are significantly imperfect, with only one of the title-pages present, i.e. The Flower-Basket. . . Original Nursery Rhymes and Tales, London A.K. Newman, but this lacks at least ten leaves. Another, The Monkey’s Frolic, is nearly complete, but has no title and half of one leaf is torn away. For Pug’s Tour see Moon, John Harris, 690(2). 24. [ANONYMOUS] - Midsummer Holidays at Briar’s Hall; or, Summer Mornings Improved. London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1828. viii, 269, [3]pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece and five plates, each with two vignettes, the last showing a steam-engine, with a terminal leaf of publisher’s advertisements; plates spotted, a couple of marginal tears, and some gatherings a bit sprung but secure. Original roan-backed printed boards, spine gilt; rubbed and worn, but the binding sound. $100.00 First edition, a series of “short, detached pieces,” many in dialogue format. “Are not,” the author asks, “many of the works written for youth too exciting - too much in the style of novels; beginning, indeed, with the history of children, but often ending in romance?” Both the book’s format and the style of its narrative, which intermixes fact and fiction, are reminiscent of the authoress of The Picture Gallery and Fire-Side Stories, but the preface uses “we” instead of “she” and one imagines the publishers would have named the authoress’s previous books on the title had she been the same. Osborne Collection, pp. 912-13.

25. [ANONYMOUS] - The History of Jack the Giant-Killer. York: Printed & Sold by C. Croshaw, 36, Pavement, [circa 1830]. 23, [1]pp., 24mo (3¾ x 2½ inches). Woodcut frontispiece and nine illustrations, the last one to an additional story “The Pedlar and his Ass,” first and last leaves pasted to the wrappers as issued. Original printed blue wrappers, upper cover with title (headed, as is the title-page, “Croshaw’s Edition”) and a repeat of a woodcut, further woodcuts on the lower cover; backstrip showing signs of leather from a previous binding. $275.00 Apparently the only Croshaw edition, a penny chapbook. The woodcuts are crude but unusually good. All Croshaw chapbooks are rare, with OCLC and COPAC locating this one only at the Bodleian Library, whose catalogue suggests a date between 1814 and 1840.

26. [ANONYMOUS] - The History of Little Solomon. Embellished with Neat Engravings. London: Dean and Munday, Threadneedle-Street, and A.K. Newman & Co. Leadenhall-Street, [circa 1830]. 24pp., 12mo. Woodcut frontispiece, title vignette, and nine illustrations. A very nice copy in the original purple wrappers, vignettes on both covers with title, price, and “No. 12” on the upper, and advertisements for more of this threepenny series on the lower. $150.00 Apparently the only edition, a threepenny chapbook. Little Solomon was so named because when christened at a month old he “had not once laughed.” He grew up thoughtful and kind to animals, and his school- fellows so admired him that he adjudicated their quarrels. One thing led to another, and by his kindness and diligence he ended up heir to a wealthy bachelor’s estate. OCLC records copies at Boston College and McGill; none on COPAC.

27. [ANONYMOUS] - More Tales for Idle Hours. London: John Harris, 1831. [iv], 159, [1]pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece of “The Deserter,” this dated Dec. 1830. A few tiny marks and spots, but an unusually nice copy in the original red roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt-titled. $225.00 First edition, likely a sequel to Idle Hours Employed, which Harris published in 1828 and reprinted this same year, 1831. Among the stories here are, in addition to “The Deserter,” “Female Friends,” “The East Indian,” and “The Fairy’s Gift Revoked.” Moon, John Harris, 558. 28. [ANONYMOUS]. The Two Cousins, and other Tales. By the Author of “Poetic Sketches.” London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. [iv], 147, [1]pp., 16mo. Woodcut frontispiece and three plates, with the half-title; a few spots, plate opposite p. 37 sometime detached and reinserted. Original vertically-grained purple cloth, upper cover gilt-titled. $200.00 First and apparently only edition, almost certainly by a woman, and very rare. The central narrative is of two cousins, both girls, and the various misfortunes they overcome, interspersed with stories which include one about a shepherd “in humble life,” and one, “Alfred Percy” about the ward of a gentleman nearly killed when the gentleman’s son smashes his head with a cricket bat, as is shown in one of the woodcuts. OCLC records a single copy, at the Free Library of Philadelphia; COPAC adds one more, at the Victoria and Albert. The same author’s Original Poetic Sketches for Young Persons was published by the Darton firm earlier in the decade.

29. [ANONYMOUS] - Anecdotes of Kings, Selected from History; or Gertrude’s Stories for Children. London: John Harris, 1837. viii, 207, [1]pp., 16mo. Wood-engraved frontispiece and eight plates, with the half-title; one plate reinserted and consequently a little dusty at the outer edge. Still a nice copy in the original gilt-titled purple cloth; slightly faded. $50.00 First edition, featuring various early English kings, and also Alexander and Peter the Great. Moon, John Harris, 20.

30. [ANONYMOUS] - Traditions and Legends of the Elf, the Fairy, and the Gnome. With Illustrations, from Original Drawings. London: T. Richardson, Printer, [circa 1840]. [viii], 312pp., 24mo (4½ x 3 inches). Engraved frontispiece by D. Buckle after J. Marchant, additional engraved title with vignette and imprint of Charles Daly, and eight woodcut plates. Contemporary green roan gilt; extremities a little rubbed. Two inscriptions: on the frontispiece “From Grandmama,” and the engraved title “Daisy Garrett May 1871.” $250.00 Likely the first edition (see below), with appropriate illustrations to tales including “Black Spider,” “Elfin Piper,” “Spectre Barber,” “The Rosicrucian,” “Unburied Legs,” and “Water Sprite.” This seems to be the only printing, issued with the engraved title bearing the imprint of Charles Daly, London, but known copies show two different printed title imprints: Milner in Halifax, and Richardson in London. The present issue has libraries offering dates ranging from circa 1828 to 1890, but the Halifax issue is apparently dated 1844 which seems a likely “circa” for the present one as well, although Harvard’s “circa 1835” is also perfectly reasonable.

31. [ANONYMOUS] - Simple Simon. London: C. Paul, Printer and Publisher, 18, Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials, [circa 1840]. [12]pp., 12mo. Woodcut title vignette within an elaborate border headed “Paul’s Penny Library,” each page of the rhyme with a half-page woodcut, pp. [10]-[12] containing a rhymed alphabet with a small woodcut for each letter. Stab-stitched. $125.00 An apparently unrecorded printing of the classic rhyme, perhaps going as far back as Elizabethan times. UCLA has an eight-page, hand-colored edition published by Paul with yellow wrappers. I can’t rule out the possibility that this one also originally had wrappers, but it looks complete without them. The only other 12-page publication by Paul I can locate is the Universal Riddle Book in the Opie collection.

UNRECORDED JAMES BURNS HALFPENNY CHAPBOOKS 32. [ANONYMOUS] - The Bear in the School Room [and 23 other halfpenny chapbooks for children - see below]. London: James Burns, Portman Street, Portman Square, [circa 1840-1843]. 24 individual halfpenny chapbooks (see below for titles ), each 8pp., 32mo (4¼ x 2¾ inches), with a larger woodcut illustration on the first page of text, which has a drop-head title, and one or two smaller vignettes in the text, some chapbooks with colophon “R. Clay, Printer, Bread-street-hill.” All but the first in the original printed colored wrappers (the first has its original lower wrapper restuck at the front of the book), each with title as given below, imprint, and a woodcut vignette within an ornamental border along with “Price One Halfpenny,” the series number in square brackets below on the left, and “S. 2.” on the right; the lower wrappers all have a single large woodcut illustration. Bound together in the original red cloth; worn and essentially disbound with both covers detached, but the original gilt spine present and lettered “Short Stories &c **” (the two asterisks presumably for “Series 2.”). Ownership inscription “Fanny Talbot June 26th 1847 from Mamma” on the front pastedown (upper free glazed yellow endpaper missing). $1,000.00 Apparently the only editions of these 24 chapbooks, all but one of them seeming to have been entirely lost. I have also checked lists of individual titles in all the James Burns collective publications I can find, without success. Only one title here is recorded, Little Mary (here no. 11), which is located in a single copy at the British Library. Their catalogue note suggests the date 1840, notes blue wrappers (the present copy’s are cream-colored), but does not mention a series number. The titles here are taken from the wrappers, in order from 1-24 (although the first does not have its wrapper with series number): 1) Cold and Warm (from the drop-head title on p. 1). 2) Saturday Holiday. 3) Baby’s Death. 4) The Month. 5) Jane and Betsy. 6) First Sight of the Country. 7) Alice Lee. 8) Forgive and Forget. 9) The Night. 10) The Burnt Child. 11) Little Mary. 12) The Day. 13) Ticket for the Feast. 14) The School Feast. 15) The Year. 16) Our Daily Walk. 17) The Parrot. 18) My Tame Birds. 19) The Shower. 20) The Week. 21) Stories about Geese. 22) The Live Doll. 23) The Bear in the School Room. 24) Winter Evening. Who wrote these? The question is tantalizing because when these were printed in the early 1840s Burns’s stable of writers included two very interesting women, Anna Lefroy (Jane Austen’s favorite niece) and Harriett Mozley. For a discussion of James Burns’s significance as a children’s publisher in the early 1840s, see Brian Alderson’s pioneering, “Some Notes on James Burns as a Publisher of Children’s Books,” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library, Vol. 76, No. 3 (1994) pp. 103-125. Alderson notes a series of twopenny chapbooks from this period, but these halfpenny ones seem to have eluded him - and everyone else.

33. [ANONYMOUS] - The Progress of Industry. [No place or printer, but probably London, circa 1840]. 16pp., 8vo. Eight leaves printed on one side only, each with an attractive half- page, hand-colored woodcut illustration with eight lines of verse below and a subject heading (e.g. “Marriage,” “Mirth,” “Family”) at the top of each page. Issued without a title-leaf in the original printed wrappers (somewhat rubbed and darkened, but sound), the upper cover titled as above with a woodcut and “Price Sixpence,” the lower cover with a list of 29 “Juvenile Books at Sixpence Each, Coloured.” The inside upper cover has two inscriptions, the earlier is “Hannah Wood Darlington the gift of her Affectionate Sister Sarah. August 1841.” $350.00 Apparently the only edition. OCLC and COPAC locate three copies, at the British Library, Columbia, and Florida. The last has an inscription dated 1842, the two others suggest [1820?].

34. [ANONYMOUS] - The House that Jack Built. [Cover imprint] London: Published by J.L. Marks, 91 Long Lane, Smithfield, [circa 1845]. 8pp., 8vo, printed on one side of each of the eight leaves, each with a half-page woodcut illustration with simple publisher’s hand-coloring, the first and last leaves pasted to the wrappers as issued. Original drab printed and illustrated wrappers, the lower wrapper with publisher’s advertisements; tear across the upper wrapper now near- invisibly repaired. Neat ownership inscription “Mary J. Kelley 1848” on p. 2. $150.00 An attractive version of this much-loved nursery rhyme, with simple hand-colored woodcuts. The text may first have appeared in Nurse Truelove’s New-Year’s Gift, published by Newbery in 1755, and many separate editions followed. Marks’s business was at this address from the early 1830s through 1855. UNRECORDED “REWARD” CHAPBOOKS 35. ALTHANS, HENRY, et al. The African Youth, or Honest Josiah. London: Printed by H. Teape and Son, 1830. 16pp., 32mo (3¾ x 1½ inches). Title vignette of the African youth under a palm tree, reading; the price (“One Penny”) partly cropped at foot. Bound with approximately 25 similar chapbooks, some unrecorded, several in their original wrappers (as noted below), in half maroon roan, spine with repeated gilt ornaments and the upper cover with a gilt label “David Tolliday 1840”; binding quite rubbed but entirely sound. $950.00 Fourth edition of The African Youth (the image shadow at upper right is an unavoidable finger). I can find no record of a surviving copy of any edition of this work in the usual records, and a Google search turns up only a single reference, from publisher’s advertisements in a copy of another work by Althans, who actively published in the 1830s. Some of the other chapbooks in the volume are the often-found Religious Tract Society publications; the unusual ones are as follows (citations to locations, where given, are an aggregate of findings in OCLC and COPAC): (1) Hurn, William. A Scriptural Guide to the Knowledge of the Gospel, in the form of a Catechism. Leicester: J.F. Winks [1830s]. 32pp. One copy: Victoria and Albert Museum. (2) [Tonna], Charlotte Elizabeth. The Glow-Worm. Dublin: Religious Tract and Book Society for Ireland, 1835. 16pp., with woodcut illustrations. Fourth edition. One copy (Trinity Dublin), with earlier editions similarly rare. (3) Rose; or Comfort in Affliction. Dublin: J. and M. Porteous, 1830. 16pp. Sixth edition. No edition recorded, and no reference to the title found via Google. (4) Pity the Negro; or, An Address to Children on the subject of Slavery. London: Printed for Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, 1831. 16pp. Woodcut title vignette. Eighth edition, first published around 1825, with all editions rare. (5) [Tonna], Charlotte Elizabeth. The Newfoundland Fishermen: a True Story. London: Religious Tract Society [circa 1835]. 16pp. Woodcut vignettes. (6) The Little Tract Distributors. London: Religious Tract Society [circa 1835]. 30, [2]pp., with the final blank leaf. (7) Sarah, the Little Bathing-Girl. London: Houlston and Son, 1831. 31, [1]pp. Woodcut frontispiece and illustrations (a couple of corners crinkled). One copy at the Bodleian, and a second edition at the University of Otago. (8) A Dialogue between a Father and his Son on the Flood. Bocking: Printed by J. F. Shearcroft, 1832. 15, [1]pp. Woodcut frontispiece and one illustration. Original printed blue wrappers. Unrecorded. (9) The Affectionate Friend. A Sunday-School Reward. Bocking: Printed by J. F. Shearcroft, 1832. 15, [1]pp. Woodcut frontispiece and one illustration. Original printed yellow wrappers. Unrecorded. (10) The Excellence of Youthful Piety. A Sunday-School Reward. Bocking: Printed by J. F. Shearcroft, 1837. 15, [1]pp. Woodcut frontispiece and illustrations. Original printed pink wrappers. Unrecorded. (11) True Piety, the One Thing Needful. A Sunday-School Reward. Bocking: Printed by J. F. Shearcroft, 1827. 15, [1]pp. Woodcut frontispiece and one illustration. Original printed grey wrappers. One copy of an 1824 edition at the Free Library of Philadelphia. 36. [AUTHORESS OF “THE THREE BIRTH-DAYS”]. Stories about Mortimer. A Present for Little Boys and Girls of Four Years Old. By the Authoress of “The Three Birth-Days,” “Baby Tales, &c.” London: E. Wallis, 42, Skinner Street, [circa 1825]. xii, 147, [1]pp., 16mo. Hand- colored woodcut frontispiece and seven full-page illustrations, included in the pagination; corner off pp. 61-62, well clear of the illustration, some browning and staining, but the hand-coloring bright and attractive throughout. Original cloth, worn with the paper title-label on the upper cover chipped but legible. $225.00 Only edition of these engaging stories for young children, intended to be read after they have finished the same author’s Baby Tales. The first chapter assures readers that Mortimer is a real person, and “that there is not a word in this book which is not strictly true.” One of the stories is titled “The Poor Negroes” and repeats the canard that the climate of countries that grow rice and sugar “would kill white people, if they worked in the fields all day.” OCLC and COPAC record six copies: British Library, Bodleian, Cambridge, Victoria and Albert, Connecticut and Florida.

37. BELCH, W[ILLIAM], publisher. [London Cries]. [Caption:] Printed & Sold by W. Belch, 258 High St. Borough, London [circa 1820]. Three hand-colored engravings by A. Courcell, each about 8 x 6 inches, sometime mounted in and afterwards removed from a scrap album, with variable margins and signs of use, the cries and series numbers as below. $100.00 I cannot trace this series, although the odd single plate turns up here and there, usually dated circa 1820. All of William Belch’s publications are extremely rare, and if this one was published as a collection it seems to have vanished. Perhaps it was called “City Scenes” to correspond with a surviving Belch sequence called “Rural Scenes.” The prints here are: “Old Chairs to Mend, Chairs to mend.”, no. 3; “Come buy my fine Flowers, all blooming and fresh.”, no. 6; and “Fine ripe Cherries, a groat a pound.”, no. 7

“FAMILIAR DIALOGUES” 38. BELLAMY, DANIEL. Youth’s Scripture-Remembrancer: or Select Sacred Stories, by way of Familiar Dialogues, in Latin and English: with a short Application to each Story. The Original by S. Castalio: to which are Added, Some Explanatory Remarks, (never before publish’d) in order to enlarge the Ideas of Children, and render their Earliest Studies, not only instructive, but entertaining. By D. Bellamy, of St. John’s- College, in Oxford. London: Printed for, and Sold by J. Robinson, at the Golden Lion in Ludgate- Street; H. Chapelle, at Sir Isaac Newton’s Head, in Grosvenor-Street; and J. Leake, Printer, in Angel-Street, St. Martins Le Grand, 1743. [viii], viii, 192pp., 8vo. Fine allegorical engraved frontispiece by G. Bickham: “Education, Children, like tender Oziers, take the Bow,/ And, as they first are fashion’d, always grow.” Neatly repaired flaw in the blank outer margin of pp. 113-114 without loss of paper or text, a couple of minor stains at the beginning, otherwise an attractive copy in the original sheep-backed marbled boards, paper label on spine. $800.00 First edition, substantially enlarged by Daniel Bellamy from the first book of Dialogi Sacri by Sebastian Castellion (or Chateillon, 1515-1563). The dialogues include characters like Moses and Lot’s wife and are given parallel texts in Latin and English, with lively and extensive remarks by Bellamy. Two states of the text are recorded, with Duke University reporting one of 164pp. with the title-page calling for copies to be sold bound at 1s.6d. Of this longer version ESTC locates four copies in the United Kingdom, and one at the University of Illinois.

39. [BIBLE] - The Bible in Miniature; or, A Concise History of the Old and New Testaments. Derby: Printed by H. Mozley, Price Sixpence, 1821. [3]-190pp., 48mo (1¾ x 1½ inches). Without the first and last leaves, presumably blank, full-page woodcut illustrations at pp. 21, 39, 51, 65, 117, 133, and 161, with the crucifixion illustration at p. 161 repeated as an inserted plate at p. 170; a few minor creases and other signs of use. Attractively bound in contemporary red sheep, gilt, likely a publisher’s deluxe binding. $300.00 One of a number of editions of Mozley’s miniature Bible, beginning in the 1790s. Reported formats and number of illustrations vary, and the crucifixion plate here at p. 170 seems in other editions to have been inserted as a frontispiece. All editions are rare; as far as I can tell the only recorded copy of this one is in the Opie collection at the Bodleian.

40. [BIBLE] - The History of Joseph and his Brethren. London: Pubd. Novr. 5. 1822 by Hodgson & Co. 10. Newgate St., 1822. Engraved title and 12 leaves printed on one side, each with a half-page hand- colored engraved illustration and four lines of verse below, the blank sides of the title and following leaf pasted together; some soiling and signs of use throughout. Original stiff wrappers, hand- colored engraved label “Hodgson’s The History of Joseph & his Brethren” on upper cover with a further engraved illustration (this label with about a one-inch square piece torn from the outer edge), wrappers soiled and early rebacked with patterned cloth. $275.00 Apparently the only edition of this handsomely-illustrated Bible story for children, reduced to simple verse but with each illustration giving a citation to chapter and verse in the Book of Genesis. Osborne Collection, p. 760, noting that “Wynkyn de Worde published the first printed metrical version which became popular in chapbooks from the middle of the eighteenth century.” OCLC and COPAC locate no further copies. 41. [BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI] - The Story of Griselda. A Tale for the Nursery. With Three Copperplates. London: Printed for B. Tabart, at the Juvenile and School Library, 157, New Bond- Street, and to be had of all Booksellers. Price Sixpence, 1809. 35, [1]pp., 24mo (4½ x 3 inches). Hand-colored engraved frontispiece and two plates, all dated 1804, first and last leaves pasted to the wrappers as issued. Original printed yellow wrappers (“The History of Griselda: with Coloured Plates”), publisher’s advertisements on lower cover; the whole cropped (but when?) with loss of some headlines and to the foot of the advertisements on the upper wrapper. Still an attractive copy and an unusual survivor in the original wrappers. $275.00 “A New Edition,” in fact the second and last Tabart edition, following that of 1804, and surely a terrifying tale to be read in the nursery, with Griselda’s remorseless husband taking away her two young children - Griselda thinks to be killed - only to restore them after she proves her constant obedience to her husband’s wishes. Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century tale was retold by Petrarch and then Chaucer, and many times and many ways after. Moon, Benjamin Tabart, 161(2); two copies of this edition (Cornell and Victoria and Albert) in OCLC and COPAC; COPAC does not locate a copy of the 1804 edition.

42. [BRIGHTLAND, JOHN]. A Grammar of the English Tongue, with the Arts of Logick, Rhetorick, Poetry, &c. Illustrated with Useful Notes. Giving the Grounds and Reason of Grammar in General. The whole making a compleat System of an English Education. For the Use of the Schools of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, D. Brown, J. Wyatt, W. Taylor, J. Osborn, W. Mears, M. Boddington, C. Rivington, F. Clay, T. Corbet, J. Brotherton, 1721. [xviii], 276pp., 12mo. With an initial leaf “The Approbation of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq;” a folding engraved plate of alphabets opposite p. 1, and an engraved illustration on p. 269; a few mostly marginal stains at the beginning. Contemporary calf; neatly rebacked. $250.00 “The Fourth Edition, Corrected”, variously attributed to John Brightland, Sir Richard Steele, and Charles Gildon; the dedication is signed “The Authors.” The first edition appeared in 1711 and the work was reprinted as late as 1782. Alston, Bibliography of the English Language, I, 46. 43. [BRUCE, JOHN]. The Adventures of Paul Pry. Brighton: Drawn, Engraved, Printed & Published by I. Bruce, [circa 1828]. 24pp., 12mo. Twelve large engraved illustrations, each printed on one side of a leaf, the first with a childish attempt at hand-coloring nowhere else repeated, otherwise an excellent copy in the original purple wrappers (a bit faded), upper cover with engraved illustration and title as transcribed above. $250.00 Only edition, this copy belying the statement “Price one Shilg. Colored” on the upper cover. John Poole’s play Paul Pry opened in London in 1825 and proved enormously popular, with the character’s name becoming synonymous with meddlesome. This Brighton publication is clearly drawn with the actor John Liston, who played the original Paul Pry, in mind, and the simple quatrains below the illustrations were doubtless aimed at children and grown-ups alike. The circa 1828 date is taken from an inscription in the copy at UCLA. Nine copies in OCLC and COPAC.

44. BURDEN, Mrs. Short Tales in Short Words: about The Lame Boy, The Sea Shore; - The Cross Boy; and, The Stray Child. Embellished with Seven Elegant Coloured Engravings. London: Thomas Dean & Co., Threadneedle-Street, [circa 1854]. 59, [5]pp., 16mo. Hand-colored wood-engraved frontispiece and six full-page illustrations after T.H. Jones, with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at end. Nice copy in the original blind-embossed purple cloth, upper cover gilt-titled; inner hinges strained, but sound. $90.00

Fourth edition, with no first or second edition located. Osborne Collection, p. 973, describes the sixth edition, dated “circa 1855.” These are engaging stories for very young children; such books have a low survival rate. The Bodleian has a copy of this fourth edition, and there are no more than a couple of copies on both sides of the Atlantic for earlier and later ones, with nothing earlier than the third located. The author’s first name still eludes bibliographers.

45. [CAMBON, MARIA GEERTRUIDA, Madame de]. The History of Little Grandison. By M. Berquin, Author of the Children’s Friend. London: Printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, 1791. [iv],175,[1]pp., 18mo. Woodcut frontispiece, and a page- and-a-half of publisher’s advertisements at end. Original floral boards; expertly restored with the upper end of the backstrip replaced. $750.00 Apparently the first edition of this version, another with additions by the translator Mary Wollstonecraft appeared in two volumes the preceding year. Madame de Cambon capitalized on the international popularity of Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison to create her own epistolary novel with a thirteen year-old Charles Grandison whose exemplary conduct is meant to provide a model for young men. This version is translated from the French of Arnaud Berquin, whose version of Madame de Cambon appeared in 1787 and was many times reprinted. Osborne Collection, p. 232, with ESTC adding three other locations (British Library, National Trust, and McGill). Another Stockdale edition the same year has the text ending at p. 174 and is slightly less uncommon.

46. [CANDLER, SARAH]. Buds of Genius; or, some Account of the Early Lives of Celebrated Characters who were Remarkable in their Childhood. Intended as an Introduction to Biography. London: Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1816. [vi], 135, [1]pp., 18mo. Stipple-engraved frontispiece. Original green roan-backed drab boards; head of spine slightly worn and the front free endpaper missing. $300.00 First edition of a striking and original series of child biographies, including the South Carolinian Martha Laurens Ramsey, the dissolute Irish poet Thomas Dermody, as well as better-known figures like Gibbon, Johnson, Pope, Franklin, and Isaac Newton. The Dartons G162(1), identifies the author and gives a fine note on this work including the comparison in the chapter on Hester Chapone between children’s books “of the present day” with those a century earlier. Osborne Collection, p. 779: “discussed and described in dialogue form in conversations between a mother and her two children.”

THE FIRST PICTURE-BOOK FOR CHILDREN 47. COMENIUS, JOHANN AMOS. Orbis Sensualium Pictus: Hoc est. . . Joh. Amos Comenius’s Visible World or, A Nomenclature, and Pictures, of all the Chief Things that are in the World, and of Men’s Employments therein; In above 150 Cuts. Written by the Author in Latin and and High Dutch. . . and the most suitable to Children’s Capacities of any he hath hitherto made. Translated into English by Charles Hoole, for the Use of Young Latin Scholars. London: Printed for S. Leacroft, at the Globe, Charing-Cross, 1777. [xvi], 197, [7]pp., 12mo. Woodcut illustrations throughout, parallel texts in English and Latin. A little spotting to the last couple of pages of the index, but an excellent copy. Modern unlettered sheep, with the book-label “L.G.E. Bell Collection of Children’s Books” on the front pastedown. $475.00 “The Twelfth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. And the English made to answer Word for Word to the Latin.” This is often described as the first picture-book for children, and was first published in German in 1658. The schoolmaster Charles Hoole translated it in 1659 and it was reprinted several times with engraved illustrations copied from the German edition. This new edition has woodcuts reflective of English practices, from bookselling to tennis, and a new introduction by the present edition’s editor, William Jones, in which he notes the value of the work, remarks he has added a couple of new chapters and, “as the work was composed before our Harvey had demonstrated the Circulation of the Blood, I have made the necessary alteration in that part.” Osborne Collection, p. 112, with a long note.

48. [COOPER, EMILY?]. The Holiday Visit, and other Tales: being Sketches of Childhood, designed for Juvenile Readers. London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1826. 249, [3]pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece (“The Dogs of the Convent of St. Bernard”), with a leaf of publishers’ advertisements at end. Original maroon roan-backed marbled boards; expertly rebacked with the original spine. $250.00 First edition, with discussions not only of St. Bernard’s dogs (as they are in the frontispiece, kegs and all) but also, as The Dartons G483 notes, of “various fairly recent inventions, such as gas lighting. . . Sir Humphry Davy’s miner’s lamp (1815) and Captain Manby’s improved life-boat (c. 1811).” It is possible that the author was Emily Cooper, “who in Sept. 1824 was paid by H. and D. for a MS. called ‘Sketches of Childhood,’ which has not been traced as a pubd work under that title.”

49. COPE, RICHARD. Robert Melville: or Characters Contrasted. By the Rev. Rich. Cope, L.LD., F.A.S. Author of History of a Religious Tract, The Plough Boy, Meekness and Passion, &c., &c. Abergavenny: Printed and Sold by James Hiley Morgan, sold also by Baldwin Cradock and Joy, London, and by all other Booksellers, 1827. [iv], 103, [1]pp., including the woodcut frontispiece. A fine copy in the original printed drab wrappers; corners just a little crinkled. Bookplate of Marjorie Moon on verso of the front pastedown endpaper. $300.00 First and only edition, the story of a virtuous young man’s encounters with the world’s corruption, including such things as “circulating libraries. . . an evil not only to respectable young ladies, but especially to servants.” Welsh imprints of this period only occasionally include literary works, let alone children’s books, in English. OCLC and COPAC record five copies, all in Great Britain: British Library, Bodleian, Cambridge, Glasgow, and National Library of Wales.

50. [COWPER, WILLIAM]. The Life of John Gilpin, Taken from divers Manuscripts in the Possession of the Family, and now published, for the First Time, by their Permission, for the Gratification of the Public Curiosity, respecting so extraordinary a Character. To which is added, by Way of Appendix, the Celebrated History of his Journey to Edmonton, as read by Mr. Henderson, at Free-Mason’s Hall. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Burnet, White, Burton, H. Whitestone, Byrne, Cash, M’Donnel, and Marchbank, 1785. [viii], 144pp., 12mo. With the dedication leaf “To Mr. Henderson” at pp. [iii]-[iv]. A few very minor spots and stains, but a large and attractive copy in mid-nineteenth century half calf, spine gilt. $400.00 First Dublin edition. William Cowper’s rollicking poem on John Gilpin’s wild ride was said to have been composed overnight on a visit to Lady Austen. It became the rage when the actor John Henderson began giving it public readings in 1785. This “Life” is printed in large type to appeal to grown-ups and children alike, with chapters such as “How he was sent to School for Education, and never learnt any Thing at all,” “How he was apprenticed out, and never knew his Trade,” “How he thought himself a sensible Man, and was made a Fool of by every one,” and “How he endeavoured upon all Occasions to please Mrs. Gilpin, and highly offended her notwithstanding.” ESTC lists some twenty editions or issues of pamphlets and books about John Gilpin printed in 1785 alone, but this is the only one that year printed in Dublin. Russell, William Cowper, 174; seven copies in ESTC.

51. [CROUCH, NATHANIEL], “Richard Burton.” Historical Remarques, and Observations of the Ancient and Present State of London and Westminster. Shewing the Foundation, Walls, Gates, Towers, Bridges, Churches, Rivers, Wards, Palaces, Halls, Companies, Inns of Court and Chancery, Hospitals, Schools, Government, Charters, Courts and Priviledges thereof. With an Account of the most Remarkable Accidents, as to Wars, Fires, Plagues, and other Occurrences which have happened therein for above Nine Hundred Years past, till the year 1681. Illustrated with Pictures of the most considerable Matters, curiously Ingraven on Copper Plates; with the Arms of the Sixty Six Companies of London, and the time of their Incorporating. By Richard Burton, Author of the History of the Wars of England. London: Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell next to Kemps Coffee house in Exchange Alley, over-against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1681. [iv], 116, [2], 116, [2] 12mo. Additional engraved title with illustrations of “London in Flames” and “London in Glory,” and five other plates, separate title to “The Second Part” beginning a new pagination, woodcut arms of London and its corporations at pp. 84-95, and two pages of publisher’s advertisements at end; cut close at outer edge in places occasionally touching a single letter at the end of lines (the letters all discernable), and a couple of gatherings partly sprung with a little wear around the page edges. Old, but probably not contemporary, calf; neatly rebacked. $400.00 First edition, offering an excellent contemporary account of London, especially (as the preface puts it) “since its Rise out of those Ruines that unhappily befell a great part thereof by the dreadful fire in 1666 it doth even excel itself; and the Beauty thereof is very much increased.” This is one of Crouch’s many entertaining potboilers, clearly a staple of the reading diet offered young readers. Years later Samuel Johnson, writing to the bookseller Charles Dilly, referred to them as “very proper to allure backward Readers.” Percy Muir, in English Children’s Books, p. 35, refers to Crouch, the “enterprising and industrious hackney scribbler,” as making “the first real effort to provide children with reading-matter - it is far from literature - to which they would look forward with pleasure and excitement in their leisure time.” Wing, Short-Title Catalogue 1641-1700, C7329. ESTC R22568 calls for seven plates, clearly in error; another 1681 printing has continuous pagination between the two parts and ESTC notes it as having six. All other sources offering collations, from Hazlitt’s Bibliographical Collections (II, 73) to the online records of the Harvard, Huntington, and University of London copies of the present printing, are unanimous in confirming six.

“MAGICIANS, WITCHES, CONJURORS, &C” 52. [CROUCH, NATHANIEL], “Robert Burton.” Wonderful Prodigies of Judgment and Mercy, Discovered in near Three Hundred Memorable Histories: containing I. Dreadful Judgments upon Atheists, perjur’d Persons, Blasphemers, Swearers, Cursers and Scoffers. II. The miserable Ends of divers Magicians, Witches, Conjurers, &c. with several strange Apparitions. III. Remarkable Presages of approaching Death, and of Appeals to Divine Justice. IV. The wicked Lives, and woful Deaths of wretched Popes, Apostates, and desperate Persecutors. V. Fearful Judgments upon cruel Tyrants, Murderers, &c. with the whole discovery of Murders. VI. Admirable Deliverances from Imminent Dangers, and Deplorable Distresses at Sea and Land. VII. Divine Goodness to Penitents: With the dying Thoughts of several Famous Men concerning a Future State after this Life. Collected from Antient and Modern Authors. And Illustrated with Pictures. By Robert Burton. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth at the Red-Lyon, and J. Batley at the Dove, in Pater-Noster- Row, 1729. 189, [3]pp., 12mo, including the half-title with the woodcut frontispiece on verso. Woodcut illustrations throughout, with three pages of publisher’s catalogue at end; corner off pp. 35-36 with loss of one word, a short clean tear at pp. 129-130, some staining in the lower corners towards the end. Early nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf; very worn with the spine ends chipped, but firm. $375.00 “The Eighth Edition,” first published in 1682, one of the rarer Crouch titles with over twenty pages devoted to the “miserable Ends of divers Magicians, Witches, Conjurers &c.” Three copies of this edition in ESTC and OCLC: British Library, John Rylands, and the Moravian Archives; the OCLC record corrects the error in ESTC calling for a “plate”: the woodcut frontispiece in this edition is an illustration on the verso of the half-title. The copy offered here was lot 183 in the Thomas James Hatfield sale, which lasted five days in Mr. Saunders’s “Great Room” in Fleet Street beginning May 5th 1820. This copy was described as “calf, neat,” as were most of the other sixteen lots of Nathaniel Crouch’s works in the same sale. Hatfield may have had them uniformly bound.

53. [D’AULNOY, MARIE CATHERINE]] - The White Cat. London: James Burns, [circa 1845]. 27, [1]pp., large 16mo. With a title border, vignette, and illustration and initial on the first page of text all just a little clumsily hand-colored by a child. A bright and attractive copy in the original color- printed stiff wrappers, these with imprint in the lower margin of Gregory, Collins, & Reynolds, 3 Charter House Sq.; the backstrip (victim of the recently-invented “perfect binding” gluing) perished, but the text gatherings intact. $85.00 A separate issue of this story, which also appeared as part of the second series of Burns’s Book of Nursery Tales, telling the tale of the white cat’s helping a young prince ascend to his father’s throne. For the collective issue see Osborne Collection, p. 22. The only copy of this separate issue I can find in OCLC or COPAC is in the Baldwin Collection at the University of Florida. 54. [D’AULNOY, MARIE-CATHERINE]. The White Cat Illustrated by J.W. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, [1847]. [ii], 24pp., folio. Tinted lithographed frontispiece and nine plates drawn and lithographed by J[ane, or Jemima] W. [Blackburn]; light staining in the lower margin, affecting text leaves more than the plates. Original blind-embossed white cloth, gilt vignette with title on the upper cover; neatly rebacked. $75.00 Another, much more grand, edition of this story, with very Victorian illustrations. Eleven copies in OCLC and COPAC.

55. [DAY, THOMAS]. The History of Sandford and Merton Abridged from the Original. Embellished with Elegant Plates. For the Amusement & Instruction of Juvenile Minds. London: [No publisher], 1793. 107, [1]pp. including the engraved title, plus an unsigned engraved frontispiece and five plates, sm. 8vo. An attractive copy in the original blind-patterned floral boards overprinted with colored squares; spine expertly restored. Ownership inscription “Miss Charl.tte Ross, December 28, 1793” on front pastedown (her first name slightly abraded), and a later signature on the blank recto of the frontispiece. $325.00 An early edition of an abridged version of Day’s enormously popular novel, with rather crude engraved plates. ESTC records five copies (British Library, University of British Columbia, Columbia, Illinois, and UCLA), to which OCLC adds another at the Victoria and Albert.

56. DIBDIN, CHARLES. The Physiological Mentor; or, Lessons from Nature, for Juveniles; containing Curious, Amusing, Interesting, and Instructive Facts, existing in Natural History; with Philosophical and Moral Reflections and Monitions. Written, in Short Poems. London: Printed for the Author, by W. Glendinning, 25, Hatton Garden, 1833. vi, [vi], 118pp., 18mo. With the half-title; a few minor spots and stains. Contemporary, perhaps original, patterned cloth, unlettered, front free endpaper inscribed “The gift of Mrs. Bage to her Daughters January 1834.” $200.00 First and only edition, by the famous showman known as “Charles Dibdin the Younger.” This was his last collection of verse, intended as a teaching aid for children. It must have been in the press when the author died. Osborne Collection, p. 199; four other locations in OCLC and COPAC: British Library, Leeds, Trinity Dublin, and Texas.

57. [DORSET, CATHERINE ANN]. The Lion’s Masquerade. A Sequel to the Peacock at Home. Written by a Lady. London: Printed for J. Harris, 1807. 16pp., 16mo. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece and five plates by Springsguth after William Mulready; grubby throughout with a couple of blank corners neatly restored. Original blue wrappers, also dated 1807 but without mention of “Harris’s Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction” (see below); creased and worn with loss of some lettering. $85.00 A variant of the first edition, the wrappers without reference to “Harris’s Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction.” Although still charming, the derivative possibilities for Roscoe’s Butterfly’s Ball were starting to be used up, and most critics agree that this poem - Mrs. Dorset’s second imitation - does not have quite the sparkle of its predecessor, The Peacock at Home. Moon, John Harris, 214(1A).

“FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN,” AN UNRECORDED EDITION? 58. EDIE, GEORGE. The Art of English Shooting; under the following heads: Of the Knowledge of a good Fowling-Piece. The ordering and managing the Fowling-Piece. The Appendages of the Fowling-Piece. The Choice of Powder, Shot, and Flints. Of Partridge Shooting, with the Choice and ordering Pointers. Of Pheasant Shooting, with the ordering and managing Spaniels. Of Woodcock Shooting, Of Snipe Shooting. Of Water and Fen-Fowl Shooting; and the Use of proper Dogs. Of Upland Winter Shooting. With Necessary Observations For the Young Sportsman, when out and on returning Home. London: Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakespeare’s Head, in Pater-Noster Row, [1776?]. 31, [1], 24pp., 8vo (the text) and 12mo (the 24-page publisher’s catalogue). Engraved frontispiece (partly copied in brown ink by an early “young sportsman” on the title-page), with an advertisement on the verso of p. 31 and an independent 24-page publisher’s catalogue; some mostly marginal spotting. Neatly bound in later nineteenth-century half navy calf over cloth. $850.00 An unrecorded edition, as far as I can tell, of this engaging little work, described in a 1993 Arion Press reprint as “the third treatise in English on the subject of hunting birds on the wing.” A version of this work was published in 1772 as A Treatise on English Shooting, which was expanded and printed as The Art of English Shooting, circa 1775 (ESTC T162322), with 29 pages and no frontispiece. In 1777 a dated edition appeared with the same pagination as here and a frontispiece (ESTC T136753); the Bodleian copy of this 1777 edition (apparently lacking the frontispiece) is digitized on Google and is decidedly not the same edition as the one here offered (this one does not have the printer’s ornaments of the Bodleian copy, and the present text ends with a poem). It is perhaps also worth noting that the National Library of Ireland copy of the circa 1775 edition also has, like this edition, a 24-page publisher’s catalogue. Hence my venturing the possible date for the present edition as [1776?]. As the foregoing suggests, all early editions of this work are rare. The only copy of any edition at auction since 1975 was the second edition, 1773, of the Treatise on English Shooting version, at Bloomsbury, Aug 19, 2004, lot 32 (£420 or $764).

59. ELLIOTT, MARY. The Rambles of a Butterfly. By Mary Belson. London: Printed by and for W. Darton, Jun., 1819. [ii], 177, [1]pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece and two plates, with a page of publisher’s advertisements at end. Original red roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt-ruled and lettered “Butterfly 2s.”; worn but sound. $200.00 One of three 1819 issues or states published the same year, this one with the misprint on p. 176 corrected to “entrance” and with the double rule on the title-page centered. The Dartons H495(3); Moon, Mary Elliott, 284: “not a study in natural history,” the butterfly is “a prop on which to support an interesting story about children’s doings and adventures. The [frontispiece] is an attractive picture of a spectacled old dame teaching children to read.” HAND-COLORED 60. [FENWICK, ELIZA]. Mary and Her Cat, In Words not exceeding Two Syllables. London: Printed for B. Tabart & Co., Juvenile Library, New Bond Street, 1804. 36pp., 18mo. Engraved title with hand-colored vignette and eleven other hand-colored engraved illustrations in the text. A well-read copy with some mild browning, but the elegantly-colored engravings still bright. Bound without the publisher’s wrappers, with a defective copy of the Darton firm’s Julia and the Pet Lamb, lacking two plates and the title-leaf, in contemporary black roan, spine gilt-ruled. $600.00 First edition of Mary and Her Cat, with hyphens separating the two syllable words where needed, and telling a charming tale for very young children. It had a long career of reprints, both by Tabart and the Dartons. I have not been able to locate another copy of this hand- colored issue, but Moon notes its availability, at “eighteen-pence.” Moon, Benjamin Tabart, 40(1), also noting that this first printing has the colophon, as here, “Printed by C. Squire.” In 1808 there was a new edition by another printer, retaining Tabart’s imprint and the 1804 date on the title.

61. [FENWICK, ELIZA]. Mary and her Cat: In Words not exceeding Two Syllables. London: Printed by and for William Darton, Jun., 1819. 35, [1]pp., 18mo. Folding engraved frontispiece and four plates, with a page of publisher’s advertisements at end; a little minor soiling, mostly to the edges of the plates and the upper wrapper. Still an unusually nice copy in the original stiff printed wrappers. $375.00 Second Darton edition, not so stated, first published by Benjamin Tabart in 1804 and the copyright taken over by Darton in 1814. This edition retains Tabart’s original hyphenated text for easy pronunciation, and includes an appropriate publisher alteration in Mary’s nurse telling stories or singing songs “such as she had learn-ed from the books that are sold at Mr. Dar-ton’s shop, on Hol-born Hill. . . .” The Dartons H589(2), the entry with a fine note on the author’s adventurous life.

62. FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. Franklin’s Way to Wealth; or, “Poor Richard Improved.” A New Edition: corrected and enlarged by Bob Short; and adorned with Copper-Plates. London: Printed by W. Darton, Jun. 58, Holborn-Hill, 1814 [but 1823]. 36pp., 18mo. Engraved title vignette and eleven illustrations, five of the latter dated Octr. 20. 1823. Fine in the original stiff printed yellow wrappers, the lower printing a letter (by Darton?) about Franklin, beginning “Dear Children.” $450.00 Seventh edition, not so stated, first published in 1805 as possibly the first independent publication by William Darton, Junior, and with the engraved illustrations by him. The Dartons H607(7).

63. [GALT, JOHN, sometime attributed editor]. The Fairy Annual. Edited by Robin Goodfellow, Attendant Sprite to their Majesties Oberon and Titania London: Joseph Robins, Bride Court, 1838. [iii], ii-iii, [iv], 2- 117, [3]pp., 64mo (1¾ x 1¼ inches). Hand-colored additional engraved title and eighteen plates, each with a yellow tissue-guard, the last leaf of text proposing “another Volume of the ‘Fairy Annual’” and, on verso, the colophon of the printer, Richard Watts. Original red roan, covers gilt-titled within a leafy spray surmounted by a crown and “VR”, spine gilt; upper joint near invisibly repaired. $850.00 First and only edition - the sequel was never published - a charming miniature book with the tiny engraved plates hand-colored to an astonishingly high standard. Much of the text within is credited to the publisher Joseph Robins, and it seems rather churlish to deny him the editorship, as some catalogue entries do (and I, a little reluctantly, follow). Stories include “The Fairies’ Shoemaker,” and “The Fairy of the Flowers,” and there are a number of poems as well. Welsh, Bibliography of Miniature Books, 2759. A note for Dartmouth College Rauner Library’s 2013 exhibition of miniature books describes this as: one of Rauner’s smallest books. . . Inside lies a series of stories, poems and illustrations of fairies and other magical creatures. The book is almost too small for a human to read. However, elegantly bound in brown leather, the book would look perfect on the bookshelf of a fairy about one twentieth of our size. Six locations in OCLC and COPAC, all in the U.S.A.: Dartmouth, Grolier Club, Guelph, Morgan, NYPL, and Virginia, some of which report the unbound sheets without the illustrations. The Morgan has both unbound and bound, and report their copy of the latter as containing only sixteen plates. An online bibliography of John Galt by Tim Sauer notes this title with the comment “a miniature book, probably not by Galt, but further research is in progress.”

64. [GEST, J., compiler]. Recitations in Verse, for the Use of Schools, selected from Various Authors. Dock: Printed and Sold by L. Congdon, Fore-Street, 1797. [iii] - xii, 120pp., 18mo. Without the first blank leaf, the half-title with a couple of early inscriptions, the first apparently Nicholina Crozier; some wear to the extreme outer edges of pp. 15-22, text unaffected and the leaves now resecured in the binding of later boards; backstrip a little worn. $250.00 Only edition, by a Dock schoolmaster who doubtless made his own students pay the shilling stated on the title-page. He also proposed “soon to add a second part, which will consist chiefly of detached scenes from our best dramatic writers.” This never appeared. It is worth noting, however, that Gest’s selections are uncommonly good, including Hamlet’s two most famous soliloquies, Portia’s “The quality of mercy is not strain’d,” Henry V’s “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,” Satan’s address to the sun from Paradise Lost, and poems by Christopher Smart, Mrs. Barbauld, and Mrs. Thrale. Two locations (British Library and Texas) in ESTC and OCLC.

TWO HAND-COLORED PICTURE-SHEETS 65. GREGORY, RICHARD. My Daughter. [London: William Darton, 1812 or 1818]. Hand-colored engraved picture-sheet, 8 7/8 x 11½ inches, with six engraved images each with four lines of verse above and below; imprint cut away at foot and also cut close at head. Sold with a similarly-sized period sheet titled “Idleness,” also with six hand-colored images with four lines of verse above and below, a tiny and illegible top edge of the imprint visible at foot. $300.00 Two attractive picture-sheets, one by the Darton firm, albeit both sadly cropped with loss of the imprint, which appeared below the fifth image in “My Daughter” and below the sixth in “Idleness.” Both texts are among the countless imitations of Ann Gilbert’s phenomenally popular “My Mother.” For “My Daughter” see Shefrin, The Dartons, H2026(I-i), noting the Cotsen copy of the 1812 issue as also cropped; it is about a half-centimeter taller than the present example, and about a half- centimeter narrower. The sheet was also issued cut into six leaves and stitched as a book, recorded at Darton, The Dartons, 681. OCLC records the book at the Morgan Library and Osborne collection, and the sheet only at the Cotsen Library.

66. [GURNEY, HUDSON]. Heads of Ancient History from the Deluge to the Partition of Alexander’s Empire. London: Printed by B. Howlett, 1814. [ii], 33, [1]pp., 18mo. Elegantly bound in contemporary straight-grained black morocco gilt (a little rubbed), g.e., pink endpaper inscribed “Madeville from E. Montagu.” $150.00 First and only edition, a chronicle in verse, with dates printed between the lines throughout. Given all the names and places cited, it is much more engaging than it sounds, and something of a compositional triumph. OCLC and COPAC locate nine copies, four of them (New York Public, SUNY Buffalo, California State Library, and University of Missouri) outside England. UNRECORDED EDITION 67. GUY, JOSEPH. Guy’s British Spelling Book; or, an Easy Introduction to Spelling and Reading, in seven parts; - containing a great Variety of Easy Lessons, exactly adapted to the capacities of youth: and arranged in a new, easy, and pleasing order: the Tables of Words divided and accented according to the purest modes of pronunciation. London: Baldwin and Cradock, and Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot, 1830. 168pp., 12mo. Engraved additional title in three compartments, by Cook after Harvey, and woodcut illustrations throughout. An excellent copy in the original sheep. Ownership inscription “Louisa Crawford 1832” on front free endpaper. $175.00 “Thirty-Second Edition. With fine Cuts from new Designs, and a richly Engraved Frontispiece on Steel.” The earliest edition I can trace of this popular grammar for quite young children (polysyllabic words are divided by hyphens, etc.) is a third of 1810. OCLC locates two copies of a 25th edition published in 1824, and a brief entry for a single copy of an edition of 1829 with no edition statement quoted, with COPAC adding single copies of a 35th and 37th edition. The title-page here offers copies at “Price 1s. 6d. bound - Full Allowance to Schools.”

68. HALL, ANNA MARIA. Chronicles of a School Room. By Mrs. S.C. Hall. London: Frederick Westley & A. H. Davis, Stationers’ Hall Court, 1830. viii, 243, [1]pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, with the half-title but without the two final leaves of publishers’ advertisements, the last leaf of text laid down. Contemporary half black calf; rubbed and worn with the spine label missing, but entirely sound. Early book-label “Mary Ann Flyn 11 Pool Terrace City Road” on front pastedown. $85.00 First edition of Mrs. Hall’s first work of fiction and first book for children, an improving series of tales about girls at school and their favorite studies. Osborne Collection, p. 258, quoting from the author’s dedication to Barbara Hofland; seven other locations in OCLC.

69. HENDRY, ELIZABETH ANNE. Cressingham Rectory. Family Conversations on Various Subjects. London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1836. [iv], 110, [4]pp., 12mo. With the half-title and a publisher’s catalogue at end. Original blindstamped purple cloth, upper cover gilt-titled. $100.00 First edition, with children asking their parents all kinds of questions, like “Why are people called Protestants?” and “Will you read to us Burns’s address to Edinburgh?” OCLC gives five locations, all in Great Britain.

70. HOFLAND, BARBARA. Rich Boys and Poor Boys; and other Tales London: A.K. Newman and Company, [1833]. [viii], 171, [1]pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece and additional title, with the half-title and a terminal page of publisher’s advertisements, the front endpapers printed on yellow paper with further advertisements including a list of other works by Mrs. Hofland. Original roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt; extremities a bit worn. $80.00 First edition, datable from the preface, and with a nice variety of stories such as “Rich Boys and Poor Boys, or The Birthday Bargain,” “The Passionate Little Girl, or More than One in Fault,” “William and his Story Books, or The Benefit of Experience,” and “The Riding-School, or A Cure for Conceit.” Butts, Mistress of Our Tears, 52.

71. HOOLE, CHARLES. 1. Catonis Disticha de Moribus. 2. Dicta Insignia Septem Sapientum Græciæ. 3. Mimi Publiani, sive Senecæ Proverbia, Anglo Latina. Cato item Grammatice interpretatus Latinis . . . 1. Cato’s Distichs concerning Manners. 2. Excellent Sayings of the Seven Wise Men of Greece. . . Whereby little Children may Understandingly learn the Rules of Common Behaviour. By Charles Hoole, Master of Arts, & Teacher of a private Grammar School in Goldsmith-Alley, London. London: Printed by J. Wilde, for the Company of Statoners [sic.], 1719. [xxvi], 74pp., 12mo. Printed in double columns, Latin and English. A well-used copy with some marginal wormholes touching a single letter on the title and ending altogether at the third leaf, some mild old waterstaining elsewhere. Contemporary calf over (apparently) wooden boards; rebacked. Ownership inscriptions of John and Thaddeus Maccarey dated 1731 and 1732. $150.00 First published in 1659, this popular guide for children, both to their manners and their Latin, was frequently reprinted for the next century, with this edition probably the thirteenth. All are uncommon, with ESTC, OCLC, and COPAC locating no copy of this one outside North America. Perhaps this copy too was a North American import, as wooden boards on bindings of this period were seldom used in the British Isles.

72. [JOHNSON, RICHARD]. The Illustrious and Renowned History of the Seven Famous Champions of Christendom. In Three Parts. Containing their honourable Births, Victories, and noble Atchievements, by Sea and Land, in divers strange Countries: their Combats with Giants and Monsters. Wonderful Adventures, Fortunes and Misfortunes, in Desarts, Wildernesses, and inchanted Castles: their Conquests of Empires, Kingdoms; relieving distressed Ladies, with their faithful Loves to them; the Honours they won in Tilts and Tournaments, and Success against the Enemies of Christendom. Also, With the heroick Adventures of St. George’s Three Sons. Together with The Manner of their untimely Deaths, and how they came to be stiled Saints and Champions of Christendum. London: Printed for T. Sabine, No. 81, Shoe Lane, [1790?]. 144pp., 12mo. Woodcut frontispiece with verses showing St. George and the dragon (this with a tear near- invisibly repaired), wonderful old-fashioned woodcut illustrations throughout. Attractively rebound by Philip Dusel in sprinkled sheep antique, gilt spine label. $650.00 The first Sabine edition, almost certainly re-using woodcuts acquired from an earlier printer. The earliest edition of Richard Johnson’s (1573-1659?) version seems to have been printed in 1596 (STC 14677), and it was probably never out of print from then on, with over thirty editions in one form or another appearing before this one. Johnson’s work grouped the tales of these knights together, presenting St. George, St. Andrew, St. Patrick, St. Denis, St. James Boanerges, St. Anthony the Lesser, and St. David, patron saints of, respectively, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, and Wales, in agreeably pan-European fashion. ESTC and OCLC record four copies: Bodleian, Cambridge, King’s College London, and Harvard.

73. [JOHNSON, RICHARD]. Poetical Blossoms. Being a Selection of Short Poems, Intended for Young People to repeat from memory. By the Rev. Mr. Cooper. London: Printed for E. Newbery, Corner of St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1793. iv, 176pp, 18mo. Engraved frontispiece by Cook. Original sheep; very worn but holding on the cords, the last couple of leaves of text slightly askew. Manuscript price “1s. 6d.” on front pastedown, and at center a 1½-inch circular engraved label of “Crockett’s Lilliputian Library. Bookbinder Stationer Cook Street, St. Simon’s, Norwich.” $350.00 Only edition, the poems mostly unattributed and with many of them perhaps either new, or culled from periodicals. One, “Repentance,” is attributed to a Miss Soper, and another, “To Mrs. Bindon at Bath,” includes “Mrs. Bindon’s Answer.” Roscoe, John Newbery, J297; eight copies in ESTC and OCLC.

74. JOHNSON, WILLIAM ROBERT. The History of England, in Easy Verse: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the Beginning of the Year 1806. Written for the purpose of being Committed to Memory by Young Persons of both Sexes. London: Printed for Tabart and Co., 1806. xii, 129, [3]pp., 18mo. Folding engraved map (small old repair along one fold), with a publisher’s catalogue at end; one gathering partly sprung. Original red roan-backed boards; spine ends worn, but sound. $275.00 First edition, taking the history to the death of William Pitt, and noting, e.g., But while at Austerlitz our allies fail, Great Nelson still for conquest spreads the sail; And off Trafalgar, crown’d with glory, dies. . . . Moon, Benjamin Tabart, 78(1); six copies (Buffalo & Erie, Florida State, Lilly, Monash, Texas and UCLA) in OCLC, to which COPAC adds British Library and Bodleian. The publisher’s catalogue is detailed and closely printed, and includes titles which seem entirely to have vanished, e.g. “Nursery Jingles; or, Original Rhimes for the Nursery, by M. Pelham. Price 6d. or 1s. with plates.”

75. [JOHNSTONE, CHRISTIAN ISOBEL]. The Students; or Biography of Grecian Philosophers. By the author of “Wars of the Jews,” “Scenes of Industry,” &c. &c. London: John Harris, [1827]. [ii], 217pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece and seven plates; a little foxing to the plates. Original roan-backed printed boards; some wear, but intact. $85.00 First edition. The biographies are narrated, somewhat improbably, by “three active-minded boys who went by the name of the ‘Students’. . . they spent most of their play hours, reading to each other some history or instructive book.” One said, “I am not half-satisfied with. . . the shallow history we have been reading, of the Grecian philosophers; let us each write a life of. . . them, and read it together on our next half-holiday.” Moon, John Harris, 418. 76. [KILNER, MARY ANN]. William Sedley; or, the Evil Day Deferred. By S.S. London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 47, Paternoster-Row; N. Hailes, Juvenile Library, London Museum, Piccadilly; and John Marshall, 140, Fleet-Street, from Aldermary Church-Yard, 1816. viii, “179” [i.e. 170]pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece, with the half-title and the last six pages listing “deservedly Popular Books for Children,” the last page numbered 169 on the recto and 179 on the verso. Original green roan-backed drab boards; spine rubbed with the paper label chipped but partly legible. $175.00 Second edition, not so stated, first published by John Marshall in 1783; Mary Ann Kilner used the pseudonymous initials “S.S” for her home in Spital Square, and her sister Dorothy used “M.P.” for hers at Maryland Point. William Sedley makes its morals obvious in the names of its characters like Jeffrey Squander, John Active, and Jack Careless, with the good Active family ruined by their “perverse and disobedient daughters.” This second edition is scarcer than the first, with eight copies in OCLC and COPAC.

77. KNIGHT, CHARLES, publisher. The Old Sports of England. Illustrated with Wood-Cuts. London: Charles Knight, 1835. vi, [ii], 163, [5]pp., sm. 8vo. Woodcut illustrations throughout, mostly full-page, publisher’s advertisements at end. Original embossed brown cloth. $25.00 First edition, on hunting, fishing, horse-racing, archery, tournaments, “Christmas Sports,” and “Skaiting and various Games,” among other subjects.

78. LADY, A. Ancient Ballads; Selected from Percy’s Collection; with Explanatory Notes, taken from different Authors, for the use and entertainment of Young Persons. By a Lady. London: Printed for Vernor and Hood; J. Harris; and E. Upham, Exeter, at the Union Printing Office, by W. Wilson, 1807. iv, 211, [1]pp., 12mo. Stipple-engraved frontispiece and one plate. Contemporary tree calf; the binding worn, the text fresh. $50.00 First appearance of this adaptation for children of Thomas Percy’s Ancient Ballads, first published in 1765. Osborne Collection, p.75; Moon, John Harris, 615.

ONLY KNOWN COPY? 79. [MARSHALL, JOHN, publisher]. The Picture Magazine, or Monthly Exhibition for Young People. Intended as a Reward for their Improvement, and to afford them an elegant and useful Amusement in their leisure Hours. Vol. I. London: Printed & Sold by John Marshall, No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard, in Bow Lane, Cheapside, [1799-1800]. Engraved title and 48 hand- colored plates, 16mo, consisting of six series of eight plates, each series numbered from 1-8 and with John Marshall’s imprint dated sequentially from October 1799 through March 1800, some plates signed “J. Piggot Delin.” or “John Pigott Delin et Sculp.”; some spotting and staining but the publisher’s hand-color bright and attractive throughout. Contemporary half red roan, spine gilt-ruled and lettered “Picture Magazine”; corners a bit worn and spine rubbed, but entirely sound, the lower free endpaper missing. Three early ownership inscriptions: on a front flyleaf “Miss [name unintelligible] 28 of March 1802 27 Merrion Square west Dublin,” on the title-page “Maria Tuite June 7th 1802,” and on the front pastedown an engraved label “Tuite” along with a later inscription “Cornelia Roberts St Louis Mo.” $2,500.00 Possibly the only surviving copy of the first volume of this charming children’s periodical, with the finely hand-colored illustrations showing animals (elephant, leopard, squirrel, “a paroquet,” etc.), flowers, a winter scene with ice-skaters, military scenes, musical instruments, and rustic scenes - industry is notably absent. Harvey Darton, Children’s Books in England (3rd ed. 1982, pp. 266-267) remarks on John Marshall’s efforts to produce periodical works for children. Marshall made at least three attempts at such an enterprise, with The Juvenile Magazine, The Children’s Magazine. . . and The Picture Magazine; or, Monthly Exhibition for Young People. . . which consisted of a monthly set of eight pictures and was published up to some time in 1801. The only library record I can find for this rare periodical is a single copy of Vol. III, 1800-1801, in the Cotsen Library at Princeton described as “6 sets of 8 hand-colored engraved plates bound together, with some plates wanting.” I strongly suspect that the copy of Vol. I here offered is the same as the one sold at Sotheby’s London in 1988. The summary description in American Book Prices Current reads “Vol I only. - Orig half sheep - lacking rear endleaf - With engraved title & 48 plates, colored by hand - Sotheby’s, Jun 2, 1988, lot 230, £700 ($1,245).”

80. [MARTIN, SARAH CATHERINE]. A Continuation of the Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog. London: Pub. Jan. 1, 1807. by J. Harris Corner of St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1807. 16 leaves, 16mo. Engraved frontispiece, title, and 14 text leaves, the frontispiece and each text leaf with a hand-colored illustration; tiny splash of red on the blank margin of the title, a few minor spots, and some corners slightly turned. Original printed drab wrappers dated 1806; covers a bit grubby and chafed, upper wrapper with a contemporary manuscript notation at head “1/6 cold.” and blank recto of the frontispiece with neat inscription “Amelius Sicard 1813.” $750.00 Second edition, not so stated, the plates re-engraved from the first edition the preceding year, an indication of how popular anything Mother Hubbard must have been. This is a charming successor, if not quite with the exuberance of the original. Much of the tale involves the dog’s wooing, and ends: The Bride made a Courtesy The Dog made a Bow. The Dame wished them joy, They both said Bow. Wow. Copies, especially hand-colored ones and unsophisticated ones like this, are now scarce. Moon, John Harris, 561(2), noting a copy in blue wrappers dated 1807, not the case here. The child owner of this copy must be the same Amelius Sicard who was later apprenticed to Thomas Culling, House Apothecary to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, March 1824.

HER FIRST NOVEL? 81. [MARTINEAU, HARRIET]. Principle and Practice; or, the Orphan Family. Wellington, Salop: Printed by and for Houlston and Son. And sold at their Warehouse, 65 Paternoster-Row, London, 1827. [ii], 151, [1]pp., sm. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, this a little browned, otherwise a pleasant copy. Contemporary binder’s cloth; discolored. Ownership inscription, “Ann White May 10 1836” on the blank recto of the frontispiece. $850.00 First edition of what must be Harriet Martineau’s first novel, now generally accepted as hers although some library records still show it as anonymous. The Houlston firm, however, advertised the work as by Martineau at least as early as 1851 (in a publisher’s catalogue appended to Happy Evenings; or, The Literary Institution at Home, by Clara Lucas Balfour). There are also some powerful internal indicators. Martineau suffered from deafness - “her progressive deafness had become virtually total by the age of twenty,” says the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - and a recent study, Reading Victorian Deafness, by Jennifer Esmail (2013) notes what must be a self-referential passage by Martineau in this novel: Blindness is frequently made interesting in books; deafness seldom or never. There are interesting and poetical associations connected with blindness; ridiculous, low, or common ones only with deafness. A blind heroine is charming; but would not all the world laugh at the very idea of a deaf one? A sequel was published four years later. Both are rare. For the present novel OCLC gives four locations, all with authorship as anonymous: University of St. Andrews, Boston Public, Florida, and Yale. COPAC adds two more, British Library and Bodleian, both acknowledging Martineau’s authorship. 82. MARTINEAU, HARRIET. Five Years of Youth; or, Sense and Sentiment. London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1831. [iii]-viii, 264pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece and three plates, each with two vignettes, without the half-title, a few mostly marginal stains. Contemporary green calf gilt; a little rubbed but an attractive binding, suitable for a prize, which it was: the front flyleaf is inscribed “Miss Bennell presents with much pleasure the second Prize in the first Class to Miss Keith, and sincerely hopes it will be a stimulus to cultivate with still greater assiduity the opportunities she possesses for intellectual improvement. Dec. 1833.” $200.00 First edition, an exciting tale for children largely set in France. The next year Martineau began to publish Illustrations of Political Economy, which brought her prosperity and fame. The Dartons 617(1): “one of the author’s earliest works”; Osborne Collection, p. 282; Sadleir, XIX Century Fiction, 1634; Wolff, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 4604b.

83. [MAURICE, THOMAS]. The School-Boy, a Poem. In Imitation of Mr. Phillips’s Splendid Shilling. Oxford: Printed for the Author; and sold by J. and J. Fletcher, [1775]. [iv], 12pp., 4to. With a dedication leaf “To Charles G*****” after the title. A nice large copy, disbound. $275.00 First editon, included here as it is the only eighteenth- century poem I know devoted to a schoolboy. It is also the first publication of a hugely prolific author perhaps best remembered for his studies of Indian antiquities. The poem itself is rather gothic, but its sentiments are familiar to every student, ancient and modern: Meanwhile, the Paedagogue throughout the Dome His fiery Eyeballs, like two blazing Stars, Portentous rolls, on some unthinking Wretch. . . A sudden Paleness gathers in my Face; Through all my Limbs a stiff’ning Horror spreads, Cold as the Dews of Death, nor heed my Eyes. . . from my trembling Hands The Time-worn Volume drops. . . .

UNLOCATED EDITION 84. MAVOR, WILLIAM. Catechism of Animated Nature. Or an Easy Introduction to the Animal Kingdom. For the Use of Schools and Families. London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co., Temple of the Muses, Finsbury-Square, 1810. 72pp., 18mo. An excellent copy in the original printed drab wrappers, upper cover with an overlay including Mavor himself in the imprint, along with other London booksellers, with “Price Nine Pence” at foot. $85.00 Second edition, so stated on the title, but I am unable to locate a first. This is one of several catechisms produced by Mavor around this time; an advertisement for a series of ten is on the verso of the title-page. All, of course, are in question-and-answer format, and “are adapted for children from seven to twelve years of age.” OCLC and COPAC record several American editions, all doubtless unauthorized, but only a single copy, at Yale, of a London edition, the third, also 1810, and, as here, with “Fourth Edition” on the wrapper. 85. [NEWBERY, JOHN]. Grammar and Rhetorick, being the First and Third Volumes of the Circle of the Sciences. Considerably Enlarged, and greatly Improved. London: Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, Jun. at Number 65, in St. Paul’s Church Yard, 1776. [ii], vi, 221, [1]pp., 12mo. With a page of publishers’ advertisements at end but without the half-title; short tear at foot of pp. 31- 32 with no loss of paper or text. Original sheep; very worn. $150.00 First and only edition of this combined volume from Newbery’s “Circle of the Sciences” series; John Newbery is sometimes suggested as the author. Roscoe, John Newbery, J65; Alston, Bibliography of the English Language, I, 97. Eight locations in ESTC.

86. OLD FRIEND, AN. Mince Pies for Christmas, and for all Merry Seasons: consisting of Riddles, Charades, Rebuses, Transpositions and Queries; Intended to gratify the Mental Taste, and to exercise the Ingenuity of all Sensible Masters and Misses. By an Old Friend. London: Printed for Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile & School Library, Clifford-Street, Bond-Street, 1812. vi, 192pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece dated December 25, 1804; the last six pages a publisher’s catalogue headed “Education”; a blue watercolor splotch on part of p. 145, all text visible, a couple of other minor appearances of the same blue, and another larger splotch on the front endpapers. Still a nice copy in the original red roan-backed marbled boards; tiny chip at foot of spine. $125.00 “A New Edition,” in fact the third, after those of 1804 and 1807, of a charming Tabart publication, all but the last few pages of which are entirely in verse. Mrs. Trimmer’s Guardian of Education took exception to the book and recommended that the unwholesome ingredients be taken out “with the aid of a pair of scissors.” She was especially unhappy with riddles and charades mentioning the Bible or royalty; one of the latter was “What is majesty deprived of its externals?” Solution: “A jest.” The publisher’s dedication in all editions is dated Dec 25, 1804 to “Miss Eliza Phillips, a young Lady who, on this day, completes her 7th Year, With Wit and Beauty sufficient for Seventeen.” Eliza was the daughter of the publisher Richard Phillips, whose business was closely connected with Tabart’s. Moon, Benjamin Tabart, 110(3).

87. [OXFORD] - The Costumes of the Members of the University of Oxford. Oxford: Pubd. by F. Trash, [circa 1840]. 16 leaves, 32mo (4¼ x 2¾ inches). Engraved title and fifteen hand-colored engravings depicting Oxford academics in their gowns, from the Scholar to the Chancellor, folded concertina-style into the original green cloth binding, upper cover gilt-stamped “A Present from Oxford.” An excellent copy, with the small circular ink-stamp of the Selbourne Library (dispersed by Bonhams, London in 2015-2016) on the title-page. $225.00 Evidently published in competition with a very similar volume produced by Nathaniel Whittock at around the same time. Whittock’s volume had 18 leaves, but the present one is more colorful. OCLC records two copies in the United States, at Harvard and Yale.

88. [PAGET, FRANCIS EDWARD]. The Hope of the Katzekopfs: a Fairy Tale. By William Churne, of Staffordshire. Rugeley: John Thomas Walters. London: James Burns, 1844. xv, [i], 211, [1]pp., 18mo. With a half-title “The Juvenile Englishman’s Library I,” illustrations and decorations by William Bell Scott, though seemingly uncredited other than an “S” on the last image; short split in the middle of the contents leaf, text intelligible, and a couple of minor spots. Still a nice copy in contemporary half maroon roan; slight wear at spine ends. Contemporary inscription on endpaper, “Minnia Pellew with every kind wish from E.J. Fowell.” $450.00 Rare first edition of an extraordinary little book, a thoroughgoing fairy tale full of foundling children, much magic, and considerable wit. The pseudonymous-author conceit is itself charming, with William Churne conjured from the pages of a poem by Richard Corbet, the seventeenth century bishop who lamented the passage of the fairy kingdom from the lore of England. Churne is here said to have returned after two hundred and fifty years to see if “a race that has been glutted with Peter Parley, and Penny Magazines, and such like stores of (so called) useful knowledge” can still interest itself in “the utter impossibilities of a Tale of Enchantment.” Osborne Collection, p. 920 (they also produced a reprint in 1968), with OCLC and COPAC recording a total of eight copies, two others of them in North America, at Colorado and Indiana. A later edition is also described in Osborne, pp. 376-77, with a note that the story was an inspiration for Rudyard Kipling. Brian Alderson, “Some Notes on James Burns as a Publisher of Children’s Books,” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library, Vol. 76, No. 3 (1994) calls this a “modestly momentous work,” and remarks its probable influence on Thackeray.

89. [PERRAULT, CHARLES] - The History of the Sleeping Beauty. For the Amusement of Juvenile Readers. Embellished by Numerous Engravings. Otley: Printed and Sold by W. Walker, [circa 1830]. [ii], [5]-29, [1]pp., 32mo (3½ x 2¼ inches). Woodcut frontispiece, this and the last leaf pasted to the wrappers as issued. Original printed wrappers (could these make up the otherwise- missing four pages in the pagination given above?), woodcut illustration, title and “Price One Penny” on the upper cover, “An Archer” on the lower; a little wear to the corners. $75.00 One of several William Walker printings in Otley of this much-loved story, some of his others are in larger format. What is probably this edition is located in six copies by OCLC, offering a date circa 1820.

90. “PIPER, PETER,” pseudonym. Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation. To which is added, a Collection of Moral and Entertaining Conundrums. London: John Harris, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, [circa 1830]. 34, [2] pp., 12mo. Hand-colored woodcut frontispiece and 24 illustrations, one for each of the alphabet of tongue-twisters, the last page of text with colophon “Printed by Samuel Bentley,” with a page of publisher’s advertisements at end containing 64 items. An exceptionally nice copy in the original stiff printed yellow wrappers, the Athena roundel on the lower cover, only the slightest wear to the backstrip and dustiness to the covers, the hand- coloring bright and fresh. Early twentieth-century engraved bookplate of John Needels Chester (1864-1955) on front pastedown. $1,250.00 The last of John Harris’s printings of this, one of the great children’s books of Regency England, with its alphabetical series of tongue-twisters including the immortal “Peter Piper pick’d a Peck of Pepper.” One should not, however, ignore others in the book such as “Lanky Lawrence lost his Lass and Lobster,” which an 1820 reviewer of the then- contemporary children’s literature specifically referred to as “degrading trash.” Moon, John Harris, 629(6)), not noting this edition in wrappers nor with the expanded 64-item publisher’s list (Moon’s description of a copy in cloth calls for 52 items on the list). John Needels Chester was a mechanical engineer, who donated a substantial part of his extensive book and manuscript collections to his alma mater, the University of Illinois, after his death.

91. [PRIMER] - The Royal Primer: or, the First Book for Children. Adapted to their tender Capacities. Authorized by His Majestry King George III. To be used throughout His Majesty’s Dominions. Adorned with Handsome Engravings. Dublin: Printed by William Jones, 75, Thomas-Street, 1818. 96pp., 24mo (4 x 3¼ inches). Woodcut frontispiece (“A Good Boy and Girl at their Books”) and illustrations, many of them half-page. An unusually nice copy in contemporary fine-grain purple cloth; spine restored. In a handsome maroon morocco-backed slipcase, spine fully gilt. Blindstamp on front free endpaper “T.J. Connolly Bookseller & Stationer Old Libraries Bought Galway.” $1,000.00

One of the few obtainable editions of this enormously popular primer, first published by John Newbery around 1750 and many times reprinted in England, Ireland, and America. The half-page woodcuts of animals with accompanying verses are especially charming, e.g. “The Parrot”: Prates he knows not what, For all he says is got by Rote: So Children babble what they hear, And Consequences never fear. I suspect this is the Gumuchian copy, described in their 1930 catalogue Les Livres de l’Enfance at item 207 and plate 69. It has a pencilled note on the lower paste-down similar to others I have seen, and the attractive slipcase matches more than twenty I have seen housing other books from that collection. It was sold (in the same auction as several other Gumuchian copies) at Christie’s New York 13 December 2006, lot 69. (For items in two other matching slipcases, please see nos. 98 and 113 in this list, and there is an illustration of all three slipcases following no. 113). FRONTISPIECE BY LADY CAROLINE LAMB 92. ROWDEN, FRANCES ARABELLA. A Biographical Sketch of the most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. London: Printed by A.J. Valpy. . . sold by Longman and Co., 1820. [ii], [iv], xiv, 180pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece by Illman after Lady Caroline Lamb, with an inserted initial leaf “To Parents and Guardians” announcing the establishment of Miss Rowden’s school in Paris, “where the elegant accomplishments are combined with every useful attainment”; pp. [v]-xiv are a subscribers’ list including Lady Caroline, her husband William Lamb, relations including Lady Caroline’s mother the Countess of Bessborough, and various other aristocrats. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt; spine head a bit worn. $700.00 First edition, with William Cowper the most modern author considered, and with critical “reflections” praising the progress of English poetry, especially Shakespeare, and the literature of France, Spain (especially Cervantes), Portugal, and Germany. Lady Caroline Lamb was one of the author’s pupils at a school belonging to the St. Quintins in Hans Place, London. Miss Rowden herself attended an earlier incarnation of the same school in Reading, her time there possibly overlapping with Jane Austen’s. This book is clearly meant to be a companion to the the same author’s A Christian Wreath for the Pagan Deities, published the same year, and is certainly intended for schoolgirls. Even the two books’ frontispieces are similar, both engraved by Illman from drawings by Lady Caroline Lamb. It is hard to imagine, though not inconceivable, that Lady Caroline produced these drawings in 1820, years after her fling with the “mad, bad, and dangerous to know” Lord Byron; perhaps they date to her schoolgirl days. Four copies in OCLC and COPAC: British Library, Bodleian, Leeds, and Johns Hopkins.

93. RUSHER, WILLIAM. Reading made Most Easy; consisting of a Variety of Useful Lessons: Proceeding from the Alphabet to Words of two Letters only; and from thence to Words of three, four, five Letters, &c. &c. so disposed, as to draw on Learners with the greatest ease and pleasure, both to themselves and Teachers. Recommended for the use of Schools. By W. Rusher, Banbury, Oxon. Banbury: J.G. Rusher, Market Place: London: - Simpkin and Marshall, Longman, Evans, Penny, Darton, Harvey, Whittaker. . . Reading: Slatter, and Lowndes and Son, Oxford: Birdsall, and Freeman, Northampton: and all other Booksellers. Price Sixpence, [circa 1835]. 71, [1]pp., 18mo. Woodcut frontispiece (“The Root of the Tree of Learning is bitter, but the Fruit sweet”), first and last leaves pasted to the covers as issued. A startlingly fine copy in the original cloth-backed printed boards, upper cover with abbreviated title and imprint, the lower with publisher’s advertisements. $250.00 “Three Hundred and Seventy-First Edition” of this vastly popular primer, written by the founder of the Rusher firm and with the earliest known edition (in the Osborne collection) the second of 1786. The Dartons H1328 lists three editions with the Darton firm in the imprint, from the 300th to the 459th; based on the chronology there given, a date for this edition in the mid-1830s seems certain. A half-dozen editions are recorded in OCLC and COPAC, none in more than two copies. Cambridge has the 369th (dating it only as “1800s”), which is as close as any recorded edition gets to this one. 94. RYLAND, JOHN. The Preceptor, or Counsellor of Human Life; for the Use of the British Youth. Containing Select Pieces in Natural and Moral Philosophy, History, and Eloquence; the Lives of Sir Isaac Newton, Rollin, Demosthenes, and Milton: Also Short Sketches of the Birth and Death of some of the most illustrious Men in all Ages. The Whole Designed to be a most entertaining and instructive Book for the Apprentices of the City of London, to assist them in recollecting and retaining the most important Parts of a good Education; With a dedication to Sir Stephen Theodore Janssen, Bart. the late worthy Chamberlain of London; and a preface addressed to the youth of the city of London. Compiled by John Ryland, A. M. of Northampton. London: Sold by Messrs. Dilly, in the Poultry; London and by Mr. Etherington, in York, 1776. xl, ix, [iii], 390, [2]pp., 12mo. A little spotting, but a very good copy in contemporary calf; handsomely rebacked. $350.00 First edition, second impression, which ESTC describes as “A reimpression of the [1775?] octavo edition, printed for Dilly, London, imposed on a duodecimo format; with a different titlepage, with the addition of 40-pages of prefatory matter, a list of subscribers, and pp. 373-390 containing errata and advertisements.” This change of format by the publisher resulted in the table of contents being repeated, the first time as part of the 40 pages of preliminaries, and the second time after the nine pages of subscribers. ESTC records seven copies of this issue, two of them (though none of the 1775 issue) in North America, at Columbia and Stanford.

95. [SHARPE, RICHARD SCRAFTON]. The Master-Cat; or, Puss in Boots. By the Author of “Old Friends in a New Dress.” London: Printed and Sold by R. Dutton, Gracechurch Street, 1808. 16pp., 16mo (4¾ x 4 inches). Engraved frontispiece and seven plates. Neatly bound in a mid-nineteenth- century collector's binding of roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered; upper joint partly split. With a handsome, unidentified circular gilt-monogrammed morocco book-label on the front pastedown. $850.00 First edition of this poetical version by Sharpe, an author deserving much fuller investigation than he has so far received. His Old Friends in a New Dress is a fine poetical version of Aesop, many times reprinted, and he also seems to have been the author of Anecdotes and Adventures of Fifteen Gentlemen, 1821, one of the first books of English limericks. The present charming poem seems to be the first separately-printed nineteenth-century English edition of “Puss in Boots.” It received a friendly notice in The Antijacobin Review and Magazine, September 1808: “Puss in Boots furnishes a good practical moral never to despair, but ‘always hope and act the best,’ in whatever situation of life young persons may be placed.” Osborne Collection, p. 41; two other copies (Ocean State and Princeton) in OCLC; no copy in COPAC.

96. [SHARPE, RICHARD SCRAFTON, and Mrs. Pearson]. Dame Wiggins of Lee and her Seven Wonderful Cats. A Humorous Tale. By a Lady of Ninety. Embellished with Fifteen Neatly Coloured Engravings. London: Thos. Dean & Son, Threadneedle-Street, [circa 1850]. 54, [2], [8]pp., 16mo, the last eight pages being publisher’s advertisements. Fourteen full-page hand- colored illustrations, the fifteenth is the hand-colored title vignette, the text and illustrations printed on one side of each leaf; some signs of use but the colors bright. Original blind-stamped brown cloth, upper cover gilt-titled; edges worn, rebacked. $175.00

An attractive later edition of these irresistible verses, which seem first to have been published in the early 1820s. To quote just a snippet, once Dame Wiggins’s cats have cleared the cottage of mice and rats, she sends them to school: The Master soon wrote That they all of them knew How to read the word “milk” And to spell the word “mew.” And they all washed their faces Before they took tea: ‘Were there ever such dears?’ Said Dame Wiggins of Lee. Osborne Collection, p. 632, and p. 60 for the attribution of authorship.

97. SHERWOOD, MARY MARTHA. Katharine Seward. By Mrs. Sherwood. [Bound with four others, for which see below]. London: Printed for Houlston and Son, 65, Paternoster-Row; and at Wellington, Salop, 1830. 36pp., 18mo. Woodcut frontispiece and five full-page illustrations, all included in the pagination, also a title-page vignette; a few minor spots. Bound with other chapbooks in well-used but sound contemporary half roan. Blank recto of frontispiece inscribed “Miss E. Coumbe’s Book Octr. 28th 1833.” $200.00 First edition of a rare Mrs. Sherwood title, with attractive woodcuts. Cutt, Mrs. Sherwood and her Books for Children, C70; Osborne Collection, p. 302, with OCLC and COPAC recording two other copies, at Trinity Dublin and Northwestern. The volume contains four other works, three of them variously defective. But there is a complete copy of an unusually rare (OCLC and COPAC record only the British Library copy) Religious Tract Society chapbook: Hints to Christian Females on Dress, 1836, 36pp., 18mo, with the last eleven pages consisting of “A Letter from the Rev. Dr. Judson, to the Female Members of Christian Churches in America.”

THE GUMUCHIAN COPY 98. SHERWOOD, MARY MARTHA. Ermina. By Mrs. Sherwood. London: Printed for Houlston and Son, 65, Paternoster Row; and at Wellington, Salop, 1831. viii, 170pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece (this, as the Gumuchian catalogue puts it, “slightly foxed”) woodcut title vignette, initials and illustrations, with the half-title. Original green roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt; very slightly rubbed. In a handsome maroon morocco-backed slipcase, spine gilt. $400.00 First English edition, originally published in 1826 in The Youth’s Magazine and almost immediately pirated by American publishers. This is one of Mrs. Sherwood’s Indian novels, following the travels and adventures of young Ermina as she travels and grows accustomed to life there. It is also, as Nancy Cutt puts it, “a warning tale for young readers of the upper classes.” Cutt, Mrs. Sherwood and her Books for Children, p. 20 and C37; Osborne Collection, p. 934. This is the Gumuchian copy, with their inventory number and price “85” (i.e. 85 francs) on the front pastedown. Their description in Les Livres de l’Enfance is at no. 5327, describing this as a “fine copy” (I think it is too). It was afterwards sold, in the same auction as several other Gumuchian copies, at Christie’s New York, 13 December 2006, part of lot 44. (For an illustration of the slipcase, please see after item 113 in this list, below).

99. SHERWOOD, MARY MARTHA. Caroline Mordaunt; or, the Governess. London: William Darton and Son, Holborn Hill, [1835]. [ii], 232pp., 12mo. Baxter color-printed frontispiece “Baxter’s Oil Colour Printing, 3, Charter House Square.” Original embossed maroon leather, g.e.; rubbed with the spine ends worn. $100.00 First edition, sometimes said to be the first children’s book to contain a Baxter print, but Lawrence Darton points out another, also by Mrs. Sherwood, published earler in 1835. The Dartons H1359(1); Cutt, Mrs. Sherwood and her Books for Children, H3, noting that the novel’s “lively, humorous, and satirical strain. . . parallel similar episodes in the work of Jane Austen or Jane Taylor.”

100. SIDNEY, Sir PHILIP. The History of Argalus & Parthenia: being A choice Flower gathered out of Sir Philip Sidney’s Rare Garden. [No place or printer, but London:] Printed in the Year 1788. - (Jy). 24pp., 12mo. Woodcut title vignette and five other woodcuts including one of the Queen of Corinth and, at the end, a winged skull enclosing “Finis”; printed on poor paper with some browning, especially at the edges, and a couple of expert minor paper repairs at the extreme outer edges of the title. Attractively bound by Philip Dusel in green morocco-backed marbled boards, spine gilt. $450.00 A rare little abridgment of Sir Philip Sidney’s famous romance, likely taken from an earlier printing at Aldermary Church Yard. Presumably the “Jy” in the imprint means this was printed either in January or July of 1788. ESTC, OCLC, and COPAC record two copies, British Library and Pretoria State.

UNRECORDED CHILDREN’S PERIODICAL WITH BEWICK CUTS 101. SIMPSON, ROBERT. The Infants’ School Repository. By the Rev. R. Simpson, M.A. F.R.S.L., &c. Derby: Printed by Henry Mozley and Son, And sold by G. Wilkins and Son, Derby; Seely and Son, London; Houlston and Son, Paternoster Row. . . and all other Booksellers, 1829- 1830. 24 numbers in two volumes, 32mo (4¾ x 3 inches), each number consisting of eight leaves with a drop-head title and “Price 1d.”, the four leaves of preliminaries in each of the two volumes presumably making up the final four leaves in nos. XII and XXIV, and each number with between one and four wood-engraved illustrations, at least one of which can be identified as from the workshop of Thomas Bewick. Contemporary, probably original, red roan-backed marbled boards, spines gilt. $875.00 A bound collection of the first 24 numbers of this engaging little children’s periodical, with the first number dated July 1828 and headed “Second Edition,” all other numbers with no edition statement and the last dated June 1830. The author is clearly the Presbyterian minister Robert Simpson (1792/1795-1867), who gives the only reference I can find anywhere to the present work, in his Clergyman’s Manual (1842), where at p. 127 he quotes from The Infants’ School Repository no. XXVIII, thereby demonstrating that there was at least one more volume produced. Although this periodical has much in the way of religion in it, there are many diversions such as poems like “The Five Senses,” “The Negro,” “Alphabet of Scripture Animals,” and “Folly of Finery.” Both volumes contain a series of “Questions adapted to Darton’s Prints,” and many accounts of different animals, usually accompanied by woodcut vignettes. And it is this variety of vignettes that leads to Thomas Bewick. As Nigel Tattersfield, Thomas Bewick, II, 906 et seq. notes, the publisher Henry Mozley commissioned a series of woodblocks from Thomas Bewick which were produced from May through August 1806, and saw “intermittent” use by Mozley after his move from Gainsborough to Derby in 1815. One of the cuts illustrated by Tattersfield at p. 907 (the boy rescued after a fall through ice) appears at Vol. I of The Infants’ School Repository p. 105, and there can be little doubt that some of the other cuts are also from the same Bewick commission.

102. STEWART, ELIZABETH M. Original Poetry for Young Persons. London: Thomas Allman, 42, Holborn Hill, 1846. iv, 104pp., 18mo. Lithographed frontispiece (slightly stained in the upper margin). Bound with another work (see below) in publisher’s cloth, spine gilt with title “Garland of Poems &c.” Front free endpaper inscribed “Master Renshaw Septr 25th 1851.” $80.00 First and only edition, with cautionary poems about playing with firearms (two children end up dead), a boy who can’t resist the temptations of ripe apples only to discover them made of wax, a little girl who dies from poisonous berries, and so on. The defective work bound first in this volume, and with the frontispiece to the Stewart volume facing its title, is Lydia Maria Child’s Garland of Juvenile Poems, lacking pp. 51-58. This was published circa 1840 and evidently remainder sheets were here bound up with the Stewart volume to make a more substantial work, as the binding is clearly publisher’s. Both works are uncommon, with the Stewart volume located in the Osborne collection, National Library of Scotland, and University of Florida.

103. SULLIVAN, WILLIAM FRANCIS. The History of Master George Freeland; or, How to Spend Your Time. Intended for the Amusement and Instruction of Youth. London: Printed for Whittingham and Arliss, Juvenile Library, Paternoster Row, 1816. 95, [1], 8pp., 18mo. Hand-colored engraved plate (the frontispiece? - see below)) at p. 76, with a separate eight-page publishers’ catalogue dated 1816 at end. Original marbled boards, crudely rebacked with later endpapers. $60.00 First edition, a moral tale. Sullivan (1756-1830), self-described as a “Teacher of Elocution, Belles Lettres, &c,” served in the British Navy during the American Revolution. He published a number of children’s books with different publishers between about 1816 and 1821, and then fell silent. OCLC and COPAC locate three copies of this one, all in North America and calling for twelve pages of publishers’ catalogue. The catalogue in the present copy lists this title on p. 6 as “With a beautiful frontispiece,” but the OCLC listing for the Osborn collection copy mentions two plates.

104. [TABART, BENJAMIN, editor]. Tabart’s Moral Tales, in Prose and Verse. Selected and Revised from the Best Authors. In Four Volumes [here Vols. II and IV only]. London: Printed for Tabart and Co. at their Original Juvenile Library, New Bond-Street, [1809]. 2 vols. of four only, being Vols. II and IV, 18mo. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece and four plates in each of the two volumes, some captions cropped (as must have happened often, as the text margins are ample). Attractively bound in circa 1900 sprinkled calf gilt, g.e. $200.00 First and only edition with, as Marjorie Moon puts it, ‘moral’ covering exotic tales, stories about animals, adventures on sea and land, Jauffret’s The little hermitage, Marmontel’s Belisarius [the subject of the four plates in Vol. IV]. . . . and that least moral of poems, Parnell’s The hermit. Moon, Benjamin Tabart, 168, noting that the “Directions to the Binder” leaf in Vol. IV calls only for the frontispiece, true of the Osborne copy and perhaps some others (see Osborne Collection, p. 1048). Moon does not note hand-colored copies of this work, and of course there was fine hand- coloring available to end-of-the-nineteenth-century bookbinders, which may explain its presence here. 105. [TAYLOR, JANE, and ANN TAYLOR GILBERT]. City Scenes: Or A Peep into London for Good Children. By the Author of Rural Scenes. London: Printed for and sold by Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch-Street, 1809. 72pp., 12mo. Engraved title and 35 plates displaying 103 illustrations, three plates captioned “December 1st 1808”; a few minor spots, the text block working loose from the binding, but all gatherings still attached. Original red roan-backed drab boards; very rubbed with the spine head slightly chipped. $600.00 One of three impressions dated 1809, this one sometimes called the “first edition, second state.” It seems likely that few if any revisions were made other than the removal of “The End” and the publishers’ imprint on p. 48, both of which were mistakenly left in place after additional material was added to the first printing; three of the plates, as noted above, retain the imprints dated December 1st 1808. This is one of the Taylors’ major works, with many succeeding editions, but both states of this first edition are rare. The engraved illustrations are taken from drawings by Isaac Taylor, and the scenes do not shirk the seamier sides of town. The Dartons 913(2) records copies at the Victoria and Albert and Miami University Ohio, with the first state located at the Bodleian, Cambridge, Osborne Collection (see p. 814), and the Lilly Library. OCLC and COPAC add a copy of one or the other state at the British Library. The present copy is from Pamela Harer’s collection, sold at Pacific Book Auctions, Feb 19, 2015, lot 414.

106. TAYLOR, JEFFERYS [and JANE]. Harry’s Holiday; or, the Doings of One who had Nothing to Do. London: Printed for Rest Fenner, 1818. vi, 142, [2]pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece of an old pedlar outside Harry’s window, possibly by Jefferys Taylor, with a leaf of publisher’s advertisements at end. Original red roan-backed marbled boards; a bit worn and shaken, and with a later red ownership stamp of W.J.P. Chatto on the title-page. $125.00 First edition of Jefferys Taylor’s first book, with a preface by his sister Jane who describes it as “chiefly composed during the weeks of a painful illness.” Stewart, The Taylors, A25 (with illustration); Osborne Collection, pp. 310 and 948, records the second and third editions.

UNRECORDED MARY JANE GODWIN EDITION 107. [TAYLOR, JOHN]. Monsieur Tonson. A New Version. London: Printed for M.J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, 41, Skinner Street, 1812. 16pp., 16mo. Twelve engraved plates; corner off pp. 9- 10 catching part of a single letter, one or two line borders shaved on the plates and a few minor stains. Bound with Mary Jane Godwin’s edition of Mounseer Nongtongpaw in the same format, also with twelve engraved plates but lacking its title-page, both poems without their original printed wrappers, in contemporary half roan; spine splitting and chipped at head. $475.00 Apparently the third Godwin edition of Monsieur Tonson, following those of 1810 and 1811. There are also Godwin editions of 1813 and 1816, but this 1812 edition appears to be unrecorded. The original poem is an amusing spoof on the French, with this “new version” summarized on the title page: Monsieur Tonson, a sportive strain, Once made a deal of noise, And now we tell it here again, To all good girls and boys. All Godwin editions are rare. OCLC and COPAC show the two earlier editions at the British Library and the Lilly. The title-less Mounseer Nongtongpaw is probably also the 1812 edition, and of course it is now recognized as the work of the eleven year-old Mary Shelley, probably corrected by her father William Godwin and here published by her stepmother.

THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WRITTEN FOR SWEDISH CHILDREN 108. [TESSIN, CARL GUSTAFT, Count]. Letters from an Old Man to a Young Prince, with the Answers. Translated from the Swedish [by John Berkenhout]. To which are prefixed those of Her Present Majesty to her Son: with the Translations. London: Printed for R. Griffiths, at the Dunciad in Pater- noster-Row, 1756. 2 vols., 12mo. Title-leaves slightly browned at edges from the binding turn-ins, but a good fresh copy. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf; rebacked preserving the original spine labels, corners worn. Engraved armorial bookplate of John Ingilby, Ripley, Yorks. in both volumes (probably the father of the first baronet of the same name). $400.00 First edition of the polymath John Berkenhout’s translation of what the Encyclopaedia Britannica calls “the first fairy tales written for Swedish children.” ESTC records seven locations in Europe, and four in North America, at Cornell, Minnesota, Penn, and UCLA.

109. [THOMS, WILLIAM JOHN, compiler]. Gammer Gurton’s Pleasant Stories of Patient Grissel, The Princess Rosetta, & Robin Goodfellow, and Ballads of the Beggar’s Daughter, The Babes in the Wood, and Fair Rosamond. Newly Revised and Amended by A.M. [“Ambrose Merton,” Thoms’s pseudonym]. [London:] Printed for Joseph Cundall, Old Bond St., [1845]. [100]pp., sm. 4to. Wood-engraved frontispiece and five plates, the volume made up of separately-paginated stories which were also issued separately, each page printed between a leafy border; a little spotting at the beginning. Original blind-embossed blue cloth, upper cover and spine gilt; small tear at center of spine, but all cloth present. $75.00 First collected edition under this title, one of Joseph Cundall’s many influential projects. The plates were drawn by John Absolon and John Franklin. Osborne Collection, p. 612; eight other copies in OCLC and COPAC.

110. TRUSLER, JOHN. Principles of Politeness, and of Knowing the World. In Two Parts. . . . For the Improvement of Youth, Yet not beneath the Attention of Any. . . Part II. is particularly addressed to Young Ladies. London: Printed at the Literary Press, No. 62, Wardour-street, Soho, 1790. [xii], 103, [5], 11, [1]pp., 12mo. With two leaves of advertisements at end, followed by a separate “List of Books, published by the Rev. Dr. Trusler, at the Literary-Press. . . 1790.” Original sheep- backed marbled boards; most of the spine covering missing, but firm on the sewing cords. Contemporary engraved bookplate of James Tomkinson and, above, signature “Edwd. Tomkinson Esq. 31st Decr. 1791 Rugby.” $65.00 “The Fifteenth Edition.” Trusler’s collection of the “valuable precepts” in Chesterfield’s Letters first appeared in London in 1775 and was an instant success; the second part for “Young Ladies” is Trusler’s own work. Of this edition ESTC records two copies, at Huntington and San Diego State, both apparently without the separate eleven-page catalogue here present.

111. [TURNER, ELIZABETH?] - Grandmamma’s Book of Rhymes for the Nursery. London: John Harris, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1831. vi” [i.e. viii], 76pp., 16mo. Woodcut illustrations, with four pages of publisher’s advertisements included in the preliminaries. Essentially disbound within the original and unusual green patterned cloth, pink paper title-label on upper cover. Title inscribed “George Montgomery Traherne from his Aunt Maria Sep. 30. 1832. $175.00 First edition, mostly poems about domestic animals (dogs and donkeys and ponies, with a few excusions into flowers, butterflies, and spiders). Two subsequent editions followed, both rare. Moon, John Harris, 328(1); Osborne Collection, p. 641, with two other locations (Aberystwyth and Iowa) in OCLC. COPAC adds one more, at the National Trust, its record assigning authorship to Elizabeth Turner (d. 1846), author of the phenomenally popular John Harris publications The Daisy and The Cowslip.

112. WATTS, ISAAC. Divine Songs, attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children. Gainsborough: Printed by Henry Mozley, Market-Place, 1802. 72pp., 18mo. Attractive woodcut frontispiece and illustrations; a few minor spots. Original boards, plain roan spine; rubbed and chafed, but entirely sound. Ownership inscription “Joseph Mawson Book goat mills near Cockermouth.” $100.00 One of several editions printed by the Mozley firm in Gainsborough; the first was 1785. All are rare, with this one recorded only at the Bodleian Library. 113. [WILSON, LUCY SARAH ATKINS]. Amusing Anecdotes of Various Animals. Intended for Children. By the Author of “The Coral Necklace,” &c. Embellished with neat Engravings on Wood. Printed and Sold by J.E. Evans, Long Lane, West Smithfield, [circa 1830]. 35, [1]pp., 18mo. Woodcut frontispiece and illustrations. An excellent copy in the original blue printed wrappers, small overlay “Price Fourpence” on upper cover. Preserved in a cloth sleeve and handsome maroon morocco-backed slipcase, gilt. $200.00 Second edition, so stated, and variously dated in the library records from 1820 to 1835. This appears to be one or the other of two Gumuchian copies, listed in Les Livres de l’Enfance at items 338 and 339; that firm’s characteristic pencilled notes are present, though partially erased, and the attractive slipcase matches more than twenty I have seen housing other books from that collection. (For an illustration of the slipcase, please see below).