CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, ANTIQUE FANS, TOYS AND CERAMICS, MODERN FIRST EDITIONS

Bogue (David, publisher). The Bachelor’s Own Book, being The Progress of Mr. Lambkin, (Gent.) in the Pursuit of Pleasure and Amusement, and also i...

Cock Robin. The Death and Burial of Cock Robin. With the Trial and Execution of the Sparrow, For Killing Cock Robin, printed for, and sold by, C. ...

Darton (William, publisher). Trial and Execution of the Sparrow, For Killing Cock Robin, c.1818, sixteen engraved illustrations each with verse ab...

Dean and Munday, publishers. The Surprising History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk, [1815”], hand-coloured folding frontispiece, 1.25” split in edge o...

* Fores (S.W., publisher). Five unused printed envelopes, comprising Courting (No.1), Musical (No.2), Dancing (No.3), Civic (No.6), Christmas (No....

Guild of Women Binders. Hawthorn and Lavender: Songs and Madrigals, by W.E. Henley, [1899], 13pp., one ink manuscript correction and author’s init...

[Johnson, Richard, ed.]. The Lilliputian Letter-Writer, being Vol. V of The Lilliputian Library; or, Gulliver’s Museum... the whole forming a comp...

Langley (E. publisher). Cries of London; History of Cinderella and Her Glass Slipper; Robinson Crusoe; Four Seasons, c.1820s, together four volume...

Marshall (John, publisher). The Frisking, Barking, Lady’s Lap-Dog. A New Game of Questions and Commands. Embellished with Fourteen Coloured Engrav...

Newman and Co., publishers. The Water Cure Illustrated. Twelve Subjects, c.1870, twelve humorous etched plates, each with caption below, some ligh...

* Panorama. Robins’s Panoramic Representation of the Queen’s Coronation Procession in Westminster Abbey, on the 28th June 1838, Delineating every ...

[Perrault, Charles]. Cinderella; or the Little Glass Slipper. A Tale for the Nursery. From the French of C. Perrault, Sixth Edition, With Three Co...

Phillips (Watts). [The Model Republic, or Cato Potts in Paris, D. Bogue, c.1848], twenty-four hand-coloured etchings with text beneath, on twenty ...

Richardson (Thomas, pub.). Punch and Judy, c.1838, eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations, each with verse below, printed on facing pages only...

Roberts (George). A Catechism of Drawing; in which the Rules for Attaining a Knowledge of that Accomplished Art are given in language adapted to t...

Stokes (Whitley). Gwreans an Bys. The Creation of the World, a Cornish Mystery, Edited, with a Translation and Notes, London and Edinburgh, 1864, ...

Tabart (Benjamin). Popular Fairy Tales; or, A Liliputian Library; containing twenty-six choice pieces of Fancy and Fiction, by those renowned pers...

Wallis (J., publisher). The Interesting Story of the Canary Bird, and the History of the Negro Girl, c.1810, 24pp., three wood engraved illusts. a...

* Doll’s House. A large American Folk Victorian-style doll’s house, late 20th century, a three-storey wooden doll’s house, painted blue, with whit...

* Vintage Dolls. A collection of six dolls, 1930s and later, including a composite baby, the rear of head stamped Sur 1357/3, rubber arms and legs...

* Armand Marseille. An Edwardian bisque head doll, with articulated eyes and rear of head incised Made in Germany Armand Marseille 390 A5/OXM, com...

Neal (J., publisher). Wheel of Life. Neal’s Penny Games. Shadows, Models, Dissected Puzzles, No. 8, c.1850, large folding sheet with three rows of...

* [Potter, Beatrix]. Peter Rabbit’s Race Game, A Very Amusing and Interesting Game Introducing the Famous Characters created by Miss Beatrix Potte...

* Puzzle. A set of Victorian talking picture blocks, c.1890, set of six colour lithographed pictorial blocks, each with a string which makes an an...

* Rocking Horse. A child’s rocking horse by Swallow Toys, c.1950s, painted wood with stenciled details, leather bridle with bells, leather stirrup...

Webb’s Juvenile Drama. The Battles of Balaklava and Inkerman, A Military Spectacle. Written expressly for and adapted only to Webb’s Characters an...

* Advertising. A three-dimensional advertising model for Ladybird children’s wear, c.1950s, a large resin toadstool house with a yellow door, hear...

* Valentines. A pair of rare handmade leaf Valentines, c.1790, the first featuring two gentlemen in cavalier costumes wooing a lady in a garden wi...

* Valentines. A handmade Valentine, c.1800, depicting a colour lithograph of a young lady set within a blue and gold envelope with decorated and s...

* Valentine. A rare handmade ‘sailor’s” Valentine, c.1750, hand-coloured vignette of a woman, ship and birds with printed verse set within a flora...

* Victorian Paper Lace Valentines. A selection of nine cards including an oval chromolithograph of a young girl upon a pink ground, lozenge mark f...

* Victorian Paper Lace Valentines. A selection of lace cards, including a paper lace card by Dobbs, c.1840, with intricate workmanship with added ...

* Valentine Paper Lace Valentines. A triple-fold silk sachet card, probably by Mullord, c.1860, floral oval chromolithograps against a silver and ...

* Valentines. A selection of nine “Vindictive” Valentines, c.1840/60, including examples by Robert Canton, Kershaw and A. Park, mostly embossed wi...

* Valentines. A group of 9 “Vindictive” one penny Valentines by A. Park, c.1840-50, including various tradesmen caricatured with lewd and vindicti...

* Valentines. Two “Vindictive” Valentines by McLoughlin Bros of New York, c.1880-90, titled “French Nurse” and “An Awful Bust”, stencilled colours...

* Valentines. A group of 3 “Mechanical cards”, c.1850/60, “Love is Heaven and Heaven is Love”, “Loves Blind They Say”, “There are Two Sides to Eve...

* Victorian Paper Lace Valentines. A selection of 13 Valentines, including a Walter Crane “Quiver of Love” card, c.1880-90, with rhyme inside, a r...

* Valentine Fan. A rare colour lithographic Valentine fan by Farr, c.1880, with four leaves illustrating the language of love through flowers, 22....

* Stand-up Valentines. A three-dimensional pull-out and stand-up Valentine by Hallmark, 1923, featuring a cupid in a forget-me-not and rose-decked...

* Cremorne Rose Fan. A pierced and shaped paper fan by Joseph Myers, c.1855, unfolded showing 28 engraved vignettes of the Isle of Wight and 2 col...

* Christmas Stand-Up Cards. A three-dimensional colour lithograph stand-up Christmas card, c.1890, showing the Holy Family stable scene with Bethl...

Ainslie (Kathleen). “What I did”, [1905]; “Catharine Susan and Me’s Coming Out”, [1907]; Catherine Susan’s Calendar for 1910, [1909]; Catherine Su...

Aldin (Cecil). Cecil Aldin’s Letter Book series, 6 parts (complete), [1921], a complete set, all with colour illustrations, original pictorial wra...

Alphabet book. Baby’s Linen Alphabet Book with Large Full Page Pictures in Colours, Frederick Warne, [1903], duotone title-page, twenty-four full-...

Barrie (J.M.). Peter Pan Picture Cards, by Flora White, n.p., c.1914, twenty cards (complete), each with a colour illustration by Flora White on t...

Blyton (Enid). Mary Mouse and the Dolls” House; More Adventures of Mary Mouse; Little Mary Mouse Again; Hallo, Little Mary Mouse; Mary Mouse and H...

Brunhoff (Jean de). Histoire de Babar le Petit Elephant, 1st edition, 1st issue, Paris, 1931, 1st issue without list of titles and without elephan...

Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, “Lewis Carroll”). Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing, Oxford: Emberlin, 1890 [but later], comprising 40...

Dulac (Edmund, illust.). Stories from the Arabian Nights, Retold by Laurence Housman, 1907, fifty tipped-in colour plates, a few faint spots to ti...

Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, 1931, half-title (with 1.5” closed tear in fore-margin neatly repair...

Grahame (Kenneth). The Wind in the Willows, 38th edition, Methuen, 1931, b and w illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, occasional light spotting to ...

Lang (Andrew, ed.). The Violet Fairy Book, New Impression, Longmans, Green and Co., 1933, colour frontispiece, further illustrations throughout, p...

Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 2nd edition, 1924; Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926; Now We Are Six, 1927; The House At Pooh Corner, 1928, 1st edition...

Milne (A.A.). Winnie-the-Pooh, 1st edition, Methuen, 1926, numerous illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, pictorial endpapers lightly foxed and brow...

Milne (A.A.). The House at Pooh Corner, 1st edition, Methuen, 1928, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, half-title with contemporary ink inscription at...

Milne (A.A.). When We Were Very Young, 7th edition [1st deluxe edition], Methuen, 1925, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, title-page with circular in...

Nicholson (William). An Almanac of Twelve Sports, Words by Rudyard Kipling, 1898, 12 colour woodblock plates, some offset to text leaves facing, s...

Peake (Mervyn, illust.). Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes, 1st edition, 1st issue, Chatto and Windus, 1940, first issue (without the ded...

Perpetua Press. Fifteen Old Nursery Rhymes with New Linocuts by Biddy Darlow, Bristol, 1935, sixteen full-page hand-coloured linocuts, untrimmed, ...