Modern Literature & First Editions, Children's, Private Press & Illustrated Books

Austen (Jane). [The Novels], illustrated by Hugh Thomson and Charles E. Brock, 5 volumes, London: Macmillan and Co., reprinted 1899-1901, Pride an...

* [Dickens, Charles]. Ticket for Charles Dickens's Final Readings, 1870, printed in black on pink card, giving the purchaser entry to a public rea...

Dickens (Charles). The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1870, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved additional ti...

Dumas (Alexandre). The Count of Monte Christo, 3 volumes, Belfast: Simms and McIntyre, 1846, [2] 400, [2] 5-448, [2] 5-464, signatures [pi]2 A-2B8...

[Lacombe, Jacques]. Encyclope?die me?thodique: Dictionnaire des Jeux, faisant suite au Tome III des Mathe?matiques, Paris: Panckoucke, 1792, 16 en...

Melville (Herman). White Jacket; or, the World in a Man-of-War, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1850, a few minor spots and pale ...

Reid (Captain Mayne). Croquet, 1st edition, London: Charles James Skeet, 1863, frontispiece (a few light spots), original limp pinkish-orange bead...

Rossetti (Christina G.) Time Flies: A Reading Diary, 1st edition, 1885, 4 pp. advertisements at end, a little light spotting front and rear, all e...

Rossetti (Christina G.) Goblin Market and Other Poems, 2nd edition, 1865, frontispiece and title illustration by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, contempor...

Twain (Mark). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, half-title, wood-engraved fro...

* Alphabet. A set of pictorial alphabet tiles, c. 1830s, 22 wooden tiles, lacking 'H' and 'W', each with a large letter (or two) on 1 side, the ot...

* Bone dice. Nine Georgian bone dice, 18th century, each with duty stamp GR below a crown on the 6 pip side, most stamps with some red ink remaini...

Broadside puzzles. Nuts to Crack, Parts VII-XI, XX, London: R. Macdonald , circa 1840s, a collection of 6 printed broadsides, with a variety of wo...

* Jigsaw. History of England, Paris: H. Rousseau, after 1853, three hand-coloured lithographed jigsaws, printed on paper laid down on wood, depict...

* Moveable cards. A set of French caricature cards, circa 1820s-30s, 9 cards (of 10?) each depicting a hand-coloured engraved figure, with a movab...

* Paper dolls. Our Favorite Dolls, New York: A. T. Co.'s Paper Doll Series, circa 1890s, a large chromolithographed paper doll, comprising a cut-o...

* Peepshow. Lane's Telescopic View of the Interior of the Great Industrial Exhibition, London: C. Moody, 1851, 10 hand-coloured lithographed divis...

* Playing Cards. Proverbial Cards, [John Lenthall], between 1718 & 1744, a complete set of 52 playing cards with French suits, each copper engrave...

* Playing cards. An album of whist and bridge score cards, early-later 20th century, approximately 450 colour-printed cards (and a few printed inv...

* Playing cards. Fairy Legend Misfitz , London: Faulkner, circa 1910, 72 chromolithographed cards comprising 24 sets of 3, each set forming a char...

* Playing cards. Deutsches Kriegsquartett, Germany: Westdeutscher Jünglingsbund Barmen, [1916], 60 cards comprising 15 sets of 4, complete, each w...

* Schimmell. The Game of Schimmell, or Bell & Hammer, London: J. Buckland, Jany. 1, 1816, boxed game, comprising: five hand-coloured aquatint card...

* The Changing Companions. Comic Metamorphosis, [G. W. Faber], circa 1850s, 10 (of 12) hand-coloured lithographed figures, each laid on wood and d...

The Speaking Toybook. Reproducing the Voices of the Cock, the Goat, the Cat, the Bird, the Lamb and the Cuckoo, Dedicated to all Children by One W...

* Toy Theatre. Urania Theatre, late 19th century, a toy theatre of wooden construction, with colour lithographed front facade featuring a pediment...

* Educational Aide. The Musical Dial, Woodbridge, Suffolk: W. Barker, early 19th century, circular card volvelle, outer case with small square ape...

* Erotica. A trinket box, circa 1810-1820, circular brass coaster, with pierced rim, top inset with gathered and twisted leather forming a closure...

* Straw work. A pocket book, early 19th century, scarlet morocco wallet-style pocketbook with elaborate coloured straw work to sides and flap, upp...

* Valentines. A hand-made valentine, circa 1790, small hand-coloured engraving of a courting couple within gilt border pasted on to an album leaf ...

Bible; hieroglyphic. A New Hieroglyphical Bible, for the Amusement and Instruction of Children: being a Selection of the most Useful Lessons and m...

Chapbooks. The History of Sir Richard Whittington and His Cat, printed for R. Spence, Bookseller in High Ousegate, circa 1780s, pp.31, first leaf ...

[Cooper, James Fenimore]. The Water Witch; or the Skimmer of the Seas. A Tale, 3 volumes, 1st UK edition, 1830, advertisements front and rear of v...

Crystal Palace. The Great Glass House Opend; or The Exhibition Wot Is ! ! With a good deal of what isn't - but what ought to have been. - The fron...

Crystal Palace. The Great Exhibition " Wot is to Be", probable results of the industry of all nations in the year '51. Showing what is to be exhib...

Crystal Palace. Lane's Telescopic View of the Interior of the Great Industrial Exhibition, London: C. Moody, 1851, 10 hand-coloured lithographed d...

Defoe (Daniel). The Wonderful Life, and Surprizing Adventures of that Renowned Hero, Robinson Crusoe, who lived Twenty-eight Years on an Uninhabit...

Educational. The Golden Primer, Part I [and Part II], by Professor J. M. D. Meiklejohn, illustrated by Walter Crane, 2 parts in one, London & Edin...

Feminism. The Old Man Who Lived in a Wood, Illustrated by JFM , Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, [1852], ff.8, full-page etched illustrations throu...

Follit (W., publisher). Punch's Locomotive Picture Gallery, circa 1840, hand-coloured lithograph on thick paper sheet, depicting Mr. Punch and acc...

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Manuscript . Merry Elves, circa 1870, story booklet containing eight pen & ink drawings, with traces of pencil, on card rectos, with accompanying ...

[Martin, Sarah Catherine]. The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog, 1st edition, London: J. Harris, June 1, 1805, 16 engraved unnum...

Miniature books. A collection of miniature books published by the Lilliput Press, 1985-1991, twelve volumes, each with illustrations, some hand-co...

Moveable. A Day in the Zoo, Realistic Pictures of the Birds Beasts and Fishes, a Stand up Toybook, London: H. Grevel, circa 1900, eight board leav...

Moveable. Neues Verwandlungs -Bilderbuch, Esslingen: J. F. Schreiber, [1875], six chromolithographed plates, by W. von Breitschwert, each with a l...

* Moveables & Transformation Pictures. "March! March! citizen, countryman", a moveable comic Valentine, circa 1870, hand-coloured lithograph depic...

Newbery (Francis, publisher). The Compleat Horseman; or, the Art of Riding made Easy: illustrated by Rules drawn from Nature and confirmed by Expe...

Newbery (J., publisher). Plutarch 's Lives, abridged from the original Greek, illustrated with notes and reflections, 7 volumes, London: J. Newbur...

[Nicol, George]. The Story of the Three Bears, 1st separate edition, London: Porter and Wright, 1837, half-title, vignette title, and eleven engra...

Paper doll book. Cinderella; or The Little Glass Slipper: beautifully versified and illustrated with figures, London: printed for S. and J. Fuller...

Paper doll book. The History of Little Fanny, 4th edition, 1810, 7 cut-out hand-coloured figures in aquatint loosely inserted, with original inter...

Swiss costume. Collection des costumes de la Suisse et de ses pays limitrophes, Zurich: Keller et Fussli, circa 1820, decorative hand-coloured aqu...

Whittingham (C., printer). The Village Orphan; A Tale for Youth. To which is added the Basket-Maker, an original fragment, Longman and Rees, [1797...

* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Typescript for a short story, 'News for Noddy and Big-Ears. Story for TV Times Annual', circa 1956, title and six page...

* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, 'Enid Blyton', Green Hedges letterhead of Enid Blyton, 24 June 1947, to Mr Holbrow, concernin...

* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, 'Enid Blyton', Green Hedges letterhead, 23 August 1947, to Mr Holbrow, thanking him for sendi...

* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, 'Enid Blyton', Green Hedges letterhead, 4 June 1949, to Mr Holbrow, 'I was pleased to see you...

* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, 'Enid Blyton', Green Hedges letterhead, 21 June, no year, circa 1950s, to Mr Howe, thanking h...

* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, 'Enid Blyton', letter of Hotel Grosvenor, Swanage, Dorset, 23 October 1950, to Mr Holbrow, 'Y...

* Blyton (Enid, 1897-1968). Autograph letter signed, 'Enid Blyton', Green Hedges letterhead, 19 July 1952, to Mr Holbrow, largely concerning Blyto...