Children's Books, Literary Autographs, 19th & 20th Century First Editions

Barlow (Francis). Les Fables d'Esope, avec cent vingt-trois figures d'après Barlow. Collection de gravures piquantes et d'apologues ingénieux pour...

Bewick (Thomas, 1753-1828). The Mirror; or a Looking-Glass for Young People of both Sexes; To make them Wise, Good, and Happy. Consisting of A Cho...

* Biddenden Maids. Commemorative biscuit, late 18th-early 19th century?, rectangular biscuit, moulded with relief image of a pair of conjoined twi...

Conjuring. Caricatures of people with big noses, possibly German, circa 1870, 2 folding sheets, each with 5 colour lithographed caricatures of peo...

Darton (William & Son, publisher). The Wonders of the Telescope, by the author of "The Wonders of the Microscope", c.1830, 14 engraved plates, inc...

Dean and Munday. The Gamut and Time-Table, in Verse. For the Instruction of Children. By C[harlotte] Finch. Embellished with Twelve Beautiful Illu...

Erotica. The Snuff Box Portray'd, Sold in May's Buildings Covent Garden, & at ye Glob in Pater Noster-Row, July the 19 1744, pp.14 [final page mis...

Fables. Select Tales and Fables with Prudential Maxims and other Little Lessons of Morality in Prose and Verse Equally Instructive & Entertaining ...

Manuscript. An illustrated book of limericks, circa 1865, 32pp., each with large illustration and limerick beneath in brown ink, some spotting and...

Marshall (John, publisher). The Dandies' Perambulations, embellished with sixteen coloured engravings [by Robert Cruikshank], printed and sold by ...

Moveable. Moveable Shadows, by W. Newman (of "Punch"), London: Dean & Son, [1857], pictorial title, 8 tinted lithographed plates, each with a move...

Moveable. Peeps into Fairyland, a Panorama Picture Book of Fairy Stories, with an introduction by F. E. Weatherly, London: Ernest Nister & New Yor...

[Onwhyn, Thomas, illustrator]. Recollections of the Water Cure, [cover-title], circa 1860, 12 comic lithographed plates, each with humorous captio...

Paper Doll Book. Young Albert, the Roscius, Exhibited in a Series of Characters from Shakespeare and other Authors, 2nd edition, London: printed b...

Peepshow book. Dean's New Peep Show Magic Picture Book, showing wonderful & lifelike effects of real distance & space, Book I ... [cover-title], L...

Punch and Judy. As Performed Before All the Crowned Heads of Europe and the President of the United States [drop-title], London: Ernest Nister, [1...

Straw-work miniature binding. Heures Nouvelles, Dédiées A La Noblesse, Paris: Valleyre, 1787, lighty toned, marbled endpapers, reverse of free end...

Telescope (Tom, pseudonym). The Newtonian Philosophy, and Natural Philosophy in General, explained and illustrated by familiar objects, in a serie...

* Moxon (J., publisher). Geometrical Playing Cards, London, 1697, 43 (of 52) copper engraved playing cards, comprising 4 suits of 13 (French suits...

* Playing cards. A deck of playing cards, London: Rowley & Co., between 1774 & 1776, a complete deck of 52 playing cards, comprising 4 suits of 13...

* Sketchley (James, publisher). New Invented Conversation Cards, 1770, 17 (of 48 or 52?) copper engraved playing cards, each with a word to upper ...

Album. An album of flower collages, circa 1830s-1840s, 39 leaves, each with a flower collage to recto, carefully composed of cut-out pieces of pai...

* Alphabet. London Plaything, circa 1810, 26 circular bone counters, each with a black ink letter in upper case to one side repeated in lower case...

Harris (John & Wallis, John, publishers). Historical Pastime or a New Game of the History of England from the Conquest to the Accession of George ...

* Darton (W. & T., publisher). Walker's Tour through England and Wales, A New Pastime, Published for the Author, W. & T. Darton, January 2nd 1809,...

* Wain (Louis). Set of picture blocks, circa 1910, 20 colour lithographed wooden blocks, forming 6 pictures of anthropomorphic cats, mice, and fro...

Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, A Novel, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, engraved frontispiece, vignette title, and letterpress title all dated...

Austen (Jane). The Works of Jane Austen, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, 5 volumes, reprinted, London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., and New York: Macmillan...

[Bronte, Charlotte, Emily & Anne]. Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1846 [but 1848], ...

Bronte (Charlotte, "Currer Bell"). Shirley. A Tale, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1849, half-titles discarded and without 16...

Bronte (Charlotte, "Currer Bell"). Villette, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1853, half-titles discarded and without 12 pages ...

Clemens (Samuel L. "Mark Twain"). Tom Sawyer Abroad; Tom Sawyer, Detective and Other Stories, 1st edition, 1st issue, New York: Harper & Brothers,...

Collins (Wilkie). Poor Miss Finch, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1872, bound without advertisement leaf at end of volume ...

Dickens (Charles). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, with forty-three illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz, 1st edition in book form, Lo...

[Dickens, Charles]. Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz", 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, 1st issue, London: Richard Bentley...

Dickens (Charles). The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, with Illustrations by Phiz, 1st edition, early issue, London: Chapman and Hall, 1...

Dickens (Charles). Master Humphrey's Clock, 3 volumes, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41, wood-engraved frontispieces, i...

Dickens (Charles). Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty, 1st separate edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1841, illustrations by George Ca...

Dickens (Charles). American Notes for General Circulation, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1842, 1st issue with p. x misnumbered...

Dickens (Charles). The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1st edition in book form, London: Chapman and Hall, 1844, half title, etched fron...

Dickens (Charles). A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas, Sixth Edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1844, half-title printed ...

Dickens (Charles). Hard Times. For These Times, 1st edition in book form, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854, half-title, original green cloth, spine ...

Dickens (Charles). A Tale of Two Cities, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: Chapman and Hall, 1859, etched frontispiece, additional title and 14 plat...

Dickens (Charles). Little Dorrit, 1st book form edition, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates by H....

Dickens (Charles). Little Dorrit, 1st edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates by H.K. Brown...

Dickens (Charles). Our Mutual Friend, 1st edition in the original parts, London: Chapman & Hall, 1864/5, 20 monthly numbers in 19 original parts a...

Dickens (Charles). Our Mutual Friend, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Chapman and Hall, 1865, bound from the parts, half-titles, 40 engraved plate...

Dickens (Charles). A Christmas Carol: in Prose; being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1907, colour frontispiece and ad...

Dilke (Lady Emilia Francis). The Shrine of Death, 1st edition, London & New York: George Routledge, 1886, woodcut illustrations, a little minor sp...

Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, 'Lewis Carroll'). Sylvie and Bruno, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1889, illustrations by Harry Furniss, 4 pp....

Eliot (George, i.e. Marian Evans). Felix Holt the Radical, 3 volumes, 1st edition, William Blackwood, 1866, without half-titles and lacking publis...

Fenn (George Manville). George Alfred Henty. The Story of an Active Life, 1st edition, London: Blackie and Son, [1907], portrait frontispiece, 10 ...

[Fitzgerald, Edward]. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse, 3rd edition, London: Bernard Quaritch,...

Frend (William). Evening Amusements; or, The Beauty of the Heavens Displayed. In which several striking appearances, to be observed on various eve...

Haggard (H. Rider). Maiwa's Revenge; or the War of the Little Hand, 1888; Mr. Meeson's Will, 1888; Montezuma's Daughter, 1893; The People of the M...

Hardy (Thomas). Wessex Novels, 17 volumes, London: Osgood, Mcilvaine and Co., 1895-97, etched frontispiece to each, a little light marginal toning...

Henty (G.A.) The March to Magdala, 1st edition, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1868, lacking rear free endpaper, a little minor spotting, front hinge b...

Henty (G.A.) The Young Franc-Tireurs and their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War, 1st edition, London: Griffith and Farran, 1872, 8 wood-engra...

Henty (G.A.) The March to Coomassie, 1st edition, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874, a few light fingermarks and spots, previous owner signature at h...

Henty (G.A.) Friends Though Divided. A Tale of the Civil War, 1st edition, London: Griffith & Farran, 1883, 8 wood-engraved plates, 32 pp. adverti...