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...

* Cotta (Johann Freidrich, publisher). Karten-Almanach, Germany: Tubingen, 1805, complete deck of 52 stipple-engraved transformation playing cards...

* 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 ...

* Spanish playing cards. A deck of playing cards, Barcelona: Torras Y Sanmartí, 1831, forty-eight wood engraved cards with stencilled colouring (c...

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 ...

* Harris (John, Publisher). Geographical Recreation, or A Voyage Round the Habitable Globe, Publish'd Octr. 1st 1809, hand-coloured engraving sect...

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

* Slavery. A scissor cut, circa 1820s-1830s, black paper scissor cut, depicting a slave holding up his chains standing beneath a large palm tree o...

* Trades & Pastimes. A collection of leaves with hand-drawn illustrations, circa 1832, 10ff., each with 10 pen, ink and watercolour illustrations ...

* Trades. The Yankee Trader, or the Laughable Game of What d'Ye Buy? By Doctor Busby, circa 1860, boxed game (complete), comprising: 12 hand-colou...

* Potter (Beatrix). A collection of books and games, early-mid 20th century, including an early Peter Rabbit's race game, complete with folding bo...

* Worshipful Company of Playing Cards. A collection of 82 packs of commemorative playing cards, issued by the Worshipful Company of Playing Cards,...

* Dolls. A pair of rare Docken dolls, Germany, mid 19th century, 2 brightly painted carved wooden dolls, with loosely hinged swinging legs, the bo...

* Dolls. A primitive wooden doll on plinth, possibly South American, 19th century, painted carved wood female figurine, with black hair, and out-s...

* Dean's Rag Books. A to Z [cover-title], edited by S. Berkeley, number 190, c.1910s, 8 folded cloth leaves (including wrappers), printed in colou...

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

* Dolls. A bisque head doll, French, early 20th century, composition character doll with articulated limbs, bisque head impressed 'SFBJ 60 Paris',...

* Steiff. Grizzly Ted, 2004, caramel tipped mohair teddy bear, with swivel head and jointed limbs, ear button and label, with operational tilt gow...

* Teddy Bears. A Chiltern teddy bear, 1930s, teddy bear of golden mohair, with slight hump, swivel head and jointed limbs, glass eyes with big bla...

* Teddy Bears. A Terrys-type teddy bear, English, 1920s/30s, large teddy bear of golden mohair, with slight hump, swivel head and jointed limbs, g...

* Teddy Bears. An early teddy bear, probably British, 1930s, teddy bear of golden mohair, with hump, swivel head and jointed limbs, orange and bla...

* Teddy Bears. An early teddy bear, probably British, 1930s, teddy bear of blonde mohair, with swivel head and jointed limbs, orange and black gla...

* Teddy Bears. An early teddy bear, probably British, 1930s, teddy bear of golden mohair, with swivel head and jointed limbs, orange and black gla...

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 ...