Shop antiquarian books on “Children's Books”

Photo of "Jessy Allan, the lame girl: ..."

KENNEDY, Grace. Jessy Allan, the lame girl: a story founded on facts. Edinburgh. William Oliphant and Son, 1842. Tenth edition. 12mo. 107pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, lightly marked. Ticket of McWatters, bookseller and stationer of Armagh to FEP, near contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP, foxed. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 26270

[ROSEWARNE'S NEW JUVENILE LIBRARY]. Jack horner. Belper. Printed at J. Rosewarne's Publication Warehouse, [s.d., c. 1840s] 12mo. [8]pp. Original publisher's yellow pictorial wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26056

Photo of "Instructive narratives for young persons, ..."

DYMOND, Henry. Instructive narratives for young persons, members of the society of friends. London. Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1825. First edition. 12mo. iv, 163pp, [1]. Original publisher's red roan-backed marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed, spine sunned. Loss to foot of leaf N6 - touching text, without loss of sense, a trifle dusty. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28567

DYMOND, Henry. Instructive narratives for young persons, members of the society of friends. London. Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1825. First edition. 12mo. iv, 163pp, [1]. Original publisher's red roan-backed marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed. Inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP: Henry Birkbeck / from his aunt / Lydia A. Barclay', very occasional light spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 28394

Photo of "Industry and idleness, a pleasing ..."

BELSON, Mary. Industry and idleness, a pleasing and instructive tale for good little girls, in words not exceeding two syllables. London. Printed by William Darton, Jun., 1816. New edition, corrected. 12mo. 60pp, [4]. With an engraved folding frontispiece and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Later restitched into original publisher's printed buff wrappers. Extremities worn an soiled, loss to spine, small hole to upper panel. Near contemporary inked ownership inscription of W. Marshall Parkins to head of title, scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 27104

[INDULGENCE]. Indulgence: A Tale for Youth. Glasgow. Printed for Richard Griffin & Co., 1826. First edition. 12mo. iv, 184, 4pp. With an engraved frontispiece and two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green printed paper boards, recently expertly rebacked. Inked gift inscription to FFEP, lightly spotted. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 23231

Photo of "Il favoleggiatore italiano, ossia raccolta ..."

FABRE, L. Il favoleggiatore italiano, ossia raccolta di favole scelte in prosa... Londra [i.e. London]. Presso Dulau e Co., 1832. 12mo. xi, [1], 95pp, [1]. With a half-title and a folding table. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep. Rubbed, spine worn, corners exposed. Scattered spotting. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 29132

Photo of "Hoyle's games improved: Being practical ..."

HOYLE, [Edmond]. Hoyle's games improved: Being practical Treatises on the following Fashionable Games, viz. Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. London. Printed for T. Wood, 1779. 12mo. xi, [1], 216pp. Contemporary sheep. Heavily worn, loss to spine, lightly marked, corners exposed. Small worm-track to foot of gutter running throughout text-block, ink stains to verso of terminal leaf and rear endpapers. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 33049

[CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY]. Home record for the young. London. Seeleys et al., 1853. 12mo. 62pp. With an engraved frontispiece, two engraved full- page illustrations in the text, and three pages of musical notation. Original publisher's patterned paper wrappers, black paper lettering-piece to upper wrapper. Loss to backstrip, upper wrapper, FFEP, and frontispiece very nearly detached. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 34224

Photo of "History of cinderella, or the ..."

[CINDERELLA]. History of cinderella, or the little glass slipper. Glasgow. Printed for the Booksellers, 1852. 12mo. 23pp, [1]. Woodcut vignette to title and a further 10 woodcut vignettes in the text. Six loose bifolia, edges uncut. A trifle creased, overall clean and crisp. More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 31329

Photo of "Histoire de whittington et de ..."

[WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT]. Histoire de whittington et de son chat.* Traduit de l'anglais par A. F. E. lépée...*History of whittington and his cat. Londres [i.e. London]. Chez W. Darton, [s.d., c. 1825] 12mo. 36pp. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved English title, and two further engraved plates. Original publisher's printed pink wrappers. Extremities marked, worn, and sunned, wrappers detached. Frontispiece and title page spotted. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24472

[TOM THUMB]. Histoire de tom pouce. London. [s.n.], 1833. First edition. 12mo. [4], 44pp. With a frontispiece and a further three plates. Original publisher's blind-ruled navy buckram, lettered in gilt to upper board. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Hinges exposed, blind-stamp of Cambridge bookbinder F. Munns to FFEP. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 28836

Photo of "Helen's babies. With some account ..."

[HABBERTON, John]. Helen's babies. With some account of their ways: innocent, droll, fascinating, roguish, mischievous, and naughty. Also, a partial record of their actions during ten days of their existence. By their latest victim, uncle harry. Glasgow. David Bryce & Son, 1877. First British edition. 8vo. [2], 183pp, [1]. Engraved title page laid-down, original publisher's pictorial upper wrapper (laid-down) bound-in. Attractively bound by Riviere & Son in later gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, T.E.G. Extremities a trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, foxed. More > £ 100.00 Antiquates Ref. 19077

Photo of "Gustavus; or, the macaw. A ..."

[FISCHER, Gottlob Eusebius]. Gustavus; or, the macaw. A story to teach children the proper value of things. London. Printed for Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1814. First edition. 12mo. 174pp, [6]. With an engraved frontispiece and three final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green roan-backed buff paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Extremities marked and worn, surface loss to spine and upper board. Hinges exposed, scattered spotting, loss and early pen-trials to RFEP. More > £ 450.00 Antiquates Ref. 27030

Photo of "Grammatical institutes; or, an easy ..."

ASH, John. Grammatical institutes; or, an easy introduction to Dr. Lowth's English Grammar: designed for the use of schools... London. Printed for Charles Dilly, 1781. New edition. 12mo. xxii, [1], 24-174pp, [6]. Contemporary blind-tooled sheep. Lightly rubbed and bumped, chipping to head of spine. Near contemporary ownership inscriptions and pen-trials of Ann and Lucy Bayliffe to endpapers and head of p.28. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 20981

[LUMSDEN, James]. Fun upon fun; or the humours of a fair. Giving a description of the curious amusements in early life: also an account of a mountebank doctor and his merry andrew. Glasgow. Sold by J. Lumsden & Son, [s.d., c. 1815] 32mo. 47pp, [1]. First and terminal leaves as pastedowns, wrappers included in pagination. With eight plates of copper engravings printed in sanguine. Original publisher's plain paper wrappers, title in manuscript to upper wrap. Very minor wear to extremities. Internally clean and crisp, a fine copy. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 19803

Photo of "Food for the young, adapted ..."

A MOTHER. Food for the young, adapted to the mental capacities of children of tender years. London. Printed by and for W. Darton, Jun., 1818. First ediiton. 12mo. [4], 176pp. With an engraved frontispiece and two further engraved plates. Original publisher's red roan-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed and bumped. Upper hinge exposed, early inked ownership inscriptions to front endpapers, scattered spotting. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 27960

Photo of "Flora's gala. Illustrated with elegant ..."

[FLORA'S GALA]. [FLAXMAN, Maria]. Flora's gala. Illustrated with elegant engravings. London. Printed for J. Harris, Successor to R. Newberry, at the Original Juvenile Library, 1808. First edition. 16mo. 16pp. With frontispiece and five further hand-coloured engraved plates depicting Flora (as a goddess) and her fairies, within detailed botanical scenes. Original printed wrappers, a little chipped and marked, some damp-staining to upper wrapper, contemporary previous owner's inscription to verso of frontispiece. More > £ 2,500.00 Antiquates Ref. 32832

CRANE, Walter. Flora's feast. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne. Cassell & Company, 1899. First edition. Quarto. 40pp, [2], 8pp. Lithographed throughout, with numerous in-text illustrations and a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, with glassine wrapper. A trifle rubbed and bumped, wrapper chipped and torn, with loss More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 31498

Photo of "Ffangs the vampire bat and ..."

HUGHES, Ted. Ffangs the vampire bat and the kiss of truth. London. Faber and Faber, 1996. First edition. Quarto. 96pp. Original publisher's black cloth boards lettered silver, with the original illustrated dustwrapper, unclipped. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Chris Riddell.
From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently dispersed; while much of her library was damaged as the result of an errant cigarette dropped by Olwyn down the back of her settee - causing a serious fire - this copy has escaped almost ... More > £ 50.00 Antiquates Ref. 29656