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(Children's Books) Moon, Marjorie BENJAMIN TABART'S JUVENILE LIBRARY, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS FOR CHILDREN PUBLISHED, WRITTEN, EDITED AND SOLD BY MR. TABART, 1801-1820.
Winchester St Paul's Bibliographies 1990 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 180 pages.
First edition. In the early nineteenth century the prevailing influence in children's books was the promotion of morality, coupled with instruction, and fairy-tales and such-like improper subjects were widely discouraged. So Benjamin Tabart showed no little courage when, within three years of opening his Juvenile Library in Bond Street, he launched out into the publication of a series of well-produced fairy-tales and nursery stories.
During his short publishing career, he continued to provide children's bookshelves with light-hearted, attractive-looking books for which he employed excellent artists and some of the best children's writers of the day. Many of his publications are now very scarce, but Marjorie Moon has recorded about a hundred and ninety titles (often in several editions), which have survived the hazards of nursery life. Since Mr. Tabert was not only a publisher but also a bookseller, part two of this bibliography includes other titles which he advertized as being on sale in his shop.
An introduction discussing Tabart's publishing career, his family life, and the very close connection between Tabart and the prolific publisher, Sir Richard Phillips, is included. Brian Alderson has contributed an appendix on the illustrating of two of Tabart's picture-books, and another appendix reprints William Goodwin's remarkable preface to his book of Bible stories which so horrified Mrs. Trimmer, the self-appointed critic of Georgian children's reading matter.
Slightly rubbed and bumped.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 96242

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(Children's Books) Moon, Marjorie CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF MARY (BELSON) ELLIOTT BLENDING SOUND CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES WITH CHEERFUL CULTIVATION.
Winchester St. Paul's Bibliographies 1987 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxix, 142 pages.
First edition. Mary Elliott (then Mary Belson) began writing for children in 1809, at a time when increasing literacy and wealth and more progressive understanding of the reading needs of children were creating a growing demand for more and more books for young people. Beginning with two books in verse - one a lively tale about town and country mice, the other, an anthology including many of her own poems - she went on to produce a stream of books on a variety of subjects. Her stories, some eventful and exciting, were mostly about real children learning to tackle the everyday circumstances and difficulties which they encountered in the world around them.
These books were made all the more attractive by her publisher, William Darton, who provided them with entertaining illustrations, many of them interesting today for their depiction of contemporary scenes and fashions. Mary Elliott's books soon spread across the Atlantic, and American publishers reissued many of them, sometimes adapting the text to local circumstances. Although her books are now forgotten, they cannot be disregarded by researchers into the history of childhood and of children's literature. This bibliography contains about 470 entries, detailing not only each known edition of her books but also the picture-sheets, reward cards and combined volumes of assorted tales and verses.
Price: $ 28.00 other currencies Order nr. 26560

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(Children's Books) Muir, Percy ENGLISH CHILDREN'S BOOKS, 1600 TO 1900
London B.T. Batsford Ltd. (1985) small 4to. boards, dust jacket. 256 pages.
Fourth impression of the first edition. Contains the new introduction printed for the third impression revising parts of the book. 106 illustrations, including some in color. Embossed private library stamp on free endpaper.
Price: $ 9.00 other currencies Order nr. 35048

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(Children's Books) Rosenbach, A.S.W. EARLY AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS
New York Dover Publications (1971) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. ix, 356, (8) pages.
First Dover paperback edition. Contains a delightful foreword by A. Edward Newton followed by bibliographical descriptions of American children's books dating from the 17th to the 19th century. Spine faded.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 2938

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(Children's Books) Rosenbach, A.S.W. EARLY AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS WITH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE BOOKS IN HIS PRIVATE COLLECTION.
Foreword by A. Edward Newton. New York Kraus Reprint Corp. 1966 tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. lx, 355 pages.
Reprint of the 1933 first edition. Many illustrations. Plates in black and white.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 13928

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(Children's Books) Rosenbach, A.S.W. EARLY AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS WITH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE BOOKS IN HIS PRIVATE COLLECTION.
Foreword by A. Edward Newton. Storrs-Mansfield Maurizio Martino Publisher n.d. but 1996 8vo. cloth. lx, 355 pages.
Reprint of the 1933 first edition. Limited to 150 copies. Many illustrations and 816 books described. Arranged chronologically, each work is collated and annotated. Plates in black-and-white.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 53269

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(Children's Books) SCIENCE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CHILDREN'S BOOKS.
Chicago Univ. of Chicago 1966 small 8vo.. stiff paper wrappers, stapled. (18) pages.
There are 100 books described in this exhibition catalogue.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 27650

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(Children's Books) St. John, Judith OSBORNE COLLECTION OF EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS, 1566-1910 A CATALOGUE. With THE OSBORNE COLLECTION OF EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS, 1476-1910, A CATALOGUE, VOLUME II.
Two volumes. With an Introduction by Edgar Osborne. Toronto Toronto Public Library 1975 8vo. cloth. xxvi,562; xiv,563-1148 pages.
First volume is a slightly revised edition and second volume is the first edition. Essential reference tool in the study of children's literature.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 14323

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(Children's Books) Tenny, Dana and Jill Shefrin TRADE & PLUMB-CAKE FOR EVER HUZZA! 18TH CENTURY FARE, AN EXHIBITION.
Toronto Osborne Collection (1985) 4to. paper wrappers. (ii), 29 pages.
Introduction by Margaret Crawford Maloney. Typescript. Bookplate of Doris Frohnsdorff loosely inserted.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 26742

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(Children's Books) Welch, D'Alte A. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS PRINTED PRIOR TO 1821.
N.P. American Antiquarian Society 1972 tall 8vo. cloth. lxvi, 516 pages.
First edition. Full descriptions of over 1000 books. Excellent reference tool.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 54328

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(Children's Books) Welch, D'Alte A. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS PRINTED PRIOR TO 1821.
N.P. American Antiquarian Society 1972 7.5 x 10.25 inches cloth. 522 pages
First edition. Full descriptions of over 1000 books. Excellent reference tool.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 25465

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Cope, Peter & Dawn DEAN'S RAG BOOKS & RAG DOLLS
London New Cavindish Books 2008 4to Cloth, dust jacket 255 pages
Peter Cope trained as a graphic designer at the Central School of Art & Design in the 1960s and during that time became interested in the late-19th and 20th century book illustration. His career in design has spanned forty years, during which time he created corporate identities of many national and international organizations and taught typography in universities and art colleges around the United Kingdom. He is not focusing on writing and designing books.

Dawn Cope's love and literature and sense of history was instilled into her at an early age. Memories of books read in her formative years, an interst in illustration and a spell as a book dealer led to a fascination for researching the lives and backgrounds of children's book illustrators. In 1980 their collection of children's illustrated postcards, and ephemera went on display at the Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green. 20 years later, in 2000, they produced Postcards from the Nursery which chronicles children's postcards published between 1900 and 1940, accompanied by short biographies of many popular children's artists.

In 2001 the opportunity arose to research the now dispersed archive of the Dean's Rag Book Company with the kind permission of its owners Neil Miller and his wife Barbara. As well as manufacture's samples of rag books and toys, they found in the collection original contracts, catalogues, ephemeral leaflets and scrap books full of contemporary cuttings revealing the acclaim with which rag books were received in their heyday by the press and public alike.

In this volume and its accompanying DVD, Peter and Dawn record in detail the fascinating range of over 350 Dean's Rag Books published before World War II, created by some of the best-loved artists of the day, along with Dean's 'Knockabout Toy Scheets' and around 2500 toys and dolls from the same period.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 101939

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(Crawhall, Joseph) Felver, Charles S. JOSEPH CRAWHALL, THE NEWCASTLE WOOD ENGRAVER (1821-1896).
Newcastle upon Tyne Frank Graham n.d. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 144 pages.
First edition. With a list of books illustrated by Crawhall. Loosely inserted commemorative booklabel indicates that this copy came from the reference library of Deval and Muir. Jacket age yellowed.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 27486

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Darton, Lawrence. THE DARTONS: AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS ISSUED BY TWO PUBLISHING HOUSES 1787-1876.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2004 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 709 pages.
First edition. In 1787, William Darton began engraving and printing children's books. Over the next 60 years, his firm printed over 1,000 books for young people. In 1804, a separate firm of Darton was founded by William's oldest son. They published over 1,600 children's titles. The work contains the details and bibliography of both Darton firms and an index of their artists and engravers. This work is a major reference source on juvenilia and the early history of children's books. The author is the great-great-great-grandson of William Darton. There are seventy illustrations in this work. Jacket with snag in front cover.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 97950

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(Ewing, Juliana Horatia) Gatty, Horatia K.F. JULIANA HORATIA EWING AND HER BOOKS.
With a Portrait by George Reid, 16 illustrations from Sketches by J.H. Ewing and a Cover Designed by Randolph Caldecott. London Society for the Promoting Christian Knowledge 1885 square 8vo. original boards. 88 pages.
A biographical discussion of Juliana Ewing, the celebrated children's book author. A complete list of Ewing's publications is included in the back of the book. Spine covering lacking.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 8882

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Farren, Donald and August A. Imholtz, Jr. (editors) THE BALTIMORE BIBLIOPHILES AT FIFTY, 1954-2004.
With "Children's Books in Bygone Baltimore" An essay and a catalogue by Linda F. Lapides Baltimore The Baltimore Bibliophiles 2009 6 x 9 inches hardcover 176 pages
With this volume the Baltimore Bibliophiles celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their founding, demonstrating the flourishing of bibliophily in Baltimore and the vigor of the organization. Included in the book are an account and a catalogue of early children's books in Baltimore by Linda F. Lapides. A separate section presents the historical record of the organization.
In 1954 two remarkably learned and energetic women, Dorothy E. Miner, of the Walters Art Gallery, and Elizabeth Baer, of the Garrett Library at Evergreen House, founded the Baltimore Bibliophiles. Since then the club has met regularly to share fellowship in support of (in the words of its constitution) "matters pertaining to books and manuscripts and the collecting thereof, bookbindings, typography, printing, paper, calligraphy, prints and book illustration, maps, and aspects of the book arts such as bookbinding, book conservation, book design and related fields" and to hear papers, scholarly and entertaining, delivered by Baltimoreans and experts from afield.

The book contains historical accounts of the club, an interview with P. William Filby -- recurrent speaker at meetings of the club and the only person to serve twice non-consecutively as president, an interview with newspaperman and longtime member, James H. Bready, lists of members, meetings, and publications, the constitution of the club, and a list of the subscribers to the publication of the book.

The section "Children's Books in Bygone Baltimore," which occupies two-thirds of the book, demonstrates the collecting of children's books in Baltimore. An essay by Linda F. Lapides, "For Amusement and Instruction," is the first sustained account of books published for and read by children in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Baltimore. It is accompanied by a fully annotated narrative catalogue of 135 items in the distinguished collection of Baltimore children's books that Linda F. Lapides and her husband, Julian L. Lapides, have assembled. The essay includes a bibliographical record of the development of the collection, and the catalogue is provided with indexes of authors and associated persons, of titles, and of printers, publishers, and booksellers.

This book is a contribution both to the history of bibliophile organizations in the United States and to scholarship on early children's books in America.

The book contains 16 black-and-white photographs of children's books in the catalogue, 3 portrait photographs of principal members of the Baltimore Bibliophiles, Dorothy E. Miner, Elizabeth Baer, and P. William Filby, and -- as a color frontispiece -- the illustration of Baltimore's Washington Monument that appears on the cover of a copybook published ca. 1840 in Baltimore.

Linda F. Lapides, life-long resident of Baltimore, is a former librarian at the Enoch Pratt Free Library and longtime collector of children's books published in and associated with Baltimore. Donald Farren is a retired librarian and author of a new introduction to the Oak Knoll Press reprint of Geoffrey Ashall Glaister's Encyclopedia of the Book (1996, 2001). August A. Imholtz, Jr., was president of the Baltimore Bibliophiles, 2006-2008.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 101279

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Fenn, Patricia & Alfred P Malpa REWARDS OF MERIT, TOKENS OF A CHILD'S PROGRESS AND A TEACHER'S ESTEEM AS AN ENDURING ASPECT OF AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR EDUCATION.
N.P. Ephemera Society of America (1994) oblong 8vo. quarter leather, separate portfoliio, inserted in slipcase. 224 pages.
One of 175 special copies bound thus, numbered and signed by the authors, and containing two medals mounted in the front cover (not present in this copy). Also contains a separate portfolio of reproductions of rewards. This copy is not numbered but is signed by all four participants.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 52079

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Fenn, Patricia & Alfred P. Malpa REWARDS OF MERIT, TOKENS OF A CHILD'S PROGRESS AND A TEACHER'S ESTEEM AS AN ENDURING ASPECT OF AMERICAN RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR EDUCATION.
N.P. The Ephemera Society of America (1994) oblong 8vo. quarter leather. 224 pages.
One of 175 special copies bound thus and signed by the authors. This copy is not numbered and thus out of series. No accompanying portfolio and no metal dies inserted in front cover as called for.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 73856

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(Greenaway, Kate) Engen, Rodney KATE GREENAWAY, A BIOGRAPHY.
London MacDonald Future Publishers (1981) small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 240 pages.
First edition. The author worked for over five years on researching this biography, using much unpublished correspondence and interviews with surviving friends and relations. He has also uncovered many unpublished illustrations. Includes an annotated list of Greenaway books. With 121 illustrations in black-and-white and 15 in color. SALES RIGHTS: Available in North & South America from Oak Knoll Books.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 27171

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(Greenaway, Kate) KATE GREENAWAY, ILLUSTRATOR OF CHILDHOOD, A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, DRAWINGS AND RELATED ITEMS.
Gaithersburg, MD Doris Frohnsdorff (1979) small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (92) pages
Catalogue 23 issued by Doris Frohnsdorff, 1979, containing 371 items devoted exclusively to the British illustrator Kate Greenaway (1846-1901), who was prominent among those who revolutionized children's picture books in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Many illustrations, a portrait photo as frontispiece, and a pictorial cover.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 69653

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(Greenaway, Kate) Thomson, Susan Ruth KATE GREENAWAY, A CATALOGUE OF THE KATE GREENAWAY COLLECTION, RARE BOOK ROOM, DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Detroit Friends of the Detroit Public Library 1977 tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 211+(1) pages.
First edition. Full bibliographical descriptions given. Illustrated.
Price: $ 22.00 other currencies Order nr. 55768

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Lear, Edward THE AKOND OF SWAT.
Together with Appendix Akondiana. Berkeley, CA (Ian Jackson) 1997 oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 60, (4) pages.
Issued as a New Year's gift by Ian Jackson. Illustrated by Ann Arnold and containing an essay by Jackson.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 107976

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(Longman) Briggs, Asa (editor) ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF PUBLISHING IN CELEBRATION OF THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HOUSE OF LONGMAN, 1724-1974.
London Longman (1974) tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 468 pages.
First edition. History of the firm and 11 other essays including ones on the paperback and the Victorian contribution to Children's literature. Lettering on spine of jacket is faded.
Price: $ 12.00 other currencies Order nr. 1600

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Lucas, Anna FRANZ POCCI UND DAS KINDERBUCH
Mit einer Bearbeitung der Schattenspiele. Münster i. W. Regensbergsche Buchhandlung und Buchdruckerei 1929 8vo. cloth (x), 92 pages
Written in German. With a foreword, introduction, bibliography, conclusion, index of literature, and other supplements. With 16 black-and-white illustrations. A biography and analysis of Franz Pocci, the German poet, artist, and playwright, noted for his work with the Munich Marionette Theatre. Minor soiling and wear, spine faded with a small stain near the middle.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 100658

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(Lumsden & Son) Roscoe, S. and R.A. Brimmell JAMES LUMSDEN & SON OF GLASGOW, THEIR JUVENILE BOOKS AND CHAPBOOKS.
Pinner Private Library Association 1981 tall 8vo. cloth. xxv, 134 pages.
First edition. Little information regarding the firm of James Lumsden and Son has survived. It seems they first became interested in publishing books for children around the end of the eighteenth century. Although the firm attracted little notice in their own age, their juvenile books have now become collector's pieces.
Lumsden books show a distinctive quality: it is not easy to define and does not hold in all cases, but these books are easily recognizable to the experienced eye. It is a certain trimness (primness one might almost call it) in the covers, the quality of the paper used, the excellent typeface and the occasional use of colored inks. This important reference book contains 172 lengthy bibliographical descriptions of these fascinating books. There is also an historical introduction which describes the type of books published by this intriguing firm. Available in North and South America; other areas from the Private Library Association.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 13701

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