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Adomeit, Ruth Elizabeth THREE CENTURIES OF THUMB BIBLES; A CHECKLIST.
New York Garland Publishing 1980 8vo. cloth. xl, 390 pages.
First edition. This excellent bibliography gives much information about miniature Bibles printed from the 17th to the 19th century in America, England, and Europe. The book is the work of a collector who has brought together much information not available elsewhere. Descriptions are extensive and include size, binding, contents, illustrations, other notes, references to other bibliographies where they exist, and locations for known copies. An essential reference book for collectors of children's books (children were the primary audience for these works), miniature books, and publishing history.
Price: $ 152.00 other currencies Order nr. 24398

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(Biblio novel) Jacobs, Paul Samuel JAMES PRINTER, A NOVEL OF REBELLION
New York Scholastic Press (1997) 8vo. dust jacket, boards (iv), 220 pages
First edition. Juvenile fictional novel set in the 1600's in a printing office.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 105345

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(Children's Books) FROM FREDDIE & GEORGE
Basel Erasmushaus, Haus der Bücher n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 128 pages
Text in German. Catalogue of 570 books from the 16th and 17th centuries covering Botany, Zoology, Architecture, Gardening, Medicine and Pharmacy, Science, Technology, Art Literature, Costumes, Topography, illustrated children's books and Juvenile fiction. Beautifully illustrated rear cover from item 482. A few scattered stains on front cover, light discoloration of spine, mild wear to edges.
Price: $ 17.50 other currencies Order nr. 91939

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(Children's Books) Hurlimann, Bettina EUROPÄISCHE KINDERBÜCHER IN DREI JAHRHUNDERTEN.
Zürich Atlantis Verlag (1963) 8vo. cloth, leather cover label, dust jacket 247 pages.
Second Swiss edition of Hurlimann's study of European children's books. Jacket rubbed.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 78086

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(Children's Books) James, Philip CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF YESTERDAY
London The Studio 1933 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (iv), 128 pages.
First edition. A special issue of The Studio. Profusely illustrated guide to the study of children's books of the 18th through 20th centuries. Some illustrations are in color. Jacket is chipped around edges with tears along back hinge.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 3779

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(Children's Books) LES LIVRES DE L'ENFANCE DU XVE AU XIXE SIECLE.
2 volumes. London The Holland Press (1985) 4to. cloth, dust jackets. xxiv,446; 16 pages followed by 336 full page plates.
A very fine facsimile reprint of the first edition of this landmark catalogue first issued by Gumuchian & Cie in 1930. Over 6000 books listed. With the bookplate of the noted miniature book collector, Kathryn Rickard and with a note on the free endpaper concerning miniature books in this catalogue. Wear along edge of back cover of jacket of volume two.
Price: $ 76.00 other currencies Order nr. 3085

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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 (Fleck D.31.D). 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 (Fleck D.31.C.1b). 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) 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) 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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(Children's Books) YANKEE DOODLE'S LITERARY SAMPLER OF PROSE POETRY, AND PICTURES; BEING AN ANTHOLOGY OF DIVERSE WORKS PUBLISHED FOR THE EDIFICATION AND - OR ENTERTAINMENT OF YOUNG READERS IN AMERICA BEFORE 1900.
New York Crowell (1974) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 467 pages.
First edition. Selections are from the Rare Book Collection of the Library of Congress. Jacket chipped and soiled.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 3643

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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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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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Hodnett, Edward AESOP IN ENGLAND, THE TRANSMISSION OF MOTIFS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (1979) 8vo. cloth. x, 163 pages.
First edition. Traces the development of the 199 designs used in versions of Aesop that were illustrated by Wenceslaus Hollar and Francis Barlow. The introduction discusses design motifs in the illustration of Aesop's Fables their sources and transmission, and major seventeenth-century English editions. Includes a bibliography of Aesop editions and emblem books.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 53828

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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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(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.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 60407

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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. With the Randeria bookplate.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 71598

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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. Covers faded.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 114250

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(McManus, Blanche) Watts, Rev. Isaac CHILDHOOD'S SONGS OF LONG AGO, BEING SOME OF THE DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS WRIT BY REV. ISAAC WATTS, D.D..
With Picturings by Blanche McManus. New York E.R. Herrick & Company (1897) 8vo. original printed cloth 87 pages
Verses published in the early part of the eighteenth century now delightfully illustrated by Blanche McManus. Black-and-white frontispiece, black-and-white illustrations. Some soiling of covers. Shaken.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 106111

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Newbery, John LITTLE PRETTY POCKET-BOOK. A FACSIMILE WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY BY M.F. THWAITE.
New York Harcourt, Brace & World (1967) 12mo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. vii, 184 pages.
Facsimile of the 1767 edition held by the British Museum, the earliest known complete copy. This was Newbery's first publication for children. Remnant of bookseller's ticket at bottom of front free endpaper.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 27169

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Pollack, John H. (editor). "THE GOOD EDUCATION OF YOUTH": WORLDS OF LEARNING IN THE AGE OF FRANKLIN.
New Castle, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Oak Knoll Press and University of Pennsylvania Libraries 2009 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover, dust jacket 352 pages
In 1749, Benjamin Franklin published his educational call to arms, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania. In it, Franklin set forth a radically new template for educating students, one that stressed social utility, secular independence, and an English language-based curriculum. This slim pamphlet led to the creation of the University of Pennsylvania, the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in North America. But what were schools like in the early Delaware Valley? Who received an education; how was it financed; and where did it occur? Who were the teachers; and what was taught? The essays in this collection seek to answer these questions by looking in detail at Franklin's projects for education alongside educational plans by and for Quakers, African Americans, women, German Americans, and the other populations of Pennsylvania and the region from the colonial era through the early national period.

Contributors to the volume include Michael Zuckerman, who argues that Franklin's vision of education was far more democratic than that of his counterpart Thomas Jefferson, although Jefferson is often hailed as a father of public education. William C. Kashatus surveys the many Quaker projects for education during the colonial period, while John C. Van Horne's study of projects for African American education in Philadelphia documents Franklin's involvement with the school for blacks supported by the Anglican Associates of Dr. Bray. Patrick Erben examines the diverse German communities and argues that Anglo observers like Franklin were particularly blind to innovative German educational projects occurring around them, and Carla Mulford looks at Franklin's attitudes towards women's education, both in theory and in practice. Also included are essays by George Boudreau on William Smith, the neglected pioneer of Philadelphian educational and cultural life, and by Mark Frazier Lloyd on how the Academy and College of Philadelphia under Smith moved away from Franklin's original intentions and ideals. An Afterword by University of Pennsylvania scholars Ira Harkavy, Lee Benson, and Matthew Hartley considers how Franklin's vision for education can guide institutions like Penn in the twenty-first century.

These essays relate and respond to an exhibition prepared by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries in 2006, and the full catalogue of the exhibition is included in this volume. Drawing on the collections of the University of Pennsylvania, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and other Philadelphia-area libraries, museums, and schools, the exhibition surveys the educational landscape of the period and provides a vital context for understanding the importance, originality, and ongoing relevance of Franklin's vision. It includes full color reproductions of original documents, printed books, and artifacts, as well as a brief illustrated essay by Lynne Farrington on The Friendly Instructor, a newly rediscovered Franklin imprint concerning education. An accompanying photographic essay assembles for the first time images of numerous surviving school buildings in the Delaware Valley, many of them previously unknown and little studied.

Co-published with University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 100470

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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 (Fleck D.31.C.1a). Many illustrations; this copy being one of those done by Kraus with some plates in color, including a color plate on the front of the dust jacket. Jacket worn with pieces missing.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 7492

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