Children's The Bookshop catalogue 2019

First edition, first issue (without advertisements or date to title verso); 8vo; half-title, frontispiece and 11 plates by T.M.R. Whitwell, device to title, some minor toning and oxidising, usual toning to endpapers, contemporary lending library label & stamp to front pastedown; publisher's green cloth with with cricket scene in white, black and red to upper cover and spine, with title in gilt to spine, spine slightly dulled, some minor rubbing and bumping to extremities with small closed tear to cloth at head of spine.

4to (330 x 240 mm.); 8 amusing moving tableaux comprising: A Butterfly Catcher, Woman at the opera, Billiard Player, a boy presenting flowers to his Granny, A Beer Drinker, A boy Stealing Apples, The Angler, The Latchkey and the Arrest of the Turk, each with a rhyme printed opposite, finger-soiling and some light offsetting from rusty rivets but colours still bright; publisher's illustrated, paper-covered boards, cloth spine rebacked, dust-soiled, rubbed and chipped on extremities but all considered very good.

Square 8vo (210 x 155 mm.); pictorial title printed in red & black, 24 colour plates by John Elliott, a little minor spotting, gift inscription to front free endpaper; publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth blocked in dark brown, an attractive copy.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies; 16mo (138 x 108 mm.); usual light browning to free endpapers; publisher's green cloth, dust-jacket, an excellent copy.

First edition; small 4to (245 x 180 mm.); numerous illustrations, some toning and light foxing mostly to margins, contents otherwise clean; publisher's pictorial boards, spine very slightly faded, extremities a little rubbed, dust-jacket, gift inscription to verso, some chipping and creasing to edges and spine ends, but overall a very good example.

First edition; small 4to (250 x 195 mm.); 4 colour plates, numerous illustrations including full-page, usual mostly marginal toning; publisher's colour pictorial boards, slightly bumped and rubbed at corner and spine-ends, otherwise very good, dust-jacket, some wear with small sections of loss to spine ends and a few mostly closed tears, overall very good.

First edition; 4to (263 x 195 mm.); 20 mounted colour plates by M. Etheldreda Gray, pictorial title, neat ink name to head of front free endpaper, internally fine; publisher's white cloth with elaborate decorative gilt decoration to upper cover and spine, upper cover with further decoration in green, top edge gilt, a fine example, preserved in publisher's plain glassine wrapper and original printed box (worn and lacking top section).

First edition; 8vo (187 x 135 mm.); wood-engraved frontispiece, title vignette, 6 plates and 5 vignettes, by Arthur Hughes, upper hinge pulling slightly with some splitting at hinge plus 2 small abrasions to front endpapers, but overall internally very good; publisher's blue cloth blocked in gilt with pictorial design to upper cover and gilt stamp to lower cover for the Albion Crescent School Dowanhill [Glasgow], gilt edges, rubbing and minor bumping to extremities, spine very slightly dulled.

First edition, first printing; large 4to (360 x 300 mm.); colour plates and vignettes by Maxfield Parrish; publisher's cloth with onlaid colour pictorial title, a few minor scratches, slight rubbing, but overall a very good copy.

First edition, first state; 8vo; frontispiece, plates and vignettes by F. Y. Cory, frontispiece tissue-guard torn, hinges pulling slightly; publisher's sage cloth blocked in gilt with inset colour illustration to upper cover, minor rubbing and bumping to extremities, overall a very good copy.