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MY MOTHER
Written by Comus; R.M. Ballantyne; Ann Taylor.
Stock no. 2130362
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons. 1st 1857. Good condition.

An adaptation of the poem by Ann Taylor, with a prose version and two musical settings. Comus is the pseudonym for R.M.Ballantyne. Large format. Green embossed cloth with gilt title and vignette to front cover. 32 pages. 8 attractive colour plates. The story of a kitten. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Grubby marks and uneven fading to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Creasing and a few margin tears, foxing, including to plate pages. Frontis is very creased; appears to at one time have been folded. Some damp marks. A reading copy.

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THE BABY'S BOUQUET
Written by Lucy Crane. Illustrated by Walter Crane.
Stock no. 2130295
Published by George Routledge & Sons. Good condition.

Brown cloth spine, pictorial boards. Square format. Decorated endpapers. Printed in colours by Edmund Evans. "A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes and Tunes". Companion volume to "The Baby's Opera". Rebacked (new spine). Original covers; some paper chipping, with loss. Heavy wear and bumping to corners. Contents have some tape/paper repairs to binding/pages. Chipping to page edges, some browning. A reading copy.

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OPPOSITE NEIGHBOURS AND OTHER STORIES
Written by Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by W.J. Morgan.
Stock no. 2128345
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1st 1898. Almost very good condition.

Peach pictorial cloth. Colour & b/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Marks to covers, with some scuffs. Some grubby marks and foxspots to pages.

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THE UNWELCOME BABY AND WHAT BECAME OF HIM
Written by S. Ellen Gregory.
Stock no. 2127928
Published by Wesleyan Conference Office. Circa 1880. Good condition.

With Other Stories of Noble Lives Early Consecrated. Green cloth with gilt and black titles and decorations. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Marks to covers. Bookplate to front cover. What looks like a reindeer outline to front endpaper, with what appears to be glue residue. Grubby marks.

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ALMANACH DE KATE GREENAWAY POUR 1883
No author listed. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Stock no. 2127633
Published by Librairie Hachette Et Cie. 1883. Almost very good condition.

Small format. Cloth spine. Colour illustrations. Text in French. Covers are scuffed, with wear. Spine is browned. Foxing and browning to page throughout.

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THE ROLLO BOOKS ROLLO'S PHILOSOPHY SKY & AIR
Written by Jacob Abbott.
Stock no. 2126917
Published by T.Y. Crowell & Co.. Almost very good condition.

Only 1 volume of 7 in the series. Contains the two stories; Rollo's Philosophy Sky; Rollo's Philosophy Air. Red cloth with gilt title boxes. Black decorations. Spine is browned. A few marks to outer page edges. Spotting to rear cover.

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THE CAPTAIN'S YOUNGEST AND OTHER CHILD STORIES
Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Reginald Birch.
Stock no. 2126490
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Almost very good condition.

Brown cloth boards, with black titles and decorations. 15 b/w plates. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Front endpaper appears to be MISSING. Some foxing.

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VICTORIANS ABROAD
Written by John S. Goodall. Illustrated by John S. Goodall.
Stock no. 1815767
Published by Macmillan London Limited. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Small oblong format. Brown boards, gilt title to spine and vignettes. Colour illustrations throughout. No text. ISBN: 0333284534. A few minor foxspots present.

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HAPPY FAMILIES AND THEIR TALES
No author listed.
Stock no. 1610115
Published by Ernest Nister. c. 1901. Almost very good condition.

Large oblong format. Cloth spine, pictorial front cover. 5 beautiful fold-down full-page chromo-lithographed layered scenes. B/w illustrations. Board corners worn with some surface loss; spine scuffed at top & tail with fading and slight fraying of cloth. Boards a little scuffed and marked. Hinges strengthened with bookbinding tape. One pop-up scene is edge creased, with corner repair. Scattered foxing.

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THE CAPTAIN'S YOUNGEST PICCINO AND OTHER CHILD STORIES
Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Stock no. 1208841
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. Circa 1905. Almost very good condition.

Blue/green and orange decorated cloth. B/w plates. 183 pages. All plates present. Top and tail of spine and corners bumped and rubbed with slight loss of colour. Covers marked, mainly at edges. Bookplate and name in ink to front endpaper. Light foxing to prelims. Contents clean.

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THE GIRLS AND I
Written by Mrs. Molesworth. Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke.
Stock no. 1208826
Published by Macmillan & Co.. 1st 1892. Almost very good condition.

Red cloth with black title and vignette plus gilt border to front. Gilt title and decorations to spine. 192 pages. 7 full-page b/w illustrations. One plate missing. Spine browned. Covers slightly soiled. Endpapers browned, rear endpaper soiled. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents very good.

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JAN OF THE WINDMILL
Written by Juliana Horatia Ewing. Illustrated by Mrs. Allingham.
Stock no. 1316853
Published by George Bell & Sons. 3rd 1884. Almost very good condition.

Town and Country Series. Third Edition. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt vignette of windmill and black borders to front cover. 7 x 4.75". Eleven b/w illustrations. 310 pages plus 24 page book list. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Joints cracked. Name and date in ink to half-title page. Some light page browning.

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