MY LADY DOLLY
No author listed.
Stock no. 1316971
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. circa 1895. Almost very good condition.

Large shaped book with pictorial cardwraps (shaped as a dolly). Bright colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Light creases to top of covers and pages (dolls head). Small piece missing from lower front corner. Crack to spine at lower 2".

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A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1814763
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1908. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles and vignette. 12 colour plates plus b/w illustrations. 125 pages. Top edge gilt. Boards a little marked but gilt to front still bright. Cloth backstrip has been re-glued directly to spine, loss to top & tail, touched up with blue ink to sides. Rear hinge pulled. A few marks to contents. A few scattered foxspots. One plate has a corner crease.

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AN ELEGY ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX MRS. MARY BLAIZE
Written by Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1208821
Published by George Routledge & Sons. Almost very good condition.

R. Caldecott's Picture Books. Oblong format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. 22 pages. Covers creased and a little grubby. Light creasing to pages. A couple of margins marks else contents clean.

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AN ELEGY ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX MRS. MARY BLAIZE
Written by Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Stock no. 1208818
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. Very good condition.

R. Caldecott's Picture Books. Oblong format. Colour pictorial boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. 22 pages. Covers lightly browned. Content bright and clean.

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A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
Written by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1208800
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1915. Almost very good condition.

Published for the Daily Telegraph by Hodder & Stoughton. Large format. Cream cloth with dark blue titles and vignettes. 16 tipped-in colour plates mounted on brown stiff paper with decorative border. 11 x 8.5". Spine darkened, covers slightly soiled. Spine and corners bumped. Front joint cracked. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers, title page and some page margins browned. Plates fine.

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MORE PRAYERS AND GRACES
Written by Allan M. Laing. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
Stock no. 1814724
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1957. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Second Little Book of Unusual Piety. Blue boards, gilt title to spine; vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. Slight browning to top & tail of spine. Price-cut yellow pictorial dustwrapper is slight faded to spine, edge-worn and grubby, small piece of loss to rear panel.

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NONSENSE NONSENSE!
Written by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 1814723
Published by Blackie & Son Ltd.. 1st 1902. Almost very good condition.

Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial boards and endpapers. One of Robinson's rarest illustrated books. Edges rubbed, corners worn. Scattered foxing throughout and a few grubby marks.

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A LITTLE CHAFF
Written by Margaret Lavington. Illustrated by Helen Urquhart.
Stock no. 1814683
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1919. Very good condition.

A cheerful little book of rhymes based on the farm and its animals. Green pictorial boards, cloth spine. 3 colour plates and 2-tone (black and yellow) illustrations to contents throughout. Edges rubbed, corners worn. Gift inscription in ink to front pastedown.

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LITTLE DUTCHY - NURSERY SONGS FROM HOLLAND
Written by Will Ransom. Illustrated by Rie Cramer; Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1507493
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1925. Very good condition.

Nursery Songs From Holland. Large format. Blue cloth spine. Brown boards with very large colour pictorial onlay to front. Colour frontis plus 12 mounted colour plates. Poems plus songs and music. A little bumping and wear to spine and corners. Name to top edge of front cover. A few small marks to covers. Contents are clean but there is foxing throughout.

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TIMMY THE TUG
Written by Ted Hughes; Jim Downer. Illustrated by Jim Downer.
Stock no. 1507246
Published by Thames and Hudson. 1st 2009. Nearly fine condition.

Large oblong format. Blue boards. Colour pictorial onlay to front. Super colour illustrations. Story in verse. ISBN: 9780500514962. Tiny amount of wear to ends of spine. Rear cover ever so slightly grubby. Contents fine.

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FFANGS THE VAMPIRE BAT AND THE KISS OF TRUTH
Written by Ted Hughes. Illustrated by Chris Riddell.
Stock no. 1507203
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A wildly inventive fantasy with splendidly exuberant illustrations. Black boards, silver title to spine. ISBN: 0571138411. Surface paper damage alongside spine on two pages, looks like they have been stuck together at some stage. A nice copy otherwise. Dustwrapper is very slightly edge worn.

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A DOZEN DOGS OR SO
Written by Patrick R. Chalmers. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 1316414
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1928. Very good condition.

LIMITED EDITION, limited to 250 copies. White calf spine with gilt title. Burgundy cloth covers with gilt title to front. 47 pages, top edge gilt but others untrimmed. 12 wonderful colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. SIGNED by the author and artist, this is copy no. 132. Some staining to rear edge of spine and slight discolouration to lower edge of front cover. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing, especially to endpapers and page edges.

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