FAVOURITE FABLES
No author listed. Illustrated by Harrison Weir.
Stock no. 1506749
Published by Griffith and Farran. 1st 1870. Very good condition.

Told in prose and verse. Blue cloth with gilt title labels and vignettes in black decoration to front cover and embossed decoration to rear cover. Brown endpapers. 24 Full-page b/w illustrations with tissue-guards. 150 pages plus 2 page publication list. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Some darkening to spine and cover edges. Gilt on spine dulled. Various marks to endpapers including tape residue, short pencil lines, remains of label and two small bookseller's labels, also fading to edges. Inscription to verso of frontis. Light foxing to prelims. All plates present, some creasing/marks to tissue guards.

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THE FAVOURITE PICTURE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by John Absolon; Halbot Knight Phiz Browne; John Gilbert; Thomas Landseer; John Leech; J.S. Prout; Harrison Weir; et al..
Stock no. 1315589
Published by Grant and Griffith. circa 1870. Almost very good condition.

'A gallery of delights designed for the amusement and instruction of the young with several hundred illustrations'. New Edition. Large format. Cloth spine with orange decorated boards. Hand-coloured illustrations. 32 pages (printed on one side only). Covers are worn. New endpapers. Light foxing and grubby fingermarks to pages. A decent copy of an early edition.

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THE FAVOURITE PICTURE BOOK
No author listed. Illustrated by John Absolon; Halbot Knight Phiz Browne; John Gilbert; Thomas Landseer; John Leech; J.S. Prout; Harrison Weir; et al..
Stock no. 1315585
Published by Grant and Griffith. circa 1950. Good condition.

'A gallery of delights designed for the amusement and instruction of the young with several hundred illustrations'. Large format. Cloth spine with green decorated boards. Printed on linen backed paper. Hand-coloured illustrations. 32 pages (printed on one side only). Professionally re-backed with new blue cloth spine and new endpapers. Covers are edge worn, scuffed and scratched with surface-paper damage to rear cover. Some fingermarks, light foxing and creases to page corner tips. Although all the pages are present they are not in number order (possible binding error?).

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THE CHILDREN'S FRIEND ANNUAL FOR 1903
Written by J.A. Hammerton; Mary C. Rowsell; J. Macdonald Oxley. Illustrated by Louis Wain; Harrison Weir; Harold Copping.
Stock no. 1404885
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co.. 1903. Almost very good condition.

Vol XLII. Containing the monthly parts for 1902. Cloth spine, pictorial front board shows a girl with her horse and a dog jumping up at her skirt. Colour frontis, b/w text illustrations throughout. 236 pages plus 20 page catalogue at rear. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Small bump to bottom edge of rear board. Rear board is marked and scratched. Name and date to front endpaper and name in ink to verso. Pages browned. Contents clean.

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FAVOURITE FABLES
No author listed. Illustrated by Harrison Weir.
Stock no. 1404776
Published by Griffith and Farran. 1870. Slightly better than good condition.

Told in prose and verse. Green cloth with gilt title labels and vignettes, black decoration to front cover and embossed decoration to rear cover. Brown endpapers. 24 Full-page b/w illustrations with tissue-guards. 150 pages plus 2 page publication list. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Gilt on spine is faded. Front board darkened around the edges. Joints cracked, front joint badly, webbing showing. Front endpaper and frontis detached. Two small booksellers stickers to rear pastedown. Some foxing mainly to page edges. Grubby margin marks to some pages. Tissue guards to plates a little browned.

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ORIGINAL FABLES
Written by Mrs. Prosser. Illustrated by Ernest Griset; Harrison Weir; Noel Humphreys; et al..
Stock no. 1404733
Published by The Religious Tract Society. circa 1871. Almost very good condition.

Brown cloth covers with gilt titles and vignette, black decoration. B/w illustrations. 248 pages incl. index. Spine bumped, worn and browned. Some splits to cloth on either side of spine. Corners bumped and worn. Couple of marks to covers. Front and rear joints cracked showing some webbing beneath. Small label to rear pastedown. Dated inscription plus another name and date to verso of front endpaper. Foxing to prelims and last couple of pages. A little fingering otherwise contents generally clean.

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MERRY MADCAPS!
Written by Aunt Ruth. Illustrated by A. Pearse; Harrison Weir; Louis Wain; et al..
Stock no. 1404576
Published by S.W. Partridge & Co.. Slightly better than good condition.

Pictorial boards with black title to spine. Colour frontis plus b/w illustrations. Adverts to endpapers. Spine bumped and worn with webbing showing through are top and a little on the sides. Corners bumped and worn. Board edges scuffed. Rear cover is grubby. A few hinges are cracked. Bottom corner of one page torn off and small closed tear with a little creasing to another page. Light browning to endpapers and a couple of pages internally. A few foxspots and a little fingering. Some colouring to adverts and illustration on title page.

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TINY STORIES FOR TINY READERS IN TINY WORDS
No author listed. Illustrated by Harrison Weir.
Stock no. 1505021
Published by Griffith and Farran. Slightly better than good condition.

Brown decorated cloth, gilt vignettes to front and spine. 24 stories in Part I and 12 in part II. B/w illustrations. 127 pages, 32 page catalogue to rear. Catalogue at rear dated 1879. Spine and corners bumped with slight wear. Spine darkened. Covers a little grubby with small black splash to front cover. Front joint and a couple of hinges cracked. First gathering is partially detached, holding by bottom staple. Endpapers slightly grubby with damp (?) marks to bottom. Some foxing and marks to contents including some pencil annotations.

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THE CHILDREN'S NATURAL HISTORY
Written by G.A. Hutchison; Theodore Wood. Illustrated by G.L. Seymour; Harrison Weir; Ernest Griset; Louis Wain; et al..
Stock no. 1306249
Published by The Religious Tract Society. circa 1904. Very good condition.

Large format. Red cloth spine, pictorial boards. 88 pages. B/w illustrations throughout. Wain illustrations are a small colour illustration to front cover and a full-page b/w illustration to page 79 - both featuring cats. Spine and corners slightly worn, covers slightly scuffed. Inscription in ink (prize) to front endpaper. Light foxing and fingering but contents generally clean.

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MEMOIRS OF BOB THE SPOTTED TERRIER
Written by Harrison Weir. Illustrated by Harrison Weir.
Stock no. 1201091
Published by George Routledge & Sons. 1st 1885. Slightly better than good condition.

Cloth spine, pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. New endpapers. A few foxspots but contents generally very good. Corners worn. Boards a little scuffed.

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THOSE OTHER ANIMALS
Written by G.A. Henty. Illustrated by Harrison Weir.
Stock no. 440808
Published by Henry And Co.. 1st 1891. Fair condition.

Part of 'The Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humour' series. Green boards with gilt titles and white vignette to front cover. 217 pages + adverts to rear. Corners and spine bumped. Covers marked. Half-title page missing. A few pages have closed tears; some repaired with tape.

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EVERY INCH A KING
Written by Mrs. J. Worthington Bliss. Illustrated by Harrison Weir.
Stock no. 625714
Published by Griffith Farran Browne & Co Limited.. Circa 1906. Very good condition.

The Adventures of Rex and his Friends. Rex is a retriever. Blue cloth with Union Jack at top of flag pole to front. Title to spine faded. Bookplate to front pastedown. Light page browning and a few foxspots.

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