JOANA
Written by Margaret Surrey.
Stock no. 1206137
Published by Marshall Brothers. 1st 1897. Good condition.

Dark green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. 312 pages. Book: Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Free endpapers browned. Page-edge browning. Covers rubbed.

GYPSY'S COUSIN JOY
Written by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Illustrated by Mary Fairman Clark.
Stock no. 1106197
Published by Dodd, Mead & Company. Circa 1895. Almost very good condition.

Attractive pale green cloth with red wagon wheel and lasso vignette. B/w plates. 289 pages. Contents very good but joints cracked and corners bumped. Covers nice and bright.

GYPSY'S SOWING AND REAPING
Written by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Illustrated by Mary Fairman Clark.
Stock no. 1106195
Published by Dodd, Mead & Company. Circa 1896. Very good condition.

Attractive pale green cloth with red wagon wheel and lasso vignette. B/w plates. 286 pages. Rear board slightly marked with small dent but overall a very bright copy.

THREE LITTLE NEST BIRDS
Written by Juliana Horatia Ewing. Illustrated by R. Andre.
Stock no. 1201592
Published by SPCK. 1st 1883. Very good condition.

Small oblong format. Pictorial boards with brown spine. Pretty colour and sepia illustrations throughout. A sobering tale of what happens when three children take three baby birds from their nest. Rebacked with modern cloth and new endpapers. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents near fine.

FAIRY TALES
Written by Skimble Skamble.
Stock no. 1201545
Published by Andrews & Co.. 1st 1869. Very good condition.

'To all merry good-tempered, and well-behaved children, who are of course fond of Fairy Tales and to all grown-up people who are not stiff and starched...' Green cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover with embossed borders. Stories of elves, princesses, dwarfs and fairies. B/w chapter head and tail pieces. Spine and corners a little bumped, corners slightly worn. Small nick to lower edge of front cover. Small split to spine rear edge. Covers clean with gilt still bright. Attractive pictorial bookplate of Dora Allison on front pastedown. Inscription in ink on front endpaper dated December 1869. Some light creasing to pages and some fingermarks. Two pages have circular black marks to them (pages 88 and 120). A bright copy of a scarce early fairy tale book.

OUR PETS
No author listed.
Stock no. 1801108
Published by The Alexandra Publishing Co.. Circa 1900. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. Full page colour illustrations plus two-tone pictures. 8 pages. Untearable book. Spine lightly rubbed with a little surface paper wear. Covers have a few minor marks but essentially nice and bright. Contents lovely and bright.

THE ROSE AND THE LILY
Written by Mrs. Octavian Blewitt. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
Stock no. 1201458
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 1877. Almost very good condition.

Pink cloth with elaborate gilt decorations. B/w frontis by Cruikshank. Believed to be the last book illustrated by him. The Rose And The Lily, How They Became the Emblems of England and France. A Fairy Tale. 62 pages + 36 page booklist dated October 1876. Top of spine chipped with loss. Spine browned and bumped and base. Small mark to front cover. Some page edges ragged from uneven opening.

OUR PETS
No author listed.
Stock no. 448837
Published by The Alexandra Publishing Co.. Circa 1900. Good condition.

Large format. Pictorial card wraps. Full page colour illustrations plus two-tone pictures. 8 pages. Untearable book. Spine a little torn. Corners rubbed. Pages slightly crinkled. A nice example of an early untearable book.

FAIRY TALES AND ROMANCES
Written by Count Anthony Hamilton.
Stock no. 383546
Published by Henry G. Bohn. 1st 1849. Good condition.

Translated from the french by M. Lewis, H.T. Ryde and C. Kenney. Brown cloth with gilt title to spine and blind stamped decorations. Pale yellow endpapers. 562 pages. B/w fronis portrait of the author. Spine and corners worn. Covers lightly rubbed. Grubby marks to some page margins throughout and some light foxing. There is a musty smell to contents (as usual with books this old!). A decent copy of a scarce book.

THE MAGIC MIRROR
Written by William Gilbert. Illustrated by W.S. Gilbert.
Stock no. 383552
Published by Alexander Strahan. 1st 1866. Good condition.

A round of tales for young and old. Purple cloth with gilt titles and decorative borders. 290 pages, all edges gilt. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Spine faded and rear cover just lightly spotted. Front joint is cracked and a couple of hinges also cracked. Light foxing throughout. A few marks to page margins but contents are generally clean.

A DESCRIPTION OF THREE HUNDRED ANIMALS
No author listed.
Stock no. 597353
Published by J. And F. Rivington. 1774. Good condition.

A Description of Three Hundred Animals viz. Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents and Insects With a Particular Account of The Manner of Their Catching of Whales in Greenland. Extracted from the Best Authors and Adapted to the Use of All Capacities. Illustrated with Copper-Plates, Whereon is Curiously Engraven Every Beast, Bird, Fish, Serpent and Insect Described in the Whole Book. The Eleventh Edition Carefully Corrected and Amended. Small format. 7 x 4". Full brown leather binding. B/w frontis. Title page in red and black. 212 pages. Numerous b/w illustrations including one large folding plate. Contents very good. Front board almost detached. Boards very worn. A fascinating early natural history book.

THE VOICES OF SPRING FLOWERS AND OTHER TALES
Written by M.S..
Stock no. 589729
Published by William and Robert Chambers. 1862. Good condition.

Small format. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine and small vignette to front cover. B/w frontis. Chamber's' Library for Young People Second Series. Joints cracked. Top and tail of spine chipped. Bookplate to front endpaper. Contents page detached.