CHILDREN
• EDUCATIONCHILDREN
• EDUCATION
The California Poets 
California Writers Club. Poems. 1933. Berkeley: Pr. by The Professional Press, 1933. 8vo. 67, [1] pp.
One
poem celebrates the campanile (Sather Tower) at Berkeley.
Provenance: Bookplate inside front wrapper of Lorraine & Horace Haynes.
• Publisher's light-blue wrappers. Bookplate as above. Near fine. (23669)
Canisius' Catechism of the
Youngest Children Canisius, Petrus, Saint. Institutiones christianae pietatis. Seu parvus catechismus catholicorum. Coloniae : Apud Maternum Cholinum, 1571. 12mo (13.5 cm; 5.25"). [16] ff., 51, [1] pp., [36] ff.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Offered here is an early printing of the version for the youngest students. The title-page and calendar are printed in red and black, and a few headlines in the early section are also in red.
Uncommon. OCLC locates only this now deaccessioned copy in the U.S., and one copy in Europe. Index Aureliensis fails to list this edition at all.
• Not in Index Aurel.; not in Adams. Recent ebony-brown calf old style: Round spine with raised bands, accented in gilt and with blind-tooled devices in compartments; single blind rules extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils, and covers framed in blind double fillets. Author's name and date of printing in gilt on spine. Early underscoring and some minimal marginalia in red ink in a 16th-century hand; ownership note of same era on title-page. Some age-spotting and other light discoloration, not serious. 
For an early children's book, a very, very nice copy. (24855)
Lafayette
— With CHROMOS
Cecil, E. Life of Lafayette. Written for children. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Co., 1860. 12mo. Frontis., illus. added title-page, [6], 218 pp.; 4 color plts.
• Publisher's quarter red cloth, stamped in blind on sides and in gold on spine. Cloth starting at joints, and splitting over edges and corners; spine tips off. Waterstains on first five leaves, intermittent light foxing in margins, pencilling to front endpapers. Minor bubbling to front and rear pastedowns, front endpaper chipped. (756)
“Innocent Entertainment, Mingled with Correct Information & Sound Instruction” Chambers, Robert; & William Chambers, eds. Chambers' repository of instructive and amusing papers. Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1853. 16mo (18.6 cm, 7.3"). 4 vols. I: [12 (8 adv.)], 31, [1], 32, 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1] 31, [1], 31, [1] pp.; illus. II: [10 (6 adv.)], 31, [1], 31 (lacking pp. 3–30), [1], 31 (lacking pp. 3–30), 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1], 32, 31, [1] pp.; illus. III: [4], 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1] pp.; illus. IV: [4], 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1], 31, [1] pp.; illus. .
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's blue textured cloth, covers blind-stamped, spines with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations; worn and scuffed with spines sunned and heads each with strip of dark cloth tape extending onto boards. Ex–social club library: Each volume with 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown, call number on endpaper, title-page pressure-stamped. Vol. IV lacking front free endpaper. Vol. II with one leaf with inner margin reinforced, several leaves with outer edges chipped, pp. 3–30 lacking from two articles. Paper slightly brittle, with occasional short edge tears; pages age-toned. (26396)
Go Fish The child's book of nature; being figures and descriptions illustrative of the natural history of beasts, birds, insects, fishes, &c. Lancaster [MA]: Carter, Andrews, & Co., (copyright 1830). 16mo (13.2 cm, 5.3"). 16 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. The book is illustrated with
17 hand-colored, in-text wood engravings of different types of fish and one uncolored title-page vignette.
• American Imprints 852. Not in Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books. Publisher's printed paper wrappers, creased, paper worn and split along spine, edges rubbed. Moderate spotting throughout.
Charming. (24547)
What
to Wear, the
Duty of Schoole-Masters,
Divorce Sentences,
& More
Church of England. Constitutions and canons. 1603. English. Constitutions and canons ecclesiasticall treated upon by the Bishop of London, president of the convocation for the province of Canterbury, and the rest of the bishops and clergy of the said province: And agreed upon with
the Kings Majesties licence in their synod begun at London, anno Dom. 1603, and in the year of the reign of our soveraigne Lord James, by the grace of God, King of England, France, and Ireland the first, and of Scotland the 37. And now published for the due observation of them, by His Majesties authority under the Great Seal of England. London: Pr. by John Norton, for Joyce Norton, and Richard Whitaker, 1633. Small 4to. [60] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. The Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical was an assemblage of rulings given equal force with the canon law, although the rulings themselves were not based on canon law.
• STC (rev. ed.) 10076; ESTC S101555. Removed from a nonce volume. A very nice, clean copy with an array of marginal markings — Xs, asterisks, “vid.,” and the odd hand-with-pointing-finger. (21226)
Pretty Binding / Sweet Illustrations Crockett, Samuel R. Sweetheart travellers. A child's book for children, for women, and for men. New York & London: Frederick A. Stokes Co., (copyright 1895). 8vo. [4], ix-xv, [1], 314 pp.; 14 plts. (incl. in pagination), illus.
Provenance: Bookplate of Ruth and Loring Dodd on front pastedown.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Publisher's grey-blue cloth, covers and spine stamped in white and black, spine with gilt-stamped title; extremities lightly rubbed, with a small spot to the back cover. Front pastedown with bookplate, front free endpaper with inked gift inscription. (12990)
“If You Have a Dollar, or Work for One,
This Book” Davies, Thomas Alfred. How to make money, and how
to keep it. New York: G.W. Carleton & Co.; London: S. Low, Son & Co., 1867. 12mo (19 cm,
7.5"). [4], [ix]–322, [10 (adv.)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Not in Goldsmiths'-Kress. Publisher's textured violet cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding cocked, cloth rubbed and faded, spine sunned. Front hinge (inside) cracked, back hinge tender. Ex–social club library: call number on front pastedown, front free endpaper lacking, rubber-stamp on title-page and several others; no other markings. Some light smudges, pages mostly clean. Very interesting reading from a variety of perspectives. (26503)
“Days When ALL the Dreams Come True” De La Mare, Walter, et al. Number Five Joy Street a medley of prose & verse for boys and girls. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1927. 4to. ix, [1], 220, [2 (adv.)] pp.; 8 col. plts.
• Publisher's tan cloth with terra-cotta printed medieval pattern, dust wrapper lacking; spine sunned, corners with minor soiling. Title-page with minor offsetting from frontispiece. Showing some external wear, but still a clean, solid, engaging copy of an entertaining work — in fact, a joy. (26068)
A
FavoriteVictorian
MINIATURE
Dew-drops.
[New York]: American Tract Society, n.d.
[ca. 1845-1860]. 32mo (just over 2" tall). 128 pp.
Binding: Publisher's tan-colored pebbled cloth, covers blind-stamped with elaborate frames; front cover with a gilt-stamped center ornament and rear cover with no ornament. “Dew Drops” stamped in gold sans-serif lettering on spine. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Pencil note on front free endpaper, “Jan. 4/[18]72 At Mr. Gowdey['s] had some warm sugar here as a long life to all and a happy one. Silas Evans.”
• Binding slightly faded. Pencilled names next to a number of texts; e.g., Effie, Mrs. Shafer, Cordel. A very nice copy and, for its inscriptions, an interesting one. (26671)
Illustrated
Explorations of
theCountryside
Dibdin,
Charles. Observations on a tour through
almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland, in a series
of letters, addressed to a large number of intelligent and respectable friends.
London: G. Goulding & John Walker (pr. by T. Woodfall), [1801–02].
4to (28.9 cm, 11.4"). 2 vols. I: 404 pp.; 27 plts. II: [2], 406, [2] pp.; 33
plts., 1 fold. map, 1 fold. chart.
Click the images for enlargements. female
boarding schools (in all three cases due to their detrimental
effects on morals), as well as quack medicines and incompetent amateur performers.
illustrated
with 60 copper-engraved and aquatint plates, one folding map, and one folding
chart. The copper engravings are
done in two different styles; one set consists of large renditions of scenery,
the other of smaller depictions of people and everyday life — the former
done from Dibdin's own paintings, and the latter from drawings by his daughter
Anne.
• Anderson, Book of British Topography, 373; Lowndes 638;
NSTC D1044. Not in Abbey, Life in England; not in Ray, The Illustrator
& the Book in England. On Dibdin, see: Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography online. Recent quarter caramel morocco and ochre cloth.
Light to moderate foxing; mild offsetting around plates; four pages with patch
of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item. Plates depicting people all with
small area of waterstaining to upper inner portions, just touching corner
of platemark without affecting images; scenic plates unaffected. All edges
marbled. 
A
solid, handsome, satisfying set. (26939)
So,
Will You Hear “Polly's
Lecture to Dolly” orDick, William B., ed. Dick's juvenile speaker for boys and girls containing original and selected speeches and recitations for young folks and little children. New York: Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation[,] successor to Dick & Fitzgerald, n.d. [©1897, but printed later]. 12mo. 90 pp., [3 (ads)] ff.
• Plain light blue wrappers printed in black.
“Adam Never Was a Boy . . .”Dick, William B., ed. Dick's little folk's reciter containing original and selected speeches and recitations for young children. New York: Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation, successor to Dick & Fitzgerald, [Š1896, but printed later]. 12mo. 90 pp., [3 (ads)] ff. 
• Publisher's off-white wrappers printed in black and with a list of “some good books” on the back wrapper. Small tear at top edge of front wrapper. A very nice copy. (10458)
One for Tiny TotsDick, William B., ed. Dick's speeches for tiny tots containing a selection of pieces specially adapted for quite young and very small children. New York: Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation[,] successor to Dick & Fitzgerald, n.d. [Š1895, but printed later]. 12mo. 90 pp., [3 (ads)] ff. 
• Publisher's pale blue wrappers printed in red. A fine copy. (7945)
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Creationist Guide to the Natural World — A Pretty 4-Volume Set Duncan, Henry. Sacred philosophy of the seasons; illustrating the perfections of God in the phenomena of the year. Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, & Webb, 1839. 12mo (18.5 cm, 7.3"). 4 vols. I: xvi, 389, [1] pp. II: 391, [1] pp. III: 401, [1] pp. IV: 416 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. The practical sciences of agriculture, husbandry, and manufacture have their places here along with much on the physical and biological worlds as such.
Bindings: Publisher's half green morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped title and decorations; very attractive.
• American Imprints 55446. Spines slightly darkened; lightly rubbed. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, call number on endpapers, no other markings. 
A clean, sound handsome set. (27171)
Not-Always-Pretty
Lives Recounted
— but a Pretty Book!
Earle, Alice Morse. Child life in colonial days. New
York: Macmillan & Co., 1899. 8vo. Frontis., xxi, [1], 418, [2 (adv.)] pp.; 55 plts., illus.
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt, white, and yellow; slightly cocked, with edges and extremities a bit rubbed. Occasional small pencilled marks of emphasis. In fact, quite a nice copy. (15620)
Missions aroundthe World, Illustrated Edwards, Bela Bates. The missionary gazetteer; comprising a geographical and statistical account of the various stations of the American and foreign Protestant missionary societies of all denominations, with their progress in evangelization and civilization. Boston: William Hyde & Co., 1832. 12mo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). Frontis., [4], [ix]–431, [1] pp. (pp. 137/38 bound in out of order); 24 plts.
Click the interior image for an enlargement.schools,
successes and challenges of conversion, and native habits before and after the
arrival of missionaries among the Chinese, Africans, Indians, Native Americans,
etc.
The volume is illustrated with a total of25
wood-engraved plates and a wood-engraved title-page vignette
depicting architectural views, native dress, dwellings, and religious sites.
• American Imprints 12263; Sabin 21891. Late 19th-century
half roan with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped
title; edges and extremities showing moderate shelf wear (refurbished) . Front
pastedown with old seminary bookplate, frontispiece and title-page with faded
rubber-stamps of the same, one preliminary leaf with inked numeral in lower
margin. Most plates with offsetting, pages with scattered light spotting;
otherwise clean and unmarked. 
In
fact, a nice copy of an interesting missionary and in part ethnographical
work. (25507)
Analyzing
Baptist Logic
Edwards, Peter. Candid reasons for renouncing the
principles of antipaedobaptism. Also, an appendix, containing a short method with the Baptists.
Exeter, NH: Henry Ranlet, 1802. 8vo (20.3 cm, 8"). [4], 199, [1 (blank)] pp.
infant
baptism; Allibone says that with the present treatise,
he “produced an argument of unusual power and conclusiveness. It cannot
be overcome, and all attempts hitherto employed to set it aside have been feeble.”
The
work includes substantial sections on female communion.
Click
the interior image for an enlargement.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 2175; Allibone 547. Period-style quarter tan cloth and light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Last page institutionally pressure-stamped; title-page with traces of paper adhesions to inner margin. Uncut copy; pages lightly age-toned, with a bit of soiling and light to moderate spotting. (25830)
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Bull-Baiting
— Deaf Education
— A Mother’s Horrible
Crime(English
Literary Periodical). The monthly magazine...Vol. XII. London:
R. Phillips, 1801. 8vo (22.5 cm, 9"). 644 pp.
A preface to another volume in this series notes that “by means of some new literary connexions in america, we shall possess peculiar advantages in presenting to our Readers, accounts of the most interesting circumstances belonging to the United States”—and it was an American reader, in fact, who owned the present example.
Provenance: Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription of Joshua Gilpin, a Quaker from Philadelphia who established the first paper mill in Delaware, in 1787.
• Disbound; marbled paper–covered boards much chipped and worn, with joints cracking and large portions of spine leather lost or worn down; sewing going, with some leaves separated. Some signatures uncut; page edges untrimmed and in some cases browned. Occasional edge chips. Volume now housed in a simple, acid-free phase box.
Sheriff's Sales, Foreign Intelligence, a Wet Nurse & Other Ads The Federal Gazette and Philadelphia Evening Post, Wednesday, 18th February, 1789. Philadelphia: Andrew Brown, 1789. 4to (28.4 cm, 11.2"). [4] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. Also reported/canvassed are hot religious disputes at the University of Pennsylvania and “Carlisle” (Dickinson), with reference to (literal) iconoclasm at Cambridge colleges under the Protectorate ; a double execution in New-York; and minutes of the General Assembly (including a petition from residents of Germantown protesting “enormous” taxes, “an act to prevent the importation of convicts within this common wealth,” and several items having to do with insolvent debtors.
• Unbound, as issued; edges tattered, pages creased, age-toned and foxed, with tears along one fold and scattered small holes, with loss of a few letters or words not affecting general sense. Two pages with large, early inked notations over text. (24658)
A Little Boy withHeaven on His Mind The flower gathered, or the history of Henry Packman Smith. London: The Religious Tract Society, [1838–39?]. 32mo. 64 pp.
Binding: Contemporary blue calf framed in gilt rolls with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped title and floral decorations, turn-ins with gilt dentelles, front cover gilt-stamped “C. Anderson.” All edges gilt.
Portrait: In addition
to the personalized binding, this copy has the skillfully executed silhouette
of a boy in a cap glued to the back of its title-page, opposite the contents.Is
this Charles Anderson?
Provenance: Charles Anderson.
• NSTC 2S26587. Binding as above, corners and spine extremities very slightly rubbed. Title-page with early inked inscription of Charles Anderson in upper margin. A beautiful little volume. (22728)
How
to be aGood
& Well-Liked
Little Girl
or Boy
Forrester, Francis [pseud. of Daniel Wise]. My Uncle Toby's
library. Boston: Brown & Taggard, 1862. 8 vols. (of 12). 8vo (15.5 cm, 6.2"). Each volume containing a frontispiece and either 64 or 62 pp.
• Sternick 496.4 (describing binding as red). Publisher's blind-stamped green textured cloth, spines gilt extra; bindings fresh and clean. Eight vols. of 12 present. Each volume with inked ownership inscription dated 1863 on front free endpaper. Pages slightly age-toned with occasional faint offsetting from illustrations, generally clean. A beautiful set, virtually as new. (24423)
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“Republican
Education” —
French
& Philadelphian?
France.
Convention nationale. Comitè d'instruction publique. National
convention. Report on the organization of national schools: To complete a republican
education. Made in the name of the Committee of public instruction. The 24th
germinal, second year of the republic.... Philadelphia: Pr. & sold [by Benjamin
Franklin Bache], 1794. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 12 pp.
• Sole American edition of Gabriel Bouquier's report on reforming public education in France. The chief aims are to release secondary and higher education from the "hide-bound" ways that the Revolutionary government perceived in the ancient regime and to establish a system for training youths who will be immediately useful to France in commerce, exploration, mining, the military, and other nonacademic pursuits. One of the reforms that it is thought will help ensure good instruction is the selection of teachers in public forums by committees of 40 citizens, each drawn from a cross-section of citizens. Committee votes are to be open to the public and a clear majority is to be necessary for appointment.• Evans 27001. Removed from a nonce volume, now in modern wrappers. Six-digit number stamped on title-page. Dusty.
A
Pennsylvania
COLLEGE Charter
Franklin College, Lancaster, Pa.
Charter of Franklin College, published by resolution of the Board, passed, 19
October, A.D. 1837. Lancaster: Bryson & Forney, 1837. 8vo. 7 pp.
• Sewn; in original wrappers.
“A Sort of Germ or Embryo” Fuller, Andrew. Manuscript on paper, in English. “Thoughts on the power of men to do the will of God” & “Hebrew Grammar by Israel Lyons.” 1777–78. 4to (20.8 cm, 8.25"). 59 (i.e., 60) ff.
Click the images for enlargements. an unpublished doctrinal essay by Fuller, while the versos hold Fuller's (partial) fair copy of The Scholar's Instructor, or Hebrew Grammer by Israel Lyons, and assorted other notes.
• Contemporary plain paper wrappers, front wrapper with hand-inked paper label; wrappers stained and much chipped, with text block separated from it and sewing loosening. Spots of staining to laid-in letters and first page; scattered small spots elsewhere, pages mostly clean. Paper good and the whole safe for reading or study. (26326)
Prize
Copy ofthe
Attic Nights
Gellius, Aulus. Auli Gellii Noctium atticarum libri XX
prout supersunt quos ad libros msstos novo & multo labore exegerunt.... Lugduni Batavorum:
Apud Cornelium Boutesteyn & Johannem du Vivié, 1706. 4to (26, 10.25" cm). Add. engr. t.-p.,
[34], 903, [65 (index; 1 final f. blank)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. The additional engraved title-page, done by P. Sluyter after a design by J. Groere, depicts the author at work on a moonlit night, and is decorated with medallions of Athena and her owl; the title-page is printed in red and black, with an engraved vignette of an Attic city.
Binding: Prize binding (without certificate) of contemporary vellum, covers framed and panelled in double blind fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, gilt-stamped medallion on each cover showing a scimitar-wielding knight bearing two crossed keys on his shield, supported by monkeys and surmounted by lounging figures grasping snakes. Spine with gilt-ruled raised bands, gilt-stamped compartment decorations, and early inked title.
• Brunet, II, 1524; Graesse, II, 46; Schweiger, II, 379. Binding as above, small areas of discoloration, ties now lacking; front hinge (inside) very unobtrusively reinforced. Front pastedown with affixed slip of old cataloguing, partially obscuring an early inked annotation. Title-page with shadows of pencilled numeral and publication annotation. Some margins darkened or with mild spotting, pages otherwise clean, and all edges red. (25963)
Jews,
Mohometans, &
Popery —
For American Schools — 1806[Gillet, Eliphalet]. History of the Bible and Jews, with remarks upon the rise and progress of Mahometanism and Popery. Adapted to the use of schools. Hallowell [ME]: Ezekiel Goodale (pr. by Benjamin Edes), 1806. 12mo (17.7 cm, 7"). 312 pp.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 10485. Contemporary speckled sheep, worn and abraded; back cover with slices to leather, title label on spine almost entirely rubbed away. One leaf torn; pages age-toned throughout, with staining/spotting. Back pastedown with calligraphy practice inked in an early hand.
Parley's Tales ofGood Temper & Cheerfulness Goodrich, Samuel G. Make the best of it, or, Cheerful Cherry, and other tales. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1865. 12mo (15.7 cm, 6.2"). [5]–viii, 170, [2 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements.Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked inscription: “Miss Alice A. Chamberlin. Presented by her Grandfather Joel Chamberlin,” dated 1865, Sennett (in New York State).
Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, covers blind-stamped with foliate decorations, spine almost fully and in fact rather gorgeously gilt-stamped with title and pictorial vignette.
• Bound as above; corners rubbed, front cover with small spots of discoloration, spine gilt lightly rubbed. Front free endpaper with inscription as above. Some light spotting, foxing, and offsetting. (25804)
Spanish as aSecond Language, 1835 Granja, Juan de la. Rasgos históricos de magnanimidad, valor, y nobleeza: Anecdotas, sentencias y ejemplos raros de virtud; dichos notables, cuentos, fábulas y ocurrencias graciosas, en prosa y en verso. Nueva York: Imprenta de Don Juan de la Granja, 1835. Small 8vo. 252 pp., [2 (index, ads)] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Early 19th-century ownership signatures on front free endpaper of Anthony Coe Ogilvie and E.H.(?) Ogilvie.
• American Imprints 31923. Not in Palau. Publisher’s quarter cloth with paper-covered sides; binding waterspotted. Scattered light foxing. A good copy. (26144)
AMHERST
Graves, Henry Clinton. History of the class of 1856 of Amherst college 1852–1896. Boston: C.H. Simonds & Co., 1896. 8vo. [6], 4–59, [6] pp.
• Publisher's cloth, issued without dust jacket. Dust soiling and one spot of discoloration on the binding. Very good condition.
“PRINTED AT THE ETON COLLEGE PRESS” Gray, Thomas. Poems by Thomas Gray. Eton: Eton College Press, 1902. 8vo. xiv, 164, [2] pp.; 4 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Tan calf, covers framed in gilt double fillets and gilt roll with gilt-stamped corner stars, central gilt-stamped coat of the Warre family arms; board edges with gilt roll, gilt inner dentelles, fine marbled endpapers. Spine with raised bands accented with gilt rolls and gilt-stamped floral decorations in compartments. All edges gilt. Signed by Spottiswoode & Co.
Provenance: The preprinted presentation leaf, completed in manuscript, notes (in Latin) that the recipient was Crichton Jordan Milne and the donor headmaster was Edward Warre.
• Binding damaged by old fire with spine label chipped nearly away, corners/edges abraded, and significant cracking/darkening of leather overall; still sound and indeed attractive. Interior very good, having been protected from that fire by the heavy gilt to the page edges which prevented smoke entry. Presentation leaf as above, with information dated 1905. (12687)
Greenaway's Lads & Lasses Greenaway, Kate. Mother Goose or the old nursery rhymes. London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, [1881]. 12mo (17.2 cm, 6.45"). 48 pp. (with contents pr. on front free endpaper).; illus.
• Not in Gottlieb, Early Children's Books & Their Illustration. Publisher's quarter rose and ivory cloth, covers with title stamped in brown surrounded by green latticework, dust jacket lacking; binding darkened and spotted. Front free endpaper with small inked ownership inscription. Sewing starting to loosen; light offsetting from facing images occasionally noticeable; some pages with tears at inner margins; a good copy only — yet, still, a charming thing! (27046)
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