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Reeve (Clara). The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story, London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778, engraved frontispiece with early signature to verso ...

Miniature Almanack. London Almanack for the Year of Christ, 1795, Printed for the Company of Stationers, [1794], engraved title-page, folding fron...

Clare (John). Poems, Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, 1st edition, London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820, half-title, errata slip, occasional ligh...

Clare (John). The Village Minstrel, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Taylor and Hessey; Stamford: E Drury, 1821, engraved portrait frontispiece by ...

Clare (John). The Shepherd's Calendar; with Village Stories, and Other Poems, 1st edition, London: John Taylor, 1827, engraved frontispiece by Edw...

Austen (Jane). Sense and Sensibility: A Novel, 1st illustrated edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, Standard Novels series title (no. 23), engr...

Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, reprinted, London: Richard Bentley, 1846, engraved frontispiece and vignette title (both with imprints dated 1...

Thackeray (William Makepeace). Vanity Fair. A Novel Without A Hero, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, engraved frontispiece,...

Eliot (George). Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life, 4 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1871-72, bound without hal...

Sewell (Anna). Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse, translated from the original equine, 1st edition, London: Ja...

Hardy (Thomas). The Return of the Native, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1878, half-titles, small marginal repair to volume I...

Stevenson (Robert Louis). Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1st UK edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886, slight toning to textbloc...

Fore-Edge Painting. Goethe. Faust, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1890, frontispiece, vignette title, black and white illustrations, all edges gil...

Cocker [Edward]. Cocker's accomplished School Master: containing sure and early directions for spelling, reading and writing English; according to...

* Crystal Palace. Lane's Telescopic View of the Interior of the Great Industrial Exhibition, London: C. Moody, 1851, 10 hand-coloured lithographed...

Darton & Harvey (Printers). The History of Goody Two Shoes; otherwise called Mrs Margery Two Shoes with her means of acquiring learning, wisdom an...

* German Peepshow. La Fête du Bairam à Constantinople, Das Bairams-Fest in Constantinopel, The Bairam ad Constantinople, circa 1835, hand-coloured...

[Grimaldi, Stacey]. A Suit of Armour for Youth, London: [Ackermann], 1823, engraved frontispiece by Cosmo Armstrong after William Grimaldi, 11 fur...

[Grimaldi, Stacey]. The Toilet, London: Rock Brothers & Payne, circa 1840-60, engraved hand-coloured title-page, 9 hand-coloured engraved plates e...

* Hornbook. A late 18th century bone alphabet hornbook, paddle-shaped bone hornbook engraved with the alphabet in upper case on one side, and in l...

Johnson (J., printer). Lessons for Children from Two to Three Years Old, [by Anna L. Barbauld], Part 1, London: J.Johnson, 1797, 2 pages advertise...

Juvenile education. A New Reading Made Easy, A Large Collection of Verses out of the Psalms, and New Testament. In three Parts. I. Being a Collect...

Life and Adventures of Mr. Pig and Miss Crane, A Nursery Tale, embellished with designs, circa 1832, 12 lithographed drawings, with tissue guards ...

Marshall (J., printer). The Adventures of a Whipping-Top, illustrated with stories of many Bad Boys, who themselves deserve Whipping, and of some ...

Marshall (John, Printer). The Friends; or, the History of Billy Freeman and Tommy Truelove, proper to be imitated by all those who desire to be go...

Marshall (John, publisher). The History of Master Billy Friendly, and his sister Miss Polly Friendly, to which is added the fairy tale of the thre...

McKenzie (J. printer). The Orphan; or, the interesting life of Little Fanny Fairchild: containing a variety of adventures entirely designed for th...

Newbery (E., printer). The Toy-Shop; or, Sentimental Preceptor containing some choice trifles, for the instruction and amusement of every little m...

Newbery (E., publisher). Instructive Lessons conveyed to the Youthful Mind through the medium of Tale and Dialogue, by Lilliputius Gulliver, Londo...

Newbery (E., Publisher). The Ladder to Learning, step the first, being a collection of select fables, consisting of words of only one syllable int...

Paper Doll Book. Phoebe, The Cottage Maid. Exemplified in a series of rural figures, 1st edition, London: S. and J. Fuller, 1812, seven hand-colou...

Paper Doll Book. The History and Adventures of Little Henry, exemplified in a series of rural figures, 5th edition, London: S. and J. Fuller, 1811...

Paper Doll Book. The History of Little Fanny, exemplified in a series of figures, 6th edition, London: S. and J. Fuller, 1810, seven hand-coloured...

* Peepshow. Thames Tunnel, 1200 feet long, 76 feet below high water mark, was 8 years building & cost £446,000, opened the 25th day of March 1843,...

Power (Francis, publisher). Mother Goose's Melody: or, Sonnets for the Cradle, in two parts...and illustrated with notes and maxims, historical, p...

Turpin (H., printer). The Mirror of Amusement, or Happy Village, being a new method of passing the year pleasantly and profitably, either in Town ...

Watts (Isaac). Divine Songs, attempted in easy language for the use of children by I. Watts, D.D., to which are added, the principles of the Chris...

Wilde (A., publisher). The Newest, Best and Very-Much Esteemed Book of Knowledge ... , 1st edition, London: A. Wilde, 1764, pp.[x]+156, possibly m...

* Alphabet. A New Spelling Alphabet for the Instruction of Children, circa 1782-1793, 3 sets of carved bone upper case letters, each complete, on...

* Alphabet. The Infant's Alphabet, circa 1830/40s, bone alphabet of 26 carved letters A-Z, each aproximately 15 mm high, contained in original tur...

* Articulated Figures. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass figures, Talfourd, circa 1920s, 25 hand-painted hand-cut articulated wood...

* Board Game. Amusement in the History of England, printed by Thos. Turner Del & Lith, circa 1840, hand-coloured lithograph, mounted on linen in 1...

* Board Game. [Course d'aeroplanes], Paris: Saussine Editeur, 1915, chromolithograph on paper, depicting various biplanes and air balloons in vign...

* Board Games. A Collection of approximately 85 board games, mainly early 19th-century and later, including: The International Mail, The New Game ...

* Circus. A set of movable cards, Germany, circa 1930s, 5 chromolithograhed cards (incomplete?), each with a circus scene and a movable figure ope...

* French Board Game. Loto Bus, Paris: Saussine, circa 1910, 6 chromolithograph images laid onto geometric patterned board, depicting a Parisien bu...

* French transformation playing cards. Jeu de Cartes á Rire de Thalie, Paris: Grandebes, circa 1819, the complete deck of 52 hand-coloured engrave...

* Balloon Toy. Luft-Ballon, Zürich: Franz Carl Weber, [1909], inflatable paper balloon, consisting of a metal wire framework covered by ten sectio...

* Jigsaw. Kindness to Animals, [J.W. Barfoot], circa 1863, 40-piece wooden jigsaw puzzle, with hand-coloured lithograph of two children in the cen...

* Marble Tree Game. Apple Picker Game, circa 1920, wooden and tin base with wooden figure and tree, base and tree with illustrated paper decoratio...

* Military. Webb's Military Figures, for the Practice of Tacticks, By which the movements of a Battalion or larger Body of Troops may be displayed...

* Noah's Ark. A wooden Noah's ark, circa 1930, wooden construction ark with painted decoration, flat bottom, sloping roof with lifting panel, spli...

* Panorama. A Panorama of the Coronation Procession of Their Majesties, 12th May 1937, drawn by Mary McNeile for Captain J. R. Abbey, London: Chis...

* Playing card boxes. A group of 20 playing card boxes, most 19th century, some original including: The Second Empire Pack (Field #41) original tw...

* Scenic pastime game. Fairy Tales, Pictures for Grouping (Tales), Malerische Zusammenstellung/Compositions Pittoresques (Contes), late 19th centu...

* Table Game. Der Schimmel, 1826, five hand coloured lithographs mounted onto pattern printed card, each with a decorative border and a logo in ea...

* Table Game. The Game of Besieging, circa 1810, hand-coloured lithograph on paper, laid onto decorated board, four vignettes to each corner depic...

* Table Game. Travelling on the banks of the Rhine, mid 19th century, hand-coloured lithograph on paper, laid onto linen, showing a scene of Germa...

* Table Games. Neues Gänsespiel, Nürnberg: G.N. Renner, circa 1830, hand-coloured lithograph on paper, laid onto thin card, depicting numbers 1-29...

* The Speaking Toybook. Reproducing the Voices of the Cock, the Goat, the Cat, the Bird, the Lamb and the Cuckoo, Dedicated to all Children by One...