CHILDREN'S TOY BOOKS - Darton's Stories of Wild Animals. Hand dated 1853. "Printed in oil colours and warranted to clean with water, without injury." Published by Darton & Co. Holborn Hill, London. (note of interest to North American readers: 'Holborn' is pronounced: HObun). 9½" x 6½" cotton stitched. Early example of spot colour printing. Eight pages each illustrating a wild animal on the top half with a description of the creature in the lower half and intermediate pages, presumable to allow a child to draw and paint copies.
ref: children 7
£20.00
front cover

THE GREAT PANJANDRUM HIMSELF. Illustrated by R. Caldecott, published by George Routledge & Sons, London. Thought to be late 1880s.
9½" x 8" (landscape orientation). 28pp including the covers. Seventeen ink drawings and six ink and colour drawings. Condition: excellent. Good strong colour, undamaged pages, hard corners, tight string binding.
ref: children 8
£25.00
front cover

THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER 11th edition 1940 by A.A. Milne with decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Methuen, London. Blue cloth covered boards titled and illustrated in black. Occasional light foxing otherwise clean and tight. No dj.
ref: children 18
£7.00

WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG 34th edition 1941by A.A. Milne with decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Methuen, London. Blue cloth covered boards titled and illustrated in black. Chipped and torn dj.
ref: children 19
£7.00

THE STORY OF LORD ROBERTS The Children's Heroes Series, Edited by John Lang. By Edmund Francis Sellar with pictures by Sydney Paget and others. 6" x 4½" x 120 pp. Publisher Jack, date c 1902. Top page edges gilted others rough cut. Red cloth gilt decorated front and spine. Front bears stick-on pholithographic print of Lord Roberts. Several colour photo prints in the text.
ref: children 21
£5.00

Rupert Bear books

ENGLISH CHILDREN IN THE OLDEN TIME by Elizabeth Godfrey. 1907 Published by Methuen & Co., London. 9" x 5½" x 1¾" . 330 hand cut pages plus index and Methuen's contemporary book list. Thirty-two half-tone illustrations of paintings. Twenty chapters on parenting, upbringing, modelling behaviour, forms of education and behavioural advocates of the times. From nursery to the end of childhood; from Saxon times onwards. Pages are extensively foxed. Blue cloth covered boards, embossed and gilted with only very slight wear. Binding firm. Good overall condition.
ref: children 9
£10.00

THE STORY OF THE NURSERY 1958 First ed. By Magdelen King-Hall published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. 8vo. 268pp inc index. Pink cloth covered board with gilt spine titling. Light foxing of end papers otherwise clean and tight. Scuffed but fair dj with front sepia illustration.
ref: children 11
£10.00

Children's board games

French and US trade cards of 1880s/90s picturing children

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