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Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Circa 1900. Fair tight usable copy with moderate wear and heavy spotting. Text free of marks. Brown cloth.Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 34 pages. Slim large size 30cm x 21cm booklet in soft card cover + a letter from the author. (A Preliminary Chronicle of North Dean by Nicholas Wheeler Robinson ).

Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Etat : Near Fine. Second Edition; First Printing. Light toning/foxing, else Near Fine. International shipping billed at cost. Photos upon request.; Maps; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 34 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Small !2mo, vii + (1 contents) + 2 - 134 + (2 solutions) + (8 list) pages complete. Original red publisher's cloth gilt embossed lettering and blind design on front, raised gilt lettering on spine. Original yellow end papers. Ink dedication with date "January 1901" on front endpaper. Covers : very clean, bright, unmarked with sharp corners. Contents : very clean, tight and unfoxed. Bright attractive copy. F.…

12mo. 4.5 x 7 inches. 48 pp.; [5] -23 pp.; [viii] + 62 + [ii] pp. Bound in original half calf with blind stamped borders, over marbled boards, spine in compartments with gilt bands and contrasting maroon morocco title label, gilt. Slight wear to extremities and traces of foxing, but otherwise a very good copy. Armourial bookplate. Illustrated by hand coloured etching as frontispiece and by diagram in text. Thomas Morton (1764-1838), playwright, wrote some twenty five plays for the English theatre. 1792-1828, several of these being popular successes, including A Roland for an Oliver. Richard Lalor Sheil (1791-1851), was an Irish politician and paywright, whose first play was transferred form Dublin to Covent Garden in 1816. Sheil was an MP for four separate English and Irish constituencies, 1830-51 and also served as Vice-President of the Board of Trade, Master of the MInt and as a diplomat. The play Evadne, first performed and published in 1819, is said to have been based on 'The Traytor' by James Shirley (1596-1666). Both plays were reissued several times throughout the nineteenth century. William Oxberry(1784-1824) was an actor and playwright, first appearing in Covent Garden in 1807. He edited The New English Drama, twenty two volumes of plays, 1818-24. The author of Glenwar has not been identified; several editions were published including the US, in the 1820s. This copy is from the library assembled by Richard Monckton-Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809-85), an important patron of literature, and by his son, of Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, and previously the Earl of Crewe (1858-1945), Liberal politician, who held a wide variety of offices in his career, including those of Colonial and India Secretary ART / LITERATURE DRAMA LIT. FICTION DRAMA 19TH CENTURY ART / LITERATURE Koch, A Bibliographical Checklist of Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Bluebooks.…

15, [1]p. 8vo. Stitched as issued; outer leaves dusted, some sl. wear to leading edges of uncut pages. ESTC T40206. There are three recorded printings in 1709, although this appears to be a piracy as suggested by a single copy in the BL of a notice by John Phillips complaining about the John Morphew printing. 'Advertisement. Whereas a sheet of paper has been lately spread abroad, under the title of, The French favourites; or, the seventh discourse of Balzac's Politicks, said to be publish'd by the Reverend Dr. Kennet.' Balzac, 1597-1654, renowned for his Lettres and essays. He was a founding member of the Academie Francais.…

8vo (9.75" x 6.75"), pebbled red cloth with pictorial green paper over front board and purple paper with ad over rear board. Publisher's title replacement on front cover pasted over an earlier title, likely "The Little Girl." Ad for Chapman & Co's "Patent Entire Wheat Flour" on back cover. 8 ff. with chromolithographic illus. and text on one side only, terminal leaf affixed to inside of back cover. CONDITION: Good, front cover paper chipped along spine, extremities worn, lower cover soiled; light wear to pages, "flexible face" toned and hardened but remarkably well preserved. A rare and remarkably well-preserved "flexible-face" book from London's pioneering and prolific producer of toy and movable books for children. One Head as Good as Eight, or, as it was first known, simply The Little Girl, was the fifth in Dean & Son's "Flexible-Faced Story Book" series. These books were constructed around a moldable gutta-percha head, which, affixed to the lower cover, appeared through a cutout on each of the eight pages. Here, "Little Jane," a well-behaved charity-school orphan, supports herself as a maid, a shop girl, a flower girl, a milliner's apprentice, and a dancer, before becoming engaged to be "A happy little wife!" An ad in the 3 November 1869 issue of The Bookseller lists the volume as The Flexible-Faced Little Girl; or, One Head as Good as Eight and notes that, "the Face being elastic, may be made to appear jolly or moody, long or short, at pleasure, and to adapt itself in illustration to the reading." Illustrations are signed with either or both the names of "B[enjamin]. Clayton" and "F. E. Jones." The basic cut-out design of the "flexible face" series appeared among the earliest of Dean's toy books in the "Dame Wonder's Transformations" books of the 1840s, but the gutta-percha head was evidently a new addition in the mid to late 1860s. Dean & Sons was a leading publisher of mechanical and toy books and dominated the London movable book market from the 1840s through the 1870s. The firm was founded by Thomas Dean sometime before 1800 and was the first to make extensive use of lithography. The company operated under "Dean & Bailey" and then "Dean & Mundy" before, in 1848, becoming "Dean & Son" when son George joined the firm. In the 1860s they advertised themselves as being the "originator of childrens' movable books" (Montanaro, p. xv). Whether or not this was strictly true, they were certainly "the first publisher to produce movable books on a large scale" ("A Tour"). OCLC records just four copies, only one of which is in the United States, at the University of Washington. REFERENCES: "A Tour Through Their History: Dean and Son" at University of North Texas Library Exhibits online; Haining, Peter. Movable Books: An Illustrated History (New English Library Limited, 1979), pp. 2021; Montanaro, Ann R. Pop-Up and Movable Books: A Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 1993). …