Children's Books And Pop-Ups from Abbey Antiquarian Books

Esslingen: J.F.S.i.E. (J.F. Schreiber) Nr. 65, undated. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Animals on a fullpage blue background with titlepage + 20 leaves each cut across the figures to make amusing impossible animals. . 19.5 by 13.0cm cover depicts a top-hatted monkey within an orange background holding an open book on a table with an ink stand and pens. Each… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875. Hardcover. Fair. Brilliant colour-printed Frontispiece + 15 plates by Richard Doyle engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.. Folio (28x38cm) green gilt pictorial cloth (repaired and most of front cover and spine relaid, front cover damp-marked) Edges Gilt, [4]+31 leaves. Most neatly cut and pasted on larger gilt-edged leaves, except for 9 full-page… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1883. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Full-page frontis (with tissue guard) + over 300 text illustrations, some signed by E.H. Garrett and A.B. Shelte.. Octavo red cloth gilt titles with black stamped design of angry men in rowboats threatening passing paddle steamer (professionally repaired in 2003), ownership label "Charles Clegg" tipped in and pencil inscription… Read more about this item

People's Edition Pr.Clay: Macmillan 56th thousand, 1898. Hardcover. Good/None. Frontispiece and text illustrations (50) by John Tenniel.. 186x121mm green pictorial cloth with Humpty Dumpty to cover (tips sl.worn but very bright) 215pp including catalogue. Slight ocassional pale foxing, corner of pp113/4 torn away with loss of a few words. REP & 2 other pages with faint pencilings.

London: Boots/Hodder&Stoughton, 1929 by inscr.). Hardcover. Good/None. Colour plates tipped in (12)+ 2-colour text illustrations by Gwynedd M. Hudson.. Large Quarto (265x205mm) blue pictoral gilt cloth (tips slightly worn) [6]+180pp endpapers foxed, bookplate 'Joyce Mellows' dated 1929 on FEP. Some fore-edge foxing, 30mm tear without loss on first leaf after title, else V.G. *Beautiful colour plates by Hudson,… Read more about this item

London: David Bogue 1st edition, 1853. Softcover. Very Good. Hand-coloured etched plates (6 plates with 8 scenes) by George Cruikshank.. 176x135mm grey-green card covers with pictorial upper cover; lower cover with first & third titles only of the four. The fourth title was never published by Bogue but only by Routlege etc. (covers with pale stain to corner/partial… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Kobunsha, 2 Minami Saegicho, first edition, later printing, 1887 Meiji 20. Softcover. Good. Colour illustrations (17 of which 2 are full page) Japanese art.. 181x123mm in larger plain paper (not crepe) format with original silk ties to spine (covers bit dusty) [26]pp incl. covers some corner creases within margin. Pages printed one side only and folded at… Read more about this item

London: David Bogue 1st edition first issue, 1853. Softcover. Very Good. Etched plates (6 plates with 9 scenes) by George Cruikshank. 176x135mm grey-green card covers with pictorial upper cover; lower cover with second title "preparing for publication" (tips rubbed/cover dusty) 30pp some foxing.

Boston/New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1892. Very Good. Plates (4) + text illustrations by Katherine R. Wireman.. Octavo quarter cloth pictorial boards (damp damaged & bit deformed) 66pp damp tide mark. Titlepage loose, binding loose across book. Some foxing but no impact on text a litte staining to the centre of all pages, but at its worst… Read more about this item

Munich: Braun & Schneider, 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. 8 moveable plates by Lothar Meggendorfer.. Folio brown cloth pictorial boards (corners bumped/tips worn) 9 leaves. Introduction reads "All sorts of things for young and old meet you here". The moveable pictures are: [1] Goat herd playing pipes (new pull tab + 1 renewed wire), [2] Hercules fighting lion, [3]… Read more about this item

Cardiff: [W. H. Smith & Son] printed by William Lewis, Cardiff, 1944 acc to British Library. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Colour cover + titlepage + text illustrations throughout by Grace Couch.. Oblong 8vo paper-covered boards, light yellow cloth spine, rear cover with list of Six Spikey Books (this is #3) Charmingly illustrated in full colour. Tips bumped, slight edge-rubbing,… Read more about this item

London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1875 approx.. Softcover. Very Good-. Colour pages (12) with text and music printed by Dalziel Bros, Camden Press. Quarto [285 x 246mm] "Varnished" Pictorial card covers with black children at the seaside in a roundelle + mother and girls, one on a donkey in a square, & title on a… Read more about this item

London: Ernest Nister, 1891. Hardcover. Good. Chromolith plates [5 of 6 lacks "say good-bye" plate, frontis misbound] + b/w illustrations by A.E. Jackson, Louis Wain et al.. 156x100mm green cloth spined pictorial boards (edges worn corners rounded/scratched) 132pp.

London: Published by the Proprietor, 1824. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved frontis + 11 plates with 11 flaps) lifting to show scene of virtue as engraved by Wright or Armstrong after the drawings by W.G.(William Grimaldi). STACEY GRIMALDI's copy with his bookplate to pastedown. 174x102mm [=page size] half tan roan gilt on wide raised bands.Spine compartments floral gilt and… Read more about this item

London: Griffith,Farran Okeden & Walsh Newbery Toy Books, 1890's. Hardcover. Very Good. engravings to each page (many full-page others in the text) by M.E.Edwards, Knesing, G.Bott etc.. 237x187mm red cloth spined glazed color pictorial cover [girl with puppies & kitten in her apron & 4 further puppies on the path beside her] Lower cover b/w pictorial advertisement for… Read more about this item

London: Strand Publ(, 1948). Hardcover. Very Good. pop up models (5) Tower London +Fairy Cottage +Toucan +Gnome Carpenter + Xmas Pud. 8vo pictorial boards(tips sl.worn pictorial covers bright) 1st story=Vulcan.. *Text to the tower of London is on different & thinner paper & uncharacteristically has photographic illustrations. With rare 2nd publisher's directions for looking at the fairy in… Read more about this item

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge - Richard Clay, Printer, Bread Street Hill, 1856 approx (acc. To Oxford Bodley). Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo (184x110mm) original school buckram with printed title NEW SERIES - ENGLISH HISTORY to front cover (edges worn/spine rebacked in matching old cloth) xii (incl. half title, Titlepage & contents) +324pp. Some foxing and fingering, lacks free… Read more about this item

New York & Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1st edition first printing, 1927. Hardcover. Good. full page color plates [14 by Margaret Evans Price + 100 color illustrations between 11x9cm to 19x14cm. 4to green cloth with near full page color onlay to cover spine gilt titled [corners rubbed/onlay slightly marked] half title to recto of frontisplate & titlepage… Read more about this item

London: Routledge, owner ink dated Jan.[18]'83. Softcover. Good. colour plates (6) + full page sepia line illustrations to by Caldecott printed by Edmund Evans. 210x235mm pictorial card cover. Lower cover with three pinprick size holes. {covers sl.dusty/two leaves with two pinsize holes reducing to one hole for three leaves.[ 24 pages with gift inscription dated Jan. [18]'83] A… Read more about this item

London: Ernest Nister /New York E.P.Dutton & o., 1900 circa. Hardcover. Good. Chromoliths [4 full-page + cover] + line illustrations in the text.. Near-Miniature, 92x80mm pink cloth spined pictorial board (corner bit creased but no loss] [12pp] Nister No. 1396