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[JUVENILE.]
Il piccolo Carlo, o novelle e conversazioni della prima infanzia.
Besançon, [Antonio] Montarsolo e Comp., [c. 1830].
Very rare Besançon-printed edition of these moral tales for children framed within the context of a parent–child dialogue, our copy presented by a father to his daughter.
£450
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[LOUIS XVI.]
Le vertueux Louis XVI; précis de ses douleurs, suivi de détails peu connus sur son illustre famille.
Lille, L. Lefort, [1817].
A seemingly unrecorded royalist panegyric-cum-almanack, provincially printed at Lille in the wake of the Bourbon Restoration.
£475
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HIBBERD, James Shirley.
The Garden Oracle and floricultural Year Book … 24th annual issue.
London, Gardener’s Magazine Office, 1882.
Edited by James Shirley Hibberd (1825–1890), one of the most successful Victorian gardening writers, founder of the Amateur Gardener and editor of the Gardener’s Magazine, the Vegetarian Advocate, and the Floral World and Garden Guide.
£100
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SHOBERL, Frederic, editor.
Forget me not; a Christmas and New Year’s, and Birth-Day Present for MDCCCXXXI …
London, [Thomas Davison for] R[udolph] Ackermann, 1831.
The Anglo-German publisher Rudolph Ackermann’s literary annual Forget-me-not for 1831, instrumental in introducing to English readers the concept of the German ‘gift book’, borrowing ‘from the French almanack and the German Taschenbüch to create the format of the first British-published...
£150
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SPENSER, Edmund.
The Works of Edmund Spenser.
Oxford, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1930 [–1932].
Limited edition, numbered 123 of 375 copies, of the handsome Shakespeare Head Spenser, one of the most significant works of the press.
£875
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MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.
Beyond this Limit …
[London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].
First edition. This was Lewis’s only collaboration with Mitchison but she arranged for the publication of his Left Wings over Europe the following year, and they remained friends until his death. 32 designs by Lewis served as the inspiration for Mitchison’s narrative.
£75
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ELLIOTT, Mary [née Belson].
Simple Truths, in Verse; for the Amusement and Instruction of Children at an early Age …
London: William Darton, sold also by Harvey and Darton … and John Harris … [c. 1825].
‘Fourth edition, corrected and revised’. Elliott was an extremely prolific author for Darton. These poems are settings of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Hymns in Prose for Children (1791).
£200