The Globe Alphabet. Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books by [AUNT LOUISA] VALENTINE, Laura - 1880

London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1868. Cloth. Fair. 10.5" by 9". Kronheim; Dalziels. A beautifully illustrated early edition of this collection of nursery rhymes for children, by Laura Valentine. Early edition. Dated using the British Library. Illustrated with twenty-three plates printed in oil colours. Collated missing frontispiece. Including: Sing a Song o' Sixpence, The Robin's Christmas Eve, Robin Hood & his Merry Men, and The Sea Side. Written by Laura Valentine, under the pen name Aunt Louisa, a Victorian English writer known for her children's literary series. Illustrated by Kronheim and Dalziels. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, worn with bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Some loss to the cloth on the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with light age toning. Frontispiece and title page have been removed. Fair

London. Frederick Warne & Co., Bedford Street, Strand, [ no date - c.1875 ] .. A very good Victorian binding. Gilt cover illustration and titles. Some wear, hinges carefully strengthened at some time in the past. Previous owner's name to top of title-page. 4to, [6pp.]/pp.5/[2pp.]/pp.6/[2pp.]/pp.6/[2pp.]/pp.6 + 24 chromolithographic plates. All pages linen backed. 27.0cm x 23.8cm x 2.1cm. James notes this is probably by EVB. Publication date from Osborne Coll. Comprising Little Dame Crump, Hush-A-Bye Baby, Childhood Delight, Tottie's Nursery Rhymes with Twenty-Four pages of illustrations printed in Colours and Gold From Original Designs by M. Tilsley. Date taken from English Catalogue of Books. Chromolithographed plates are with signatures: "MT" [i.e. M. Tilsley] and "EB". Plates are with guard sheets. "Aunt Louisa" was a pseudonym of Laura Valentine, general editor of Warne's publishing house. * Referenced by: Osborne Coll. p. 689 ** "Attributed to Laura Valentine and dated by the Bodleian… Read More

London.: Frederick Warne & Co., circa 1870 . Pictorial wraps with cloth back strip.. Very good, some soiling and wear, repaired tear to front cover. . 25.7x22.4 cm. . 5 chromolithograph plates.

London, Frederick Warne & Co., (1867).. FIRST EDITION circa 1867 (no titles on adverts later than 1866, inscribed Dec. 25th 1868), 280 x 190 mm, 11 x 7½ inches, cloth backed pale yellow boards, repeat illustration on upper cover, engraved frontispiece with 2 images and 19 large charming engraved illustrations (uncoloured) all of sweet children, happy, sad, shy, cross, reading etc., each with descriptive verse below, printed 1 side only. Boards a bit rubbed, lightly soiled and marked, corners worn and rounded, small chip to surface and small red stain to lower cover, small light stain to upper cover at lower edge, spine slightly worn at head and tail with tiny nicks to cloth, neat inscription on front endpaper, contents otherwise bright and clean. A good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Routledge, Warne, & Routledge. London. 1860. New Edition. 12mo.. pp. (iv), 124. Engraved frontispiece and title. Original cloth now much faded and a bit marked, the front joint weak and the lacking the front free end-paper, a working copy. *SCARCE - COPAC gives 2 locations : BL and Cambridge.

London.: Frederick Warne & Co., c1870.. wraps.. good only; light soil, spine half gone, light foxing through out.. sq4to..

London.: Frederick Warne & Co., circa 1870.. pictorial wraps with cloth back strip.. very good; some wear to corners. back strip soiled small (.5x1.5 inch) piece missing at center spine of front cover.. 4to..

London, Warne and Co., (1880).. Circa 1880, 4to, 270 x 230 mm, 10½ x 9 mm, green cloth, illustrated gilt and black, lettered gilt upper cover and spine, 24 pages of large print text with small decorative motifs. 24 very attractive colour plates designed by M. Tilsley. Each plate is divided in 2 parts vertically within gilt border, the larger section (2/3) is printed on gilt ground. Plates and text pages printed 1 side only. Contains Little Dame Crump; Hush-a-Bye Baby; Childhood's Delight; and Tottie's Nursery Rhymes. Expertly recased with matching cloth spine, original backstrip laid down, corners slightly worn, tiny chip to cloth at top edge of upper board, a few marks to cloth on lower board. Tiny tear to margin of 1st plate, repaired, rear endpaper slightly frayed at edges. A very good plus copy. Osborne II,689. The book is made up of numbers 66, 67, 68 and 69 of Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

London, Warne & Co., 1868.. FIRST EDITION 1868 (date printed on title page), 4to, 270 x 230 mm, 10½ x 9 inches, red cloth, blind stamped and gilt decorated to upper cover, ornate central gilt panel, another for spine title, all edges gilt, pages linen mounted. 24 very good colour plates printed by 'Kronheim and Dalziels' for 4 stories: Sing a Song o' Sixpence, The Robin's Christmas Eve, Robin Hood and his Merry Men (13 images on 6 plates) and The Sea Side (11 images on 6 plates). Old amateur repair to 5 mm (½") of cloth at head and tail of spine, spine edges and corners slightly worn, 2 small splits to upper hinge neatly glued, dark stain to lower cover 70 x 90 mm, (3½" x 3"), front and rear inner paper hinges partly cracked, binding firm. Occasional pencil scribble to blanks, most erased, text pages slightly browned, occasionally quite foxed. Inscription dated 1869 on front endpaper. A good plus tight copy. Although the plates of The Sea Side are in the autumnal colours typical of Kronheim the… Read More

London, Warne; New York, Scribner and Co., (1867).. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION circa 1867, dated from inscription on another copy and titles at rear, small 4to, 280 x 185 mm, 11 x 7¼ inches, green cloth, gilt and blind decoration to upper cover, lettered on gilt panel on upper cover, all edges gilt, pages: (6), 19, printed 1 side only. Hand coloured frontispiece and 19 enchanting large HAND COLOURED illustrations by German artist Pletsch depicting young children: playing together and with toys and books, in various moods, bashful, shy, ill humoured etc., each with 8-line verse below. Originally published in Germany mid 1860s. Gilt slightly dull, corners slightly worn, 2 minute nicks to cloth at tail of spine, front inner paper hinge partly cracked, binding sound, small corner cut off front endpaper above a neat early inscription, tiny pink stain on title page, short closed tear to title page margin, short closed tears to lower edge of a few centrefolds, closed tear (80 mm, 3¼") to inner margin of page… Read More