Childrens Chapbook (16 results)

c. early to mid 1800s. 8 pp. Three small engravings, hand colored. 4-3/8" x 2-3/4" A VG copy. The engravings are hand colored (presumable by the child who owned it). Small coloring to wrappers (red to upper, blue to verso). Some light chipping to head and tail of back strip, corners bumped. Some burn(?) marks to p. 4 and 5 as well as a closed tear to middle of page three. Light soiling to leaves. Pos to head of title page - penciled. Otherwise bright and legible. Original publishers green wrappers, sewn. Printed in black. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.…

Ca early to mid 1800s. 8 pp. Six engravings throughout. 4-3/8" x 2-3/4" A VG copy. Some soiling/age toning to wrappers and leaves, engravings have been colored, a penciled pos to head of title page. Otherwise, internally bright. Original publishers, yellow printed wrappers, sewn. Printed in black. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. …

Ca 1858 - 1876. 8 pp. Cut, p. 1. 32mo. 3-7/16" x 2-5/16" OCLC records just one institutional holding (AAS) of this publication. General wear & soiling to wrappers. A VG copy. Original publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers, sewn. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.

Wraps. Condition: Fine. Presentation copy, signed in pencil: "Presented by Lucia A. Peabody, Teacher in 1847". 24mo, 16pp complete, with an alphabet and woodblock illustrations in text. Illustrated pale pink wraps, title in black, with advertising for Rufus Merrill New and Amusing Toys at rear cover.…

Ca 1840s, cf. American Imprints 41-4164. 24 pp. Illustrated with cuts. 12mo. 5-3/4" x 3-3/4" Some wear & soiling to wrappers. Abrasion to rear wrapper lower edge, and few adjoining leaves. Withal, a VG copy. Printed pink paper wrappers, sewn. Pictorial border, with one vignette of 3 boys playing baseball. Rear wrapper with advert for Babcock's 'Toy and Juvenile Books'. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.…

16 pp. Illustrated with 4 cuts, 1 full-page. 16mo. 4-5/16" x 2-3/4" Modest wear & soiling to wrappers, with a small abrasion to front wrapper & a spot to rear wrapper. Period poi to t.p. top margin. A pleasing VG - VG+ copy. Original buff paper wrappers, printed in red, sewn. Ornamental border to front wrapper. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve Ca 1856 to 1868. OCLC records one instutional holding: AAS.…

Condition: Very good condition. Children's chapbook with the fox, horse, lion, cat, dog, catamount, tiger, and elephant. 16mo pamphlet, sewn, 10pp. Original blue printed wrappers, with "A Present. Tis a very good present, A nice little toy, For a sweet young girl, Or a brave little boy", and decorative borders; lion and rabbit at rear wrapper. With plain brown paper wrapper over blue wrappers, small perforation at front wrapper. Previous owner name inside blue wrapper.…

[2 (blank)], 27, [3 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with 11 cuts. 16mo. 5-1/2" x 3-5/8" Minor wear & soiling to wrappers. Usual bit of foxing & age-toning. A solid VG copy. Printed orange wrappers, sewn. Woodcut vignette to front wrapper; rear wrappers with 2 cuts, both of a patriotic theme. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve Later edition. Not in the Spencer Collection Catalogue.…

61, [3 (blank)] pp. Wood-engraved illustration p. [4] signed "FEW" (i.e., Fernando Edwards Worcester); p. 41 signed "Gordon sc." (i.e., John G. Gordon?). 8vo. 5-1/2" x 4-5/8" Contents: 1. The Owl; 2. John Grant's Return from Sea; 3. Little Frank and the Rat; 4. Frank and a Field Mouse; 5. A True Tale of a Little Girl Who Fell into a Tan-Pit; 6. The Useful Dog; 7. George and Rose's Long Walk; 8. The Glow-Worm; 9. A Tale of the North. Wrappers show wear & soiling, with edge rash. Foxing & browing throughout. Period poi to preliminary blank. A Good-plus copy. Printed light blue coated paper covers. Bright yellow eps. Publisher series advert to back wrapper [listing 6 titles] 1st printing, ca mid 1840s. OCLC records two holding institutions: Am Phil Soc & Peabody Essex.…

36 pp. Front wrapper with ornamental border & woodcut vignette. T.p. cut, 19 additional cuts, 3 full page. 5-1/2" x 3-7/16" General wear & soiling. Some minor browning & foxing. Very Good. Printed pale green covers, sewn. "2 1/2 cents" printed to rear cover upper left. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve Ca. 1829 - 1832 (cf. AAS Catalog Record #246852). Not in Rosenbach.…

16 pp. A single unopened- folded sheet, showing the fold pattern employed for the gathering. Woodcut vignette to p. 1 (cf. OCCL, p. 106, where this chapbook is depicted). Head- tailpieces. 8vo. 6-1/4" x 3-7/8" Age-toning to paper. Stab holes along spine fold. Faint stain in upper right of gathering. Withal, a VG copy. Printed self wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve Ca 1790s. Cf. Cropper 17; ESTC N9051; Gumuchian 6233; Osborne, p. 614; Spencer Catalogue, p. 54. …

1st printing (ESTC T155709), ca 1800. 16 pp. Untrimmed. Woodcut vignette to title page. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5" Per the ESTC, "Evans became printer to the Cheap Repository in December 1797; the form J. Evans and Co. was used from 1799. Hatchard was at 173 Piccadilly until July 1801. Very Rare, ESTC does not list any US holdings, and only one in the UK [Cambridge]. Age-toning & foxing throughout. Very Good. Self-wrappers, sewn. "Price One Penny" Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

Wraps. Condition: Good +. Unusual child's picture book with each letter of the alphabet accompanied by an animal wood cut illustration, each on a blank backed page. With a kangaroo mother with joey for the letter "K", and quite a few other exotic animals, including the panther from Robinson Crusoe known as "Xury's Lion". Other animals used to illustrate the letters of the alphabet include: the Ichneumon (northern African mongoose), the jackal, lion, Nyl-Ghau (the largest Asian antelope), the ourang-outang, pig, quagga (an extinct South African zebra), rabbits, squirrels, tiger, urus (Germanic name for wild ox), vampyre (sic), wolf, Xury's-lion (sic), yak, and zebra. Xury's lion is a reference to an animal in 'Robinson Crusoe'; actually a panther, it refers to the animal which frightened the slave boy Xury and which was shot by Crusoe. The vampyre page with a large "V" and sardonic looking flying bat. 24mo, not paginated but each letter printed on one page, with the verso blank. Twenty six pages plus 2 pp of alphabet and an advertisement. Also with an engraved title page, and front wrapper. Advertisement for Joseph Lyons, "Designer, engraver and fine book and wood cut engraver" at the last page, printed in a variety of elaborate type fonts and with his address at Arch Street Hall, Philadelphia. Illustrated pale pink wrappers, title in black, lacking the rear wrapper. Booklet rubbed at edges front cover; the front cover has been pinned to the following pages! Booklet has then been hand stitched; there is a front wrapper only. Not recorded in World Cat or in Trove.…

1st printing thus, ca 1830s. 32, [4] pp. Last 4 pages adverts for titles published by R. Miller, 37, Harleyford Place, Kennington. Folding color frontispiece. 16mo. 5-3/8" x 3-1/2" "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" is a folk tale in Arabic added to the One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab. As one of the most popular Arabian Nights tales, it has been widely retold and performed in many media across the world, especially for children (for whom the more violent aspects of the story are often removed). In the original version, Ali Baba is a poor woodcutter and an honest person who discovers the secret treasure of a thieves' den, and enters with the magic phrase "open sesame". The thieves try to kill Ali Baba while his rich and greedy brother Cassim tries to steal the treasure for himself, but Ali Baba's faithful slave-girl Morgiana foils their plots. His son marries her, and Ali Baba keeps the secret of the treasure." [Wiki] This an uncommon, apparently unrecorded, edition by Carvalho. Others editions recorded by him are in but a single copy. General wear, with front wrapper beginning to detach at top. Sympathetic blue paper reinforcement to spine; corners restored. POI, dated 1886. With a nod to the detaching cover, an otherwise VG copy. Original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

[3] - 31, [1]. Lacks A1, chapbook begins with title leaf. Last page affixed to rear cover, which is detached. Illustrated with cuts. 16mo. 4" x 2-1/2" Rare, ESTC shows just the AAS copy; Welch adds Newark Public Library. At the time of cataloguing, RBH's database shows no copies of this 18th C. edition as coming before the trade. A copy of the 1796 edition [Welch 1315.14] fetched low 4-figures, back in 1988. Period poi to left side of t.p. [concluding with "Templeton, AD 1813"]. PO annotations to A2v. Rear wrapper backed with fine weave mull, with some minor loss to text. Age-toning. A Good copy of this survivor. Lacks front cover, with paste-paper rear cover. Once placed in grey card stock boards, now all housed in an archival mylar sleeve "The Second Worcester Edition" (Evans 27800; Welch 1315.12). Not in Rosenbach, though see 185, for a 1794 Samuel Hall edition. …

9,6x8 cm. 16 pp. Illustrated with woodcuts by Alexander Anderson. Publisher's stiff printed grey wrappers, spine worn otherwise very good.