Miniature Book Anonymous (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. SECOND EDITION circa 1920 (first published circa 1910 by Henry Frowde), miniature children's book approximately 79 x 69 mm, 3 x 2¾ inches, buff boards, large pretty extra colour plate on upper cover, green and mauve floral endpapers, 30 pages. Pretty coloured frontispiece, title page vignette. Small print green text for long and involved fairy tale. Spine worn with 10 mm (½") chip to head and tail, corners lightly rubbed, covers slightly dusty looking, diagonal crease to front endpaper and frontispiece, upper stitching to first gathering missing, joints between pages now neatly stuck, contents clean and bright. A good copy, no inscriptions. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback edition, miniature book 86 x 75 mm, 3¼ x 3 inches, 15 full page black and white illustrations, 31 pages including title page, bound in publisher's original shiny colour illustrated paper wraps cut flush, the three bears in front of their cottage to upper cover, lower cover red with Goldilocks eating the porridge, title on upper cover and spine. Although the bears are dressed on the upper cover, inside they are not (see images). Lower cover lightly creased, tiny crease to upper corner of upper cover, minute closed tear at top of spine, no inscriptions. A very good clean copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

SECOND EDITION circa 1920, miniature children's book approximately 79 x 70 mm, 3¼ x 2¾ inches, pale grey boards, extra colour plate of Esmeralda in Turkish costume on upper cover, green and mauve floral endpapers, 31 pages. Attractive coloured frontispiece, line vignette on title, unsigned. Poor little Esmeralda has been stolen to be the slave of a witch. Small childish scribble above Esmeralda on upper cover, frontispiece neatly pasted to reverse of front endpaper, front endpaper slightly damaged at lower corner (see image), no inscriptions, contents clean and bright. A very good plus clean crisp copy (marked on upper cover as noted). First published circa 1910 by Henry Frowde. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

SECOND EDITION circa 1919 (first published by Frowde circa 1911) miniature children's book approximately 66 x 58 mm, 2½ x 2¼ inches, green patterned boards, double string knot binding, pretty mounted colour plate showing discovery of the fairies' house, green and mauve floral endpapers, 32 pages. Coloured frontispiece showing 2 elves, title illustration in green line. Little boy finds fairies' house under the cabbage leaves when they steal his ball and clockwork mouse. Spine and edges of boards slightly rubbed with very small loss of surface paper on spine and on lower corner of lower board, ink name stamped on reverse of front endpaper, frontispiece holding only on lower string, page 29 holding only on upper string. A good plus copy. Items in this little series are often found lacking the frontispiece as with use the string cuts through its inner margin. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. SECOND EDITION circa 1920 (first published by Henry Frowde in 1911), SMALL format, approximately 91 x 74 mm, 3½ x 2¾ inches, coloured frontispiece, green vignette and lettering on title page, text printed green throughout, 32 pages, bound in original publisher's pale green boards, large colour plate mounted on upper cover with title, floral patterned endpapers in mauve and green. Two very tiny scrapes to upper cover, no inscriptions, last letter missing on 7 lines on page 16 due to adhesion to inner edge of page 17 (binding flaw, see image), no loss of legibility. A very good plus clean tight copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

SECOND EDITION inscribed 1919 (first published circa 1910 by Henry Frowde), miniature children's book approximately 79 x 69 mm, 3 x 2¾ inches, grey boards, large pretty extra colour plate on upper cover, green and mauve floral endpapers, 32 pages. Lovely coloured frontispiece of a haughty princess and a witch, title page vignette. Small print green text for long involved fairy tale in which a witch gets upset and a princess refuses the suitor chosen for her in favour of a thin young man with a wooden leg. Faintest spotting to upper cover, neat inscription on reverse of frontispiece (no show through), tiny pale stain to 1 lower margin corner. A near Fine copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

SECOND EDITION circa 1920 (first published by Henry Frowde in 1911), miniature children's book approximately 79 x 68 mm, 3 x 2¾ inches, buff boards, extra colour plate mounted on upper cover, mauve and green floral endpapers, 30 pages. Attractive coloured frontispiece: a fairy addresses 3 small children, line vignette on title. Lower cover and spine very slightly discoloured, untidy inscription on reverse of front endpaper and reverse of frontispiece (no show through, see image), contents clean and bright, one inner joint cracked, binding tight and firm. A very good plus tight copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

FIRST EDITION circa 1910 (reprinted by Humphrey Milford circa 1919), miniature children's book approximately 67 x 59 mm, 2½ x 2¼ inches, purple boards, double string knot binding, large pretty extra colour plate mounted on upper cover, green and mauve floral endpapers, 31 pages. Coloured frontispiece and line vignette on title page. A dream fairy tale about little Lucinda and the penalties of prying. Pencil name and date 1914 on reverse of frontispiece, otherwise a Fine crisp clean copy. Items in this little series are often found lacking the frontispiece as with use the string cuts through its inner margin. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

SECOND EDITION circa 1919 (first published circa 1910 by Henry Frowde), miniature children's book approximately 67 x 59 mm, 2½ x 2¼ inches, buff boards, double string knot binding, large colour plate on upper cover of the cat in doublet and hose, pretty green and mauve floral endpapers, 31 pages. Charming coloured frontispiece of a shepherd boy dancing with a shepherdess, vignette to title page, all text printed green. Lower cover lightly stained, minute hole in lower hinge, no inscriptions. A very good plus clean tight copy. The cat becomes court jester and has his simple friends promoted to be Lord and Lady but they get bored and return to their humble life. The cat rises very high at court but is overthrown and he too returns gratefully to the cottage hearth. Items in this little series are often found lacking the frontispiece as with use the string cuts through its inner margin. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

FIRST EDITION circa 1911 (reprinted by Humphrey Milford circa 1919), miniature children's book approximately 66 x 58 mm, 2½ x 2¼ inches, light brown boards, double string knot binding, large extra colour plate mounted on upper cover showing 2 gnomes, green and mauve floral endpapers, 31 pages. Coloured frontispiece and line vignette on title page. A fairy tale. No inscriptions, upper cover faded around mounted plate, contents very nice. A very good clean copy. Items in this little series are often found lacking the frontispiece as with use the string cuts through its inner margin. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

2 works in 1 volume, edition unknown circa 1838 (date at foot of spine), miniature book approximately 70 x 42 mm, 3 x 1¾ inches, LACKING HALF THE DOUBLE PAGE FOLDING HAND COLOURED FRONTISPIECE OF THE RED CROSS KNIGHT, present is the title page with hand coloured vignette: "The Light Guitar". In 2 parts, pages: (2), (9)-146, including 5 page index; (9)-146 including 5 page index, PART II LACKING FOLDING FRONTISPIECE AND TITLE PAGE, bound in full red leather, gilt rules and gilt title to spine, pink endpapers. No music. Tiny chip at tail of spine, 20 mm (¾") crack at foot of lower hinge, leather slightly stained, corners slightly worn, faint inscription and old sums on front endpapers, rear endpapers slightly soiled, fore-edge of title page well thumbed as are many pages, mainly near beginning, light stain to margin of pages 52, 54 and 55, all easily legible, many pages dusty, some very lightly soiled, name in ink in top margin of page 101, another on page 52 of Part II, final page of index in Part II browned. A good set of 2 uncommon titles (frontispiece defective in Part I, frontispiece and title page lacking in Part II). Copac lists a few copies of The Little English Warbler, first published in 1803 in Edinburgh by Oliver & Co.; Welsh, Bibliography of Miniature Books, No. 4443 listing only The Little English Warbler; Bondy, Miniature Books, page 150 listing only The Little Warbler "the best known English collection of songs" published in Edinburgh in 1803. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

A scarce miniature book in the original full leather binding. 32mo. 7.3cm x 5.7cm x 1.8cm [3.0" x 2.25" x 0.75"] . 2pp./pp.256 . Dark brown calf. Edges and corners lightly rubbed and bumped. Small ink splashes along the top edge. Smooth spine with gilt title and decoration. All page edges gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Original yellow endpapers. Engraved frontis facing an engraved title-page, both lightly soiled. Printed title-page undated. Colophon to verso of title-page "Chiswick Press: C. Whittingham, College House." Clean English text throughout. A Collection of 246 poems and indexes. Date suggested by Bodleian Library.

FIRST EDITION 1974, EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, THIS BEING No. 182. Miniature book approximately 31 x 31 mm, 1¼ x 1¼ inches, thin yellow paper wraps, title printed green on upper cover, printing history and limitation in green on lower cover, title page and 11 full page illustrations in blue, yellow, black and white including the inside of the lower cover, text of rhyme below images. No inscription, a Fine clean copy in the orginal colour patterned cardboard box, also Fine. From the library of Stanley Marcus, US businessman and collector of miniature books with his tiny bookplate inside the upper cover. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

SECOND EDITION circa 1919 (first published by Henry Frowde circa 1910), miniature book, approximately 64 x 55 mm, 2½ x 2¼ inches, pink boards, string binding as issued, pretty mounted colour plate of dolly, green and red holly patterned endpapers, 63 pages. Coloured frontispiece showing dolly in a different outfit, title illustration and tailpiece in line (unsigned). Mabel May whose nursery is packed with dolls of all kinds whom she severely ill-treats, is taught a lesson by a new arrival. Spine a touch faded, no inscriptions, contents bright and clean. A Fine crisp copy in Fine slipcase with repeat colour plate. Books in this little series are often found lacking frontispiece as with use the string cuts through its inner margin. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

FIRST EDITION (1905), miniature book, 79 x 79 mm, 3 x 3 inches, grass green cloth, red, black and white illustration to upper cover, top edges red, 83 pages. 20 very jolly colour plates each facing text or verse, both printed on thick card, 1 side only. Contains Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack the Giant Killer and 2 nursery rhymes featuring Jack. 4 very small barely visible splashes to upper cover, no inscriptions. A near Fine clean tight copy, quite scarce. No. 9 in a list of 9 Humpty Dumpty Books for Children inside upper cover, 'The prettiest Child Books in the world'. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Edition unknown, (1797), miniature book, 24mo, approximately 95 x 57 mm, 3¾ x 2¼ inches, French text, engraved hand coloured allegorical title page with Cupid, Beaute, Decence and 5 putti, foliage etc., 12 engraved HAND COLOURED PLATES, some allegorical, 8 pages of almanac at front, 8 at rear, dated from September 1797 to August 1798, plus 48 pages of little verses numbered thus: 12, [24], 13-24. Most of the verses are preceded by the name of a tune or 'Air' to which they should be sung. Bound in dark olive green morocco, triple gilt ruled border with tiny corner ornaments to covers, gilt decoration to spine, no lettering or label, all edges gilt, gilt and orange floral pastedowns, no endpapers. Slightly worn at head of spine and corners, tiny chip at tail of spine, old paper strip used inside rear cover to recase contents in the binding, title page dusty in the margins, bookseller's label pasted to blank verso of title page, 1 or 2 pale fox spots, plates very nice. A good complete copy of an uncommon book, one copy in the French Libraries, none in WorldCat, none listed in Library Hub Discover, it is mentioned in a list of French Almanacs in the Journal général de la littérature de France, Volume 2, page 218. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.