41. Ellis, Edward S.

Through Forest and Fire.

First Edition. Philadelphia, Henry T. Coates & Co., 1891. 19.7cm x 13cm. iv, 302 pages. Original, illustrated hardcover. With frontispiece illustration. Endpapers and pastedowns illustrated in colour. Excellent, near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Endpaper inscribed by preowner. [Wild Woods Series No. 1].

42. Everard, Jappy.

Hoe de Bengels toch naar Zwitserland gingen. Geillustreerd door Miep de Feijter.

Amsterdam, H.J.W.Becht, c.1931 15 cm x 23.5 cm. 225 pages with illustrations. Original Illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. All illustrations have been coloured in colour- pencil by previous owner. A few annotations in colour-pencil on lists of other publications on endpaper. Name of pre-owner and stamp on the endpaper. Dutch Edition.

43. Ewing, Juliana Horatia.

Daddy Darwin’s Dovecot – A Country Tale. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.

First Edition. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1884]. 21.5cm x 15.8cm. 52 pages. With beautiful illustrations. Original Hardcover. Good condition with minor external signs of wear, such as some foxing and edge wear.

44. Farming-Game 19th century / Spiel 19.Jahrhundert /

Rural Economy – Stamped Figures for colouring / Die Landwirthschaft – Figuren zum Ausmalen / La Economia Rustica – Figuras recortados para colorear / L’Economie Rurale – Figures decoupees pour colorier. – Game No./ Spiel No. 1849 – Serie III. Deponiert.

Bilingual Cover for children in England, Germany, Spain and France. [Deutschland / Allemagne / Germany], [c. 1890]. 26 cm x 17 cm x 1,5 cm. 30 figures / 30 figuren. With original flexible metal – stands. Some of the figures painted with the original colour palette. Original Hardcover with lithographed cover (Farmer bringin in the hay). Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare agricultural children’s game ! / Shows farming scenes: Making butter, milking cows, Priest visiting, children playing, chicken, goats etc.

45. Farrar, Frederic W.

Eric, or, Little by Little. A Tale of Roslyn School. With an Introduction by John Rowe Townsend.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1971, 14.5 cm x 22.2 cm. 288 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor fading to upper and lower outer hardcover. Foxing and fading to edges and both endpapers. Fading to spine of dustjacket and minor fraying. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen’s Translator Erik Haugaard.

46. Ffolliott, Rosemary.

De Bever Hall – The Story of a Stately Dolls House. With photographs by Gordon Ledbetter.

First Edition. London, Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1976. Quarto. 75 pages with illustrations throughout. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author Rosemary Ffolliott ! Very rare and rather scarce as a signed edition !

47. Fitzpatrick, Percy.

Jock of the Bushveld. Illustrated by E. Caldwell.

5th Edition. London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1908. 16 cm x 21.5 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 475 pages. 23 illustrations on 23 plpates, including colour frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine and front board. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean. Preowner’s name and date on front pastedown: ‘Adeline G. Bowen – July 13th, 1909’. A very desirable copy in the original publisher’s binding. Extremely Rare in this very excellent condition.

48. Foster, Vere [Henry Louis / Lewis].

Vere Foster’s Copy Books: Lettering Plain and Ornamental.

London and Glasgow, Blackie & Son Limited, no year (c. 1870). Oblong – Octavo (21 cm x 17 cm). 24 pages with typographical Alphabets in Italic, Roman, Egyptian, Engrossing, Old English, German [Fraktur], Old English Ornamented, German Ornamented, Italic Ornamented, Roman Ornamented, Gothic Initials, Church Text, French, Celtic [also Gaelic, “Gaeilge”], Children’s Alphabet, etc. Softcover. Some fraying to wrapper. A little dusty but overall very good.

49. Foster, Vere [Henry Louis / Lewis].

Vere Foster’s Landscape Painting for Beginners. Two Volumes (complete set): [Volume I: First Stage – Teaching the Use of One Colour – Ten Facsimiles of Original Studies in Sepia by J.Callow and Numerous Illustrations in Pencil with Full Instructions in Easy Language. / Second Stage – Teaching the Use of Seven Colours – Twenty Facsimiles of Original Drawings by J.Callow and Many Illustrations in Pencil. With Full Instructions in Easy Language].

London / Glasgow and Bombay, Blackie & Son Limited, no year (c. 1890). Octavo (19 cm x 24 cm). Volume I: 40 pages with tipped in plates. / Volume II: 76 pages with tipped-in plates plus 4 pages of a Bookseller-Catalogue by Blackie & Son, to the rear of the Volume, listing all of Vere Foster’s Water-Colour Books, Vere Foster’s Drawing-Books etc. Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth with colourful illustrations to the front covers. Unusuall excellent condition (see images).

50. Friedman, Edwin H.

Friedman’s Fables. Includes 29-page booklet – “Friedman’s Fables: Discussion Questions”.

New York, The Guilford Press, 1990. 14 x 20.5cm. (8), 213 pages, with black and white text illustrations. Original hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition.