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(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) CHAMBERS, DAVID (compilor). An Infant's Library. 31 volumes. Illustrated with original woodcuts, block designs, etching, artwork or reproductions from earlier sources. 16mo (4 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches; 115 x 63 mm), variously bound in decorative wrappers, all contained within a single wooden bookcase, as issued, the sliding front panel with a pictorial paper title label by Pam G Rueter. [Pinner, Middlesex:] Cuckoo Hill Press, vd
limited to 70 sets, of which a very few were ever offered for sale, this homage to early 19th century children's boxed libraries was produced over a six year period by 30 members of the society of private printers (from Australia, England, Holland, Italy and the USA). The set comprises: 1.) Animal Proverbs... , Biscuit City Press, 1978: woodcuts by Fritz Eichenberg, signed by both illustrator and publisher; 2.) Het Hondengevecht , Bonnefant, 1978; 3.) Das Kleine Kinder ABC Buch , Brandywine Press [their first publication], 1979, with an original ink drawing as frontispiece; 4.) The Maiden from the 9th Heaven , Cherub Press, 1978; 5.) Words on Paper , Crabgrass Press, 1978; 6.) Jim's Kite , Cracked Bell Press, 1976; 7.) Castellorum Arenosorum , Cuckoo Hill Press, 1980: etched frontispiece; 8.) My Mysterious Father , Gogmagog Press, 1978; 9.) Life on the Farm , Press of the Golden Key, 1978; 10.) Tiddler to Teens , Happy Dragons Press, 1978; 11.) The Making of Matilda by Laurence Housman, Invicta Press, 1979; 12.) Memories of a Welsh Childhood by Lady Osborn, Keepsake Press, 1978; 13.) Eatum Peatum Penny Pie , Iain Bain at the Laverock Press, [n.d.]; 14.) I Spy With My Little Eye , Narbulla Agency, 1975; 15.) Two Moral Tales in Verse [after Heinrich Hoffmann], Pardoe, 1979; 16.) Three Little Ghostesses , Perdix Press, 1978; 17.) A Printer's Insects , The Perhaps Press, 1978, with signed wood-engravings by Jeremy Lee-Potter; 18.) A Apple Pie , The Plough Press, [n.d.]; 19.) The Riddle , P'Nye Press, 1978; 20.) Post Cards , Priapus Press, 1979; 21.) The Midnight Tryst , Proverbial Press, 1978; 22.) In Loco Pueri , The Pump Press, 1979; 23.) Sarah the Snow Queen , Quarto Press, 1979; 24.) A Bestiary for a Precocious Child , Scarlet Ibis Press, 1978; 25.) Layla and Majnun , Septentrio, 1978, 3 colored linocuts; 26.) Skool Rools , Susan Chambers at the Slow Camel Press, 1979; 27.) A Wendy-House Rehearsal , Stilt Press, 1979; 28.) London Cries, Peter Stockham, 1979; 29.) Marigold's Dream , Insegna della Tarasca, 1978; 30.) A Cradle Song by Thomas Dekker, Typographeum, 1978, music by Keith Kibler. The 31st volume is a short history of children's boxed libraries by Brian Alderson.
