Jun 15, 2023 - Sale 2641

Sale 2641 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Group of Nineteenth Century titles. Comprising: [KILNER, MARY ANN.] Memoirs of a Peg-Top. 27 woodcut text illustrations, most with crude partial hand-coloring. [3]-111 pages; lacks the frontispiece. 16mo, 118x78 mm, early 19th-century 1/2 leather, crudely rebacked at an early date, cover corners worn through; contents soiled and dampstained, 19th-century inscription on front endpaper, early owner's stamp on preliminaries, last leaf mounted. London: John Marshall and Co., [nd, 1790s?] [With:] ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. A Danish Story Book. Illustrated by Count Pocci. Small 8vo, blue cloth gilt. London, 1846 [And:] The King and Queen of Hearts: With the Rogueries of the Knave Who Stole the Queen's Pies. Illustrated. Printed wrappers, rebacked and sewn into later board folder; ex-Opie Collection, ex-Bodleian Library. London: Printed for M.J. Godwin, 1809 [And:] McGuffey's New Eclectic Spelling-Book. 8vo, cloth-backed decorated boards. Cincinnati/NY: Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., [nd] [And:] A Spelling Book, Formed Upon An Easy, Sysetematical Plan, and Designed for Small Children and Beginners. Paper-covered wooden boards, rebacked. Windsor, [VT]: Oliver Farnsworth, 1815 [And:] Mother Goose's Melodies: With Engravings. Decorated stiff wrappers. Philadelphia/Baltimore: Fisher & Brother, [nd] [And:] Mother Goose's Melodies: The Only Pure Edition. Hand colored illustrations. Flexible brown cloth-covered wrappers lettered in gilt. NY/Boston: C.S. Francis and Company, [nd] [And:] Group of 11 small pamphlets (each app. 95x65 mm), nursery rhymes and others. Various imprints. (18) Vp, vd