Miniatures, booklets and woodcuts. THE NONESUCH PRESS. 'Hist...

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Miniatures, booklets and woodcuts. THE NONESUCH PRESS. 'Histories or Tales of Past Times Told by Mother Goose,' limited edition 467/1250, cloth backed boards, colour frontis, hand coloured woodcuts, The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925; CHARLES LAMB. 'Beauty and the Beast,' thin card wraps, plates, Field & Tuer, London, n.d; 'Prince Dorus,' original publishers thin card wraps, loss to spine, hand coloured facsmile illustrations, The Leadenhall Press, London, 1890-1; 'Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper,' thin card wraps, colour illustrations, Griffith and Farran, London, 1977; With fourteen other booklets including minature books, a thumb bible, and others. (18)

The thumb bible lacks title page for the 'Old Testament' and starts on p6. 'A Concise History of the New Testament,' printed for W. Harris, London, 1774.  'Little Book of Foreign Animals: the Zoological Gardens, Regents Park,' by C. Williams, numerous plates, C. Tilt, London, [c.1835]. 'The Little Picture Bible and New Testament,' by Isabella Child, numerous plates, Charles Tilt, London, [c.1835]

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