[Rarebooks] F/S Two Scarce Color Illustrated Children's Books, An Alphabet & A Fairy Tale

[Austin]

For your consideration we offer the following net to all and postpaid at the prices below;


Isabel D… The Overland Alphabet. London: William Tegg & Co., printed by Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor, Lithographers and sold by Joseph Myers & Co., (1853). 
First edition; Quarto; pp; 20 unnumbered leaves, every other leaf is blank; hand-colored illustrations from sketches taken "en route" by Isabel D; pictorial tan boards, featuring the black and white version of the colored title page; Publisher's ad on outside lower cover for “King Nutcracker” by the author of “Struwwelpeter”; Account of a voyage from England to India, told in the form of a rhyming alphabet; gift inscription on front free endpaper dated 1854; Condition issues; spine worn away, boards detached but present with all preliminaries and following leaves, top edges boards chipped as are the very top edges of the leaves but not affecting any text, lacks the last leaf, “X Y Z”. Very scarce.										$100.00

Puss in Boots Picture Book - Four in One - Puss in Boots - the Three Little Pigs - the Cat and the Mouse - the Town Musicians. London, Marcus Ward & Co. (1893).
Octavo; pp; (50), unnumbered pages; profusely illustrated in color by E. Caldwell; quarter red cloth and slick pictorial color boards, blue coated endpapers; a bit of wear to the fore-edge of the upper board else a solid, bright, tight, clean copy; gift Inscription on front free endpaper dated 1898; The work contains Puss in boots.--The three little pigs.--The Cat and the Mouse.--The Town Musicians.						$125.00


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