[Rarebooks] FS: 1st collected ed. of "Gammer Gurton's Pleasant Stories" w/6 plates. Westminster: 1845

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE) [Thoms, William John (comp.)]. GAMMER GURTON'S PLEASANT STORIES of Patient Grissel, The Princess Rosetta, & Robin Goodfellow, and Ballads of the Beggar's Daughter, the Babes in the Wood, and Fair Rosamond. Newly Revised and Amended by Amb. Mer. [i.e., Ambrose Merlin, Thoms' pseudonym]. Westminster: Printed for Joseph Cundall. (1845). Sm. 8vo. (100)pp. Plus a woodcut frontispiece and 5 woodcut plates (drawn by either of  John Franklin or John Absolon). Title printed in black & red within a floral woodcut border. Every page of text withe same border. Orig. blind-embossed blue cloth, stamped in gilt, hint of fraying at head & foot of spine. A bit of foxing, but still very good.    $125.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first collected edition by publisher Cundall under this title. These 5 stories were also issued separately.  No other copy for sale currently on-line.

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