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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

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Infant's Library

RARE, COMPLETE SET OF THE INFANT’S LIBRARY, SIXTEEN MINIATURE BOOKS FROM THE DAWN OF CHILDREN’S PUBLISHING, HOUSED IN ORIGINAL PAINTED WOODEN BOOKCASE

(MARSHALL, John, publisher). The Infant's Library. London, circa 1800. Sixteen volumes.

Complete set of The Infant’s Library, early children’s book publisher John Marshall’s clever collection of sixteen miniature volumes “for the instruction and amusement of young people,” housed in their original wooden bookcase with painted sliding panel. Excellent, significant and rare. $16,000.

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Admirable Curiosities, Rarities and Wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland

THE “FIRST REAL EFFORT TO PROVIDE CHILDREN WITH READING-MATTER”

[CROUCH, Nathaniel]. Admirable Curiosities, Rarities and Wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland. London, 1710.

Later edition of this collection of British historical narratives for children, with colored engraved title page containing scenes from the lives of King Canntus and King Henry and seven charming in-text woodcuts, handsomely bound. $1500.

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London Cries, for Children

"NO CRIES ARE SURE OF SUCH RENOWN/ AS THOSE OF FAMOUS LONDON TOWN"

(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE) (ANONYMOUS). London Cries, for Children. Philadelphia, 1810.

First American edition, following the London printing of the same year, with woodcut frontispiece, vignette woodcut on the title page, and a half-page woodcut illustration for each of the 18 cries in the text. $950.

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