Poetry & Children – Potter (Helen Beatrix, Mrs. William Heel...

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£150 - £200

Poetry & Children – Potter (Helen Beatrix, Mrs. William Heelis, 1866-1943), The Tale of Mr. Tod, 1st edition, London, Frederick Warne 1912, 18mo, 94pp coloured plates and vignettes, cream embossed boards and titles mounted colour print, cover a little dirty; Nodier (Charles) illus. Fraser (Claud Lovat), The Woodcutter’s Dog, London, Daniel O’Connor 1922, 8vo, 20pp, colour printed vignettes, printed yellow boards mounted titles; Nodier (Charles), illus. Fraser (Claud Lovat), The Luck of the Bean Rows: A Fairy Tale, London, Daniel O’Connor 1921, tall 12mo, 60 pp, colour printed vignette illus., harlequin boards, titles yellow printed, blue cloth spine; Perrault (Charles), Tales of Passed Times Written for Children, 1st edn., London, Selwyn & Blount, 1922, 8vo, 63pp, colour frontis and vignettes by John Austen (MS signature), no. 84 of an edition of 200 copies, armorial bookplate Frederick John Handcock Lloyd, buff boards, colour printed vignette and titles; Perrault (Charles), trans. Gant (Roland), illus. Clauss, The Vindication of Wives, 1st edn., London, Rodale, 1954, 12mo, 27pp, coloured illus., cream printed boards, red cloth spine, gilt titles; Regnard (Jean-François, 1655-1709), trans Gant (Roland), illus. Clauss, Satire against Husbands, a poem, 1st edn., London , Rodale, 1954, 12mo, 30pp, numerous coloured illus., colour printed boards buff spine, gilt titles; Cassiodorus (Fl. Magnus Aurelius Senator, c. 490-585), trans Merton (Thomas), A Prayer of Cassiodorus from the treatise de Anima, Worcester, Stanbrook Abbey, 1967, tall 12mo, 16pp, handset 12pt monotype, marbled boards, gilt titles, cellophane d.w.; various authors, Granny’s Glasses and a Peep Through Them, London, Ernest Nister/New York, E. P. Dutton, 1892, royal 8vo, unpaginated, colour lithographs and vignettes, chromolithographic boards, green spine; de la Mare (Walter, OM, CH, 1873-1956), illus. Fraser (Claud Lovat), Peacock Pie: a Book of Rhymes, London, Constable, 1924, large 8vo, 128pp, 16 coloured prints, blue boards embossed with gilt peacock, gilt titles to spine (9)