Hartford: Hale & Hosmer, 1814. 12mo (14cm.); contemporary gilt-lettered calf over marbled paper-covered boards; vi,[7]-90pp. (collated complete); woodcut frontispiece of a young woman reading. Boards scuffed with exposure along margins and corners, faint foxing and damp stain to early leaves, else Very Good and sound. Early American edition of..... More

Champagne, IL: Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, 1971. First Edition. Square quarto; original white pictorial double folder (19cm) containing twenty-seven (27) design elements (six colors, eight shapes, six lines, and seven textures) as well as one folded table of contents. Folder worn especially along spine with long closed tear..... More

New York: Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in cream pictorial dust jacket, custom cloth slipcase; xii,86pp.; woodcut frontispiece and illus. throughout, pictorial endpapers printed in red. Dust jacket verso reinforced with archival paper, heavy color touch-ups to extremities, especially along top margin of front..... More

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1923. Later Edition. Octavo; publisher's green gilt-embossed cloth, color pictorial paste-on to upper cover; color frontispiece, and nineteen (19) leaves of plates. Light scuffing to cloth margins, textblock a shade toned, else a Very Good, clean and sound copy. First published in 1921 under..... More

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1978. First Edition Thus. Quarto (29cm); publisher's boards in white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 93pp.; lithographs throughout. Moderate wear and soil to dust jacket including a few small closed tears; a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. More

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [1845]. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's navy blue sheep over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; 35pp.; woodcut frontispiece. Boards rather worn with large loss of marbled paper from rear cover, corners exposed, repaired loss along bottom of pp. 23/4 affecting text with brief loss of meaning, textblock..... More

New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1889. First American Edition. 12mo; publisher's red pictorial cloth stamped in black; [10],144,[4]pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Cloth scuffed with exposure and light fraying at corners and spine ends, spine also cocked and toned, brief soil spots to boards, textblock a bit darkened and shaken..... More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00), red topstain, pictorial endpapers printed in blue; x,259pp.; color frontispiece, one leaf of photographic illus. in rear, half-tone illus. throughout. Dust jacket rather toned along margins and spine panel, cloth..... More

Paris: Bossange Frères, n.d. [ca. 1825]. Presumed First French Edition. Oblong octavo (14.5 x 23 cm); publisher’s pictorial lilac paper-covered boards adorned with vignettes of two young girls, one skipping rope, the other playing badminton; iii,[4]-134pp.; six leaves of hand-colored aquatint plates. Ex-library with the early 20th-century gift bookplate to..... More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1891. Later Printing. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, in cream pictorial dust jacket repeating the same illustration as the binding in black and coral pink (probably once red), brown glazed endpapers; viii,244pp. A few small chips and closed..... More

New-York: J.E.D. Comstock, [1847]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); contemporary half sheep over marbled boards; vi,[153]-426,[2],[9]-148pp.; 24 leaves of plates including 12 colored botanicals, woodcuts throughout text. Boards rather rubbed, contemporary ownership inscription of a Mary Hart to front free endpaper, rear endpaper torn away, else Very Good and sound, complete..... More

Philadelphia, PA: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., 1838. Reprint. 12mo; publisher's black roan over blue paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; 180pp.; woodcut frontispiece and title page vignette, full-page illus. throughout. Boards quite rubbed and worn with some loss of paper over boards at top fore-edge corner of upper cover, spotting and occasional..... More

Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1933. First Thus, Limited to 75 copies of which this is no. 29. Small, slim 16mo; publisher's pictorial silver-grey cloth stamped in red, silver endpapers; unpaginated; two-toned frontispiece. Tiny soil spot to spine, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. More