Children's Books. Provincial Irish Imprint: Carter (Miss [El...

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£100 - £150

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Children's Books. Provincial Irish Imprint: Carter (Miss [Elizabeth], and Others), Select Poems, Designed for the Improvement and Amusement of Young Ladies, first edition thus, Waterford: Printed by Hugh and James Ramsey, Booksellers on the Quay, 1772, lacking one leaf otherwise complete, collating: 38, 41-90, [2]pp, contemporary sheep over boards, recto with contemporaneous lady's ownership inscription, oblong 8vo; [La Mothe, (Marie Catherine, Comtesse d'Aulnoy)] Mother Bunch's Fairy Tales [...], London: Printed for F. Newbery, 1773, frontispiece and plates, incomplete, original boards, small 8vo; Peter Piper's Practical Principles [...], London: John Harris, n.d. [c. 1825],, hand-coloured in-text illustrations, soiled, original wrappers, 8vo; two volumes from Alfred Mills' Miniature Library, Miniature Pictures of English History, [&] Roman History, 1809, one lacking title, plates, otherwise unexamined, original publisher's printed papered boards, worn and repaired, 16mo; Early Impressions, 1828, lithographs after Dighton, 12mo; etc., (7)

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