£1,100
Miniature Books. Gigantick (sic) History, Volume the Second. Which completes The History of Guildhall, London. With other curious Matters. The Second Edition. London: Printed for Tho. Boreman, nears the giants in Guildhall, and at the Boot and Crown on Ludgate-hill, 1741, architectural woodcut frontispiece, black-ruled title-page, decorative vignettes, complete, collating: A-H⁸; [v], vi-xxiv, [25]-128, inclusive of subscribers list and publisher's advert, frontispiece a trifle stained, the title somewhat soiled, the latter with one hole at the opening T of the fifth line, otherwise generally fresh, contemporary embossed papered boards, somewhat worn, perished spine, holding with some slight movement, lacking ffeps, recto of frontispiece with indistinct 19th c ownership inscription dated 1845, 32mo (6 x 4.6cm)
A rarity from arguably the first English publisher of children's books, and a forerunner, along with the rest of the Boreman's Gigantick Histories series (1740-42), of Newbery's Lilliputian Magazine (1752); commonly held to be the first secular children's chapbooks.
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