Object Book Common Things (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 10 pages, old name and date (1889?) on second page, also old bookshop stamp. Corners worn, cloth on spine split on one side, soiling con covers, small area of damage on front cover. Beautiful chromolithographic plates. Rare children's book. Worldcat lists only 2 existing copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Published by Frederick Warne in 1905. Size: 20 x 26 cms or 8 x 10 1/4 inches. Page number: 20. Thick card pages illustrate to children the origins of the things that they are commonly exposed to in life: wool, milk, tea, eggs, salt, bread honey etc. The language is poetic. 12 of the pages are full-colour; 8 are sepia coloured. Condition: Very Good. The cover is slightly worn and grubby. The corners are rubbed. Remnants of old sellotape remain on the boards and first and last pages. The red cloth spine is slightly damaged at the top. The pages within are occasionally marked but in the main clean. There edges of the pages are faintly browned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small quarto (265x205x12mm.), c.1890, cloth spine with coloured pictorial front board, eight heavy card pages, each with several coloured images, some shelf wear to board edges, inscription on front inside cover "To Our Dear Winnie from her Mother and Daddie, Christmas 1905" Lines of text amongst the images depicting bread making, bee keeping, gardening etc. as well as Chinese and Indian people involved with tea and spices.