Lot 2057 , Hints for the Improvement of Early Education and Nursery Discipline. original boards, uncut (roughly rebacked). printed for J. Hatchard and Son, 1819; The Book of Common Prayer ... portrait frontis. and 46 other engraved

° Hints for the Improvement of Early Education and Nursery Discipline. original boards, uncut (roughly rebacked). printed for J. Hatchard and Son, 1819; The Book of Common Prayer ... portrait frontis. and 46 other engraved plates; contemp. gilt decorated red morocco, panelled spine, ge. and marbled e/ps., 12mo. printed by John Baskett .. 1739; Fables of Aesop and Others. Newly done into English. With an application to each fable ... 4th edition. woodcut illus. throughout, head and tailpiece decorations; old calf with panelled spine. printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1737; The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures of a Father, Mother and Four Sons in a Desert Island ... 5th edition. folded map and 5 plates; contemp. gilt calf. printed for M.J. Godwin and Co., 1824; together some other antiquarian volumes (16)
£140-180

Condition:
Education - inner hinges cracked, some old paper repairs on e/ps. (3), 188pp.; some old ownership notes and old pictorial bkplt. of C. Gradscod Rickards; BPC. - lt. spine wear, gen. good; plts. series incl. Powder Plot, Chas I execution, and Restoration; sep. title for Sternhold Psalms/Co. of Stationers, 1739; Aesop - title in red and black, wear head and tail of spine, sm. stains etc. inside but quite good. (30), 345, (7) pp., old bklabel of Jasper Bead; Swiss Family - some leather wear and spine faded, frontis staining and title sl. browned, some other sl. stains etc. viii, 486pp.; Others include Hortus Animae; or, Garden of the Soul (John Philp ), contemp. gilt decorated black calf, panelled spine, silk e/ps. with gilt dec. turn-in s, ge. (by Birdsall, a superior binding) v.sl. wear spine head, but handsome copy; The Pleasing Instructor or Entertaining Moralist ... (and) New Thoughts on Education (? by A.Fisher). 3 plates, contemp. sheep with gilt ruled panelled spine; front board joint cracked almost completely; near contemp. names at front and title. (1), iv, xii, 368pp.

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