New York: Wiley & Putnam, 161 Broadway 1847 on title page/1846, second American printing of the 1845 British first English translation by Howitt, brown cloth binding with blindstamped ruled and decorated borders top and bottom, and a delicate gilt stamped picture of a little girl in a garden, gilt decorated.....
New-York: J. Q. Preble, Tubbs, Nesmith, and Teall, Printers and Stereotypers, (1854 dated preface-poem); red cloth boards with gold stamped elaborate design on top board and spine, blindstamped on bottom; gilt all around, no frontis; 2.2x3.25"; 95 pp with table of contents. Small hardback. 12 stories and poems somehow fit.....
Edinburgh: T. Nelson & Sons; early 1870's, 1st; ivory glazed paper with elaborate gilt floral borders and title, gilt picture of Lily and her doll; on the back cover an extensive list of Nelson titles to 1870, not including this book, four full colour, full page chromolithographs on heavier paper.....
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, Publishers, Franklin and Hawley Streets, no date, [1875 to 1887, probably early in this period as Wide Awake is a "New Monthly Magazine" and Babyland is not mentioned]; blue pebbled cloth spine and pictorial boards, on the top a picture of a little girl sitting.....
New York: Leavitt and Allen, no date, circa 1860's; brown pressed cloth, hand coloured illustrations, 3x4.5"; 32 pp. Small hardback. Stories for older children about daily life, and more, The Skating Party, The Arrest, The Soldiers, The Depot, Snowballing, Blind Man's Buff, The Magnetic Swan, and others. Appears to have.....
London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 54 Fleet St., 1870, 1st; blue boards with black ruling on top and bottom boards and gilt title cartouche; 12 plates of fine etchings on tan background; 8x10.25"; 94 pp + 2 pp catalogue. Juvenile hardback. The story follows Charlie through the year of school.....
New York: James Miller, 522 Broadway, Aunt Mary's Library (one of the ten little books) 1860's exact reprint of the 1849 Lindsay and Blakiston first; brown blindstamped boards with fine gilt titles and decorations on spine; pale yellow endpapers, uncoloured frontis of children arriving at cottage and final illustration of.....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co,, 39, West Twenty-Third Street, (1881)/1882-1884, first or early printing, Sternick; glazed boards with girl gathering holly berries in the cold and green panel with red titles, on the bottom children being lead off to bed at 8:00 titles "Good-Night" (repeated in text); 7.75.....
Boston: Roberts, 1890/1883. Aqua cloth binding with bronze and gold stamping; 298 pp. Juvenile hardback. A collection of stories for young children: Queen Blossom, Toinette and the Elves, Jean's Money and What It Bought. With six pages of ads for Susan Coolidge's books.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856, 1st (entered 1855); stereotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton & Co. Riverside, Cambridge; red blindstamped boards with full design and title in large print; gilt title on spine, yellow endpapers, with frontis and 5 b/w plates all with tissue guard, 7.5"x9.75";. Juvenile hardback.....
New York: The Macmillan Company (London: Adam and Charles Black); 1904 and 1908, both volumes are 1st printings, published in September of their respective years in an identical format; dark green cloth boards with rust, green, and light green decorations and gilt titles, top edge gilt, 16 coloured plates in.....
Philadelphia, Fisher and Brothers,(1847) 8 South Sixth Street; red cloth stamped boards, thin pink endpapers, 6 handcoloured plates, 4.5x5.5"; 108 pp. Small hardback. Bearing the same title as Newbery's, but not its tone. These two long stories promote industry and kindness to others, with frequent digressions to natural history.
London: George Routledge and Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill ; New York: 9 Lafayette Place; [1885] probable 1st printing; printed by Edmund Evans; brown/maroon clothbacked glazed green pictorial boards with three girls hanging over a gate on top and bottom board; green endpapers, yellow stained edges all around, 4 col plates.....
New York: George Sully Publishers, Later than the Willis P. Hazard 1850s collection but no date, (late 1800's ?); grey cloth spine, glazed paper covered boards with full-page color illustration front, grey paper back, coloured illustrations on every double sided page; 20x25 cm, about 40 pp. Picture Book hardback. Very.....
London: Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd., New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1906, 1st printing, colophon on verso of half title page; ivory cloth boards, with early 19th c girl and boy standing at the gates to a golden door; cream, brown and orange, gilt titles, door, and.....
Scull, (1909); both outside covers are. Novelty, salesman's dummy. Salesman's Dummy: Good Times at Home exhaustive! see images of the title page/Roosevelt's African Trip with photos/The Story of Our Presidents from Roosevelt to Taft/Sunday Half Hours with the Children with lessons by Charlotte Yonge/Christmas Joys for Little Girls and Boys.....
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., [1883], (prior to 1917), printed in colours by Edmund Evans; Ivory illus glazed pictorial boards with green cloth back/corners; on both boards seated children hold up letter signs, "Little Ann" children facing front, "A Book" children away; blue green all around, yellow.....
New York: Worthington and Company, 747 Broadway, 1891, 1st, tp; blue cloth spine, little girl holding flowers within delicate border on top board, spray of flowers on the bottom, single sided chromolithos on heavy cardstock; oblong 10x7.5"; np. Picture book hardback. Brilliant chromolithos with sepia tints, taken from watercolour, beautifully.....
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, Franklin St., Corner of Hawley, Subscription Ed.(1878); shiny brown boards with stamped black floral decoration, gilt titles on board and spine, dark brown endpapers, Juvenile hardback. "This sketch of the History of Rome covers the period till the reign of Charles the Great as head.....