The New History of Valentine and Orson, abstracted from the French, and the best English originals. With a new set of figures more expressive of the story, and better adapted to the entertainment of the reader, than any yet extant. London: printed by and for Tho. Norris...1724. 12° (142 x 80mm). Woodcut frontispiece (frayed edges) and 45 woodcuts in the text, including 15 repeats. Original sheep over boards, re-backed (lacks end papers). Provenance: Mary Fearman (?); John House (?). A & M 109. -- BURTON, Robert [ie Nathaniel Crouch] (1632?-1725?). The History of the Nine Worthies of the World...illustrated with poems, and the picture of each worthy. The fourth edition. London: printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch...and J. Hodges, at the Looking-glass on London Bridge. 1738. 12° (142 x 80mm). Collation: A-H.2, the last three pages advertisements for 18 numbered titles. Woodcut frontispiece and nine heroic woodcut portraits in text. Original ruled sheep, crazed; re-backed with new endpapers. Provenance: Will Hickinbotham. ESTC t 117560 citing two locations in England and one in the U.S.A. Burton's books sold by the booksellers "on the bridge" were commended by Samuel Johnson as "very suitable for backward readers". -- Roman Stories, or the history of the seven were masters of Rome...The forty-second edition. London: printed and sold by J. Hollis...n.d. [?1800]. 8° (154 x 82mm). The first leaf, a titled frontispiece with two soft-metal relief cuts, a pastedown; seven soft-metal cuts in text, including repeats of those used in frontispiece (some foxing, inner joint cracking in final gathering). Marbled-paper boards (?printer's waste? back replaced with brown paper by Mrs. Moon). With a note by Mrs. Moon laid in, querying the book's claim "to initiate youth into the principles of sound literature and virtue". (3)