FURTHER LUMSDEN PUBLICATIONS. [SWIFT, Jonathan (1677-1745)]. The Adventures of Captain Gulliver in a Voyage to Lilliput...1815. 24° (100 x 58mm). First and last leaves pastedowns. Woodcut frontispiece and vignette on title-page, and 12 oval woodcuts in text. Stab-sewn into grey-green paper wrappers "From Ross's Juvenile Library" and Lumsden imprint on upper cover, turnaround portrait on lower. R & B 45; Teerink [?]. -- Isaac WATTS (1674-1748). Divine Songs...1814. Make-up as previous item, but with 8 oblong framed woodcuts in the text. Publishers ms. "Watts Song" on upper cover. R & B 38; Pafford B92. -- Cottage Tales for Little People...n.d. [1815-1820?]. 32° (102 x 64mm). Title-page wood engraving and 5 square-framed oval, plus 3 small framed wood engravings in text. Blue paper wrappers, "From Lumsden's Juvenile Library" with copy of a Thomas Bewick tailpiece on upper cover, scene on lower. R & B 59. -- Gammer Gurton's Garland of Nursery Songs...n.d. [c.1815]. 32° (102 x 65mm). Make-up as previous item, but with 24 small oval or oblong framed wood engravings and a displayed alphabet in text. Pink paper wrappers with caricatures of Josephine and Napoleon front and bac,. Publisher's manuscript title at top of upper cover (dusty). R & B 17. -- An Abridgement of the New Testament...n.d. [1815?]. Quarter-sheet 32° (98 x 59mm). A single gathering of 8 leaves, the first and last pastedowns, with 16 illustrations on 8 inserts, etched in sanguine on one side of the sheet, other conjugates signed E, inner F. Salmon pink plain wrappers, with publisher's manuscript title "Life of Christ" on upper cover (dusty). R & B 32. -- Nurse Dandlem's Little Repository of Great Instruction...written by the famous Prussian, for the sole amusement of the Chickabiddy Generation. n.d. [watermark 1812]. Quarter-sheet 32° (98 x 60mm). Make-up as previous item, but with six two-scene and two full-page etchings, without signatures; two small woodcuts in text. Grey wrappers with manuscript titling "10. Nurse Dandlem". R & B 106. -- [Le Prince de BEAUMONT (?-?)]. Beauty and the Beast. A tale...n.d. [not before 1818]. 12° (132 x 84mm). (Foliation error: omission of 45/46). Frontispiece with conjugate final illustrate leaf and 4 other inserts etched on copper. Blue paper wrappers with engraved label on upper cover. -- [Marie Catherine, Comtesse d'AULNOY (c.1650-1705)]. Mother Bunch's Fairy Tales...n.d. [c.1817]. 12° (101 x 83mm). Collation: A-C.2, including wood engraved frontispiece, 6 inserts etched on copper. Yellow card covers (grubby). R & B 102. -- A Selection of Stories; containing the History of the Two Sisters...n.d. [c.1815]. 12° (109x 81mm). Collation: A.2, with frontispiece and five other inserts etched on copper, and 6 wood engravings in text. Blue card covers with engraved title label. R & B 118. -- The History of Goody Two Shoes with the Adventures of her Brother Tommy...[sold also] by Stoddart and Craggs, Hull n.d. [c.1815]. 18° (129 x 85mm). A single gathering of 18 leaves, with conjugate frontispiece and title-page and six inserts etched on copper, with two small wood engravings in text. Plain grey-green wrappers. R & B 79; A & B no.69. -- [Thomas DAY (1748-1789)]. The Entertaining and Instructing History of Little Jack...New edition...n.d. [c.1820]. 18° (132 x 87mm). Make-up similar to previous item, the etchings in octagonal frames. One small woodcut tailpiece to text. Yellow card covers with pink engraved title label. R & B 93 ("one of the most elegant and carefully produced of Lumsden's juveniles"). -- [Daniel DEFOE (1661?-1731)]. The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...New edition n.d. [watermark 1822]. 18° (136 x 89mm). Make-up similar to previous item, with similar covers (spine badly frayed). R & B 115. -- [Charles PERRAULT (1628-1703)]. The Entertaining Tales of Mother Goose...n.d. [watermark 1817]. 18° (137 x 86mm). Make-up as for previous item. R & B 66. -- Vicissitude: or the life and adventures of Ned Frolic. An Original Comic Song. For the entertainment of all good boys and girls in the British Empire...1818. Sm.8° (136 x 87mm). Collation: A8, with frontispiece and 3 further inserts, engraved on copper, with each featuring seven small pictorial panels, hand-coloured at the publishers. Plain green card wrappers. R & B 22. -- With two others: a compendium of three Lumsden 18° story-books, R & B no.s 130, 61 and 134; and the 4° Pilgrim's Progress [1857]. R & B 172 (which see for details of its complex make-up). (16)

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FURTHER LUMSDEN PUBLICATIONS. [SWIFT, Jonathan (1677-1745)]. The Adventures of Captain Gulliver in a Voyage to Lilliput...1815. 24° (100 x 58mm). First and last leaves pastedowns. Woodcut frontispiece and vignette on title-page, and 12 oval woodcuts in text. Stab-sewn into grey-green paper wrappers "From Ross's Juvenile Library" and Lumsden imprint on upper cover, turnaround portrait on lower. R & B 45; Teerink [?]. -- Isaac WATTS (1674-1748). Divine Songs...1814. Make-up as previous item, but with 8 oblong framed woodcuts in the text. Publishers ms. "Watts Song" on upper cover. R & B 38; Pafford B92. -- Cottage Tales for Little People...n.d. [1815-1820?]. 32° (102 x 64mm). Title-page wood engraving and 5 square-framed oval, plus 3 small framed wood engravings in text. Blue paper wrappers, "From Lumsden's Juvenile Library" with copy of a Thomas Bewick tailpiece on upper cover, scene on lower. R & B 59. -- Gammer Gurton's Garland of Nursery Songs...n.d. [c.1815]. 32° (102 x 65mm). Make-up as previous item, but with 24 small oval or oblong framed wood engravings and a displayed alphabet in text. Pink paper wrappers with caricatures of Josephine and Napoleon front and bac,. Publisher's manuscript title at top of upper cover (dusty). R & B 17. -- An Abridgement of the New Testament...n.d. [1815?]. Quarter-sheet 32° (98 x 59mm). A single gathering of 8 leaves, the first and last pastedowns, with 16 illustrations on 8 inserts, etched in sanguine on one side of the sheet, other conjugates signed E, inner F. Salmon pink plain wrappers, with publisher's manuscript title "Life of Christ" on upper cover (dusty). R & B 32. -- Nurse Dandlem's Little Repository of Great Instruction...written by the famous Prussian, for the sole amusement of the Chickabiddy Generation. n.d. [watermark 1812]. Quarter-sheet 32° (98 x 60mm). Make-up as previous item, but with six two-scene and two full-page etchings, without signatures; two small woodcuts in text. Grey wrappers with manuscript titling "10. Nurse Dandlem". R & B 106. -- [Le Prince de BEAUMONT (?-?)]. Beauty and the Beast. A tale...n.d. [not before 1818]. 12° (132 x 84mm). (Foliation error: omission of 45/46). Frontispiece with conjugate final illustrate leaf and 4 other inserts etched on copper. Blue paper wrappers with engraved label on upper cover. -- [Marie Catherine, Comtesse d'AULNOY (c.1650-1705)]. Mother Bunch's Fairy Tales...n.d. [c.1817]. 12° (101 x 83mm). Collation: A-C^.2, including wood engraved frontispiece, 6 inserts etched on copper. Yellow card covers (grubby). R & B 102. -- A Selection of Stories; containing the History of the Two Sisters...n.d. [c.1815]. 12° (109x 81mm). Collation: A^.2, with frontispiece and five other inserts etched on copper, and 6 wood engravings in text. Blue card covers with engraved title label. R & B 118. -- The History of Goody Two Shoes with the Adventures of her Brother Tommy...[sold also] by Stoddart and Craggs, Hull n.d. [c.1815]. 18° (129 x 85mm). A single gathering of 18 leaves, with conjugate frontispiece and title-page and six inserts etched on copper, with two small wood engravings in text. Plain grey-green wrappers. R & B 79; A & B no.69. -- [Thomas DAY (1748-1789)]. The Entertaining and Instructing History of Little Jack...New edition...n.d. [c.1820]. 18° (132 x 87mm). Make-up similar to previous item, the etchings in octagonal frames. One small woodcut tailpiece to text. Yellow card covers with pink engraved title label. R & B 93 ("one of the most elegant and carefully produced of Lumsden's juveniles"). -- [Daniel DEFOE (1661?-1731)]. The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...New edition n.d. [watermark 1822]. 18° (136 x 89mm). Make-up similar to previous item, with similar covers (spine badly frayed). R & B 115. -- [Charles PERRAULT (1628-1703)]. The Entertaining Tales of Mother Goose...n.d. [watermark 1817]. 18° (137 x 86mm). Make-up as for previous item. R & B 66. -- Vicissitude: or the life and adventures of Ned Frolic. An Original Comic Song. For the entertainment of all good boys and girls in the British Empire...1818. Sm.8° (136 x 87mm). Collation: A⁸, with frontispiece and 3 further inserts, engraved on copper, with each featuring seven small pictorial panels, hand-coloured at the publishers. Plain green card wrappers. R & B 22. -- With two others: a compendium of three Lumsden 18° story-books, R & B no.s 130, 61 and 134; and the 4° Pilgrim's Progress [1857]. R & B 172 (which see for details of its complex make-up).
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