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[BOYLE, Eleanor Vere] ('E.V.B.'). Child's Play. London: Sampson. Low, Son & Co., 1859. Small 4° (182 x 137mm.). 2 hand-coloured initials and vignette illustration on title, colour-printed frontispiece and 15 plates after Boyle (occasional slight spotting). Original green cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, g.e., by Bone & Son. - WEIR, Harrison (illustrator). Stories about Birds: by a young naturalist. J.O.Clarke for Darton & Co., 1854. Small 4° (197 x 160mm.). 8 colour-printed plates after Weir. Original red cloth, blocked in gilt and blind (spine slightly split). - PLETSCH, Oscar (illustrator). Buds and Flowers of Childish Life. London & New York: Leighton Bothers for George Routledge & Sons, 1870. Small 4° (179 x 136mm.). Colour-printed frontispiece, additional title and 30 plates by Leighton Bros. after Pletsch. Original purple cloth, blocked in gilt and blind (spine faded). - With two others, including a duplicate of the first work in a variant binding. (5)