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ELLIOTT, Mary Belson. Early Seeds to produce Spring Flowers, London: William Darton, [1824]. 8° (176 x 108mm). 12 hand-coloured copper-engraved plates on 6 sheets. (Occasional light spotting and offsetting.) Original printed wrapper (wear to spine, a little spotted and waterstained). Provenance: "Emily Foster, the gift of Cousin Bess" (early inscription on verso of upper wrapper). FIRST EDITION. Osborne I, 116: "This pot-pourii of facts with a moral flavour is a companion to Plain things for little folks" (describing the new revised edition).
ELLIOTT, Mary Belson. Un Mauvais Caractère, est un Mauvais Camarade de Jeu, translated by A. F. Ed. Lépée, London: William Darton, [c.1825]. 8° (142 x 90mm). Folding engraved frontispiece and 2 engraved plates. (Occasional light spotting and offsetting, ink inscription on verso of upper wrapper.) Original printed wrapper (covers detached, rubbed with short tears and stains). FIRST FRENCH EDITION. (2)
ELLIOTT, Mary Belson. Un Mauvais Caractère, est un Mauvais Camarade de Jeu, translated by A. F. Ed. Lépée, London: William Darton, [c.1825]. 8° (142 x 90mm). Folding engraved frontispiece and 2 engraved plates. (Occasional light spotting and offsetting, ink inscription on verso of upper wrapper.) Original printed wrapper (covers detached, rubbed with short tears and stains). FIRST FRENCH EDITION. (2)
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