No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium THE DR. NIGEL TEMPLE COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS Each book in the collection contains Dr. Nigel Temple's bookplate which is illustrated, enlarged, on the back cover of this catalogue. Any other provenances are noted in the descriptions, where appropriate.
AESOP (c.620-560 B.C.) & Charles H. BENNETT (illustrator). The Fables ... translated into Human Nature, London: Chatto and Windus, 1875. 4° (249 x 176mm). Hand-coloured wood-engraved frontispiece, title and 22 plates by Swain after Charles Bennett. (Corner torn away from front endpaper, pencil inscription crossed through, a few light spots, hinges a little weak.) Original pictorial cloth gilt (joints splitting, extremities rubbed).

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AESOP (c.620-560 B.C.) & Charles H. BENNETT (illustrator). The Fables ... translated into Human Nature, London: Chatto and Windus, 1875. 4° (249 x 176mm). Hand-coloured wood-engraved frontispiece, title and 22 plates by Swain after Charles Bennett. (Corner torn away from front endpaper, pencil inscription crossed through, a few light spots, hinges a little weak.) Original pictorial cloth gilt (joints splitting, extremities rubbed).

Ernest Griset's Funny Picture-Book, London: William P. Nimmo, [c.1874]. 4° (276 x 215mm). Hand-coloured illustrations by Ernest Griset. (A few very short marginal tears.) Original pictorial cloth gilt (spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Maud Stevenson (presentation inscription).

With Aesop's Fables (London, [c.1880], 2nd edition, illustrated by Ernest Griset) and Sydney Grey's Story-Land (London, [c.1884], illustrated by Robert Barnes). (4)
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