Na, 1850. An attractive work. A collection of 20 hand coloured lithographs, numbered 1-20, showing scenes of life in the Low Countries. For example, the first shows the progress of a young man, accompanied by his dog and monkey. There is no title page, and no clue about artist or printer to any of the plates. The covers of the album bear the word "Album" surrounded by blind stamped designs. The text is somewhat rubbed. Cloth spine.
The first lithograph has a reference 656 to it, which presumably indicates a series, but we have been unable to identify it.
20 leaves printed and hand coloured to recto only. 21.5cm x 32cm

London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1924. First edition thus, as first with Rountree's wonderful illustrations. Green cloth hardback, with black lettering and colour illustration onlaid to the front board. The colour plates include full colour pictorial endpapers.
Including favourites such as, "The Hare and the Tortoise", "The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse", and "Crying Wolf". Complete with colour frontis and all plates. Has a prize bookplate to the front, dated 1927 - from 'Wyggeston Grammar School for Girls' in Leicester (UK). This school's emblem is also attractively gilt-stamped on to the rear board. 340, [4]pp. publisher's catalogue.. 210 x 155 mm (8¼ x 6 inches).

Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1944. First edition thus. Hardback navy blue cloth with gold titles. In original unclipped dust jacket. With pictorial endpapers. Now in Mylar wrap for protection. Unpaginated. 200 x 175 mm (7¾ x 7 inches). Copy-Kitten likes copying other animals and this book contains over forty wonderful illustrations by the talented Helen and Alf Evers.

Gouda: G. B. van Goor Zonen, 1844. First edition. Softback with paper covers. 24 letters of the alphabet (the letters Q and X being the exceptions) are assigned an animal illustration, examples of how to write that letter, and a short verse of poetry about the animal in Dutch. Illustrations are hand coloured. A charming children's book. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).

Paris: Libraire Hachette: 1910. First Thus (French trade edition). Attractive, new, full dark green leather binding. gilt titles and decoration to the spine. All edges gilt. green marbled end papers. Original green cloth front board laid into rear of book (with decoration etc.) Original spine is also laid in. Slight creasing to the frontis (Rackham's portrait of Alice). A touch of foxing to some of the pages, Otherwise in excellent condition throughout. The original spine is a rather faded. A beautifully preserved and presented copy. 13 full colour plates by Rackham. Some additional black and white illustrations and decorated initials throughout the book. 168 pages.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1938. Publisher's quarter blue cloth and colour pictorial boards. Text in English. 39 [1] pp. 365 x 265 mm (14¼ x 10½ inches).

London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, 1894. Original yellow hardback. buckram spine. A touch of bumping to the edges only. Unpaginated. 15 coloured lithographs with a black and white copy of each opposite for children to colour themselves. This copy largely uncoloured, although the first black and white image has a very feint colour wash to it. 240 by 175mm (9½ by 7 inches).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. First British edition. Hardcover. First printing. Signed on half-title by the illustrator Glen Baxter. 40 pages. 235 x 220 mm (9¼ x 8¾ inches). Glen Baxter's illustrations are infamous. "A kind of mad cross between Magritte, S. J. Perelman and Pulp Fiction" said Mel Gussons in the New York Times.

Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co, 1910. First edition thus. These are known as 'Turnover Books' in which each volume in the series has two titles. The book must be read one way for one story, then turned upside down and read the other way for the second story. Decorated red boards. Page edges and endpapers are red. Wonderful colour illustrations. 64 pages. 190 x 140 mm (7½ x 5½ inches). The illustrations were first serialised by the Philadelphia North American Syndicate in Sunday supplements as "Children's Stories That Never Grow Old," September 1, 1907 to March 22, 1908. Reilly & Britton then issued them as single volumes, and in a collection Children's Stories That Never Grow Old (1908).

Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1853. Scarce first edition. A race involving Hedgehog versus Rabbit in this charming tale originally by Theodor von Kobbe. B/w illustrations and foreword by Lyser. Text in both Low and High German. 140 x 100 mm (5½ x 4 inches).

Lausanne / Paris: F. Roth & Cie / Librairie Hachette, 1946. This was the first Babar book, copyright 1939. Delightfully illustrated boards, with linen spine. Text in German. 48 pages. 370 x 270 mm (14½ x 10¾ inches).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. First Edition. Unique item because alongside the colour printed frontispiece, there is a beautifully hand coloured pictorial title page, several other hand coloured illustrations (5 in total) - the rest in their original b/w state. Publisher's grey cloth hardback boards, with title in purplen to front and spine. With the original dust jacket, which is lightly nicked and soiled, and a little age toned. Attractive bird decorated endpapers. Some sporadic foxing, and to page edges, but delightful with previous owner's skillful hand colouring. 319 pages. 205 x 140 mm (8 x 5½ inches).

London: Blackie & Son Limited, [1900]. First edition, circa 1900. Illustrated hardback and red cloth spine binding. Amusing children's verses and colour illustrations. 66 pages. 315 x 255 mm (12½ x 10 inches).

London: Max Reinhardt Ltd, 1958. First UK edition. Hardback in blue cloth with gilt titles. In original unclipped dust jacket. The author brings the precocious American rich kid Eloise to Paris, and she certainly makes the most of it! Follow her outrageous exploits - most not really aimed at younger children - whilst visiting the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and the Opera, with her long suffering Nanny. It's champagne and baguettes all the way. With in text illustrations by Hilary Knight. The dust jacket is a little age toned, with a few nicks / tears to the top. Neat gift inscription to front - dated 1958 - but overall in a very good condition. [64]pp. 285 x 200 mm (11¼ x 7¾ inches).

London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Scarce First Edition. Victorian illustrated children's verse book [1892]. In pictorial boards, with cloth spine. Beautiful colour and duo tone illustrations by the author - including a half title page, and a frontispiece entitled 'Good Morning'. Has a neat 1894 owner's name in ink to the front endpaper. Some fading to the spine cloth, and some rubbing / light soiling to the boards. Minimal foxing to inside pages, mostly to prelims. Overall a very nice copy. [32] pp. 230 x 185 mm (9 x 7¼ inches).

London: G. Whizzard / André Deutsch. This book was chosen as 1976 Children's Book of the Year. It is thought to have been the first picture book on the UK market to include a record (7-inch vinyl disc). The story is a charming rhyme about Farmer Fisher's attempts to visit his cousin in Russia for Christmas. Scarce in this condition and with vinyl. 36 pages. 205 x 295 mm (8 x 11½ inches). Jonathon Coudrille's talents as a multi-instrumentalist mean that he plays and composes for guitar, 7-string banjo, piano, organ and trumpet. His musical interests and influences are principally jazz, Russian and gypsy music.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. Reprint edition. Clean and tidy laminate boards. Fractional bumping to corners. light foxing to front pastedown. Otherwise a Fine copy.

Strasbourg: L.R.D.L, 1954. Charming colourful embossed silhouette story book for children. All about Fifon the rabbit. Text in French. 16 pages. 270 x 195 mm (10¾ x 7¾ inches).

London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1982. First edition in this format. Hardback laminated colour illustrated boards. Unpaginated. 275 x 200 mm (10¾ x 7¾ inches). Fungus the Bogeyman is a character created by British artist Raymond Briggs. The story follows one day in the life of this fabulous character, a working class Bogeyman with the mundane job of scaring human beings. A fantastic pre-curser to the likes of Shrek!