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London, Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd, (1905).. SECOND EDITION (stated on title page), circa 1905, miniature book, 79 x 79 mm, 3 x 3 inches, pale green cloth, yellow, red and black illustration to upper cover, top edges red, 83 pages. 20 very jolly lively colour plates each facing a 4 line verse, all printed on thick card, 1 side only. All the people and creatures are the subjects of King Wallypug of Why. There are dressed pigs, folk from Japan, a hippotamus, a crocodile, a salamander and a newspaper selling rabbit, all dressed. The last is Dumpsy Deazil, a pretty doll. A couple of very minor marks to cloth, a neat inscription on blank page 5, title of plate page 11 written in a small neat hand across lower corner of plate, a name written in the same hand across lower corner of plate page 35 (see images), occasional slight dusty mark to margins. A very good plus tight copy. First published undated in 1905, No. 7 in The Humpty Dumpty Books for Children series, 'The prettiest Child Books in the world'.… Read More

London: George Routledge & Sons. Good+. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth, stamped in a darker brown. Frontispiece and eleven other illustrations with each month including a color illustration. Some darkening to the cloth. The front hinge is cracking. The frontispiece is glued to the free endpaper. Text is somewhat shaken. A number of pages in the calendar pages have written names. A very scarce Wallypug book. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 141 pages .