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London, Tilt & Bogue, Fleet Street, (1840).. In the Tilt's Hand-books for Children series, printed by Bradbury and Evans. Circa 1840, miniature book approximately 78 x 62 mm, 3 x 2½ inches (cover size), frontispiece of Queen Victoria on horseback, vignette on title page and 46 full page illustrations, printed 1 side only, pages: vi, 7-191, (1) - publisher's advert listing the first 12 titles in this series, ours being the last. Bound in the original publisher's green fine grained blind stamped cloth, gilt vignette of the Duke of Wellington to upper cover, gilt floral decoration to spine with gilt title, all edges gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Spine faded with 1 tiny water spot, gilt bright, child's name on front endpaper, very little faint brown spotting on plate page 6, plate page 121, and text page 12, tiny touch of pink paint on plate page 21 and plate page 29, pencilled comment mostly erased in upper margin of text page 40. Otherwise a very good copy. Short biographies of the kings and queens of… Read More

London, Tilt & Bogue, Fleet Street, (1840).. In the Tilt's Hand-books for Children series, printed by Bradbury and Evans. Circa 1840, miniature book approximately 78 x 62 mm, 3 x 2½ inches (cover size), frontispiece of Queen Victoria on horseback, vignette on title page and 46 full page illustrations, printed 1 side only, pages: vi, 7-191, (1) - publisher's advert listing the first 12 titles in this series, ours being the last. Bound in the original publisher's blue fine grained blind stamped cloth, gilt vignette of the Duke of Wellington to upper cover, gilt decoration to spine with gilt title, all edges gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Spine slightly faded, gilt bright, neat name and date 1851 on front endpaper, a very good plus clean copy. Short biographies of the kings and queens of England from William I to Victoria. The readers are advised to procure a medal struck in honour of Queen Victoria's marriage in 1840. Welsh, A Bibliography of Miniature Books No. 4453; Osborne I page 169; Bondy, Miniature… Read More