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Marmaduke Multiply's merry method of making minor mathematicians : facsimile of the 1841 children's classic
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Children in the wood (Ballad)
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Heroica eulogia
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Presentation copies of grants relating to the earls of Leicester, collected by William Bowyer, keeper of the royal archives at the Tower of London and presented by him to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532?-88). Interspersed among the deeds are eulogies in verse of previous earls of Leicester and of others, and of the kings who granted the various charters; at the end, satiric anticlerical verses.
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Children's Drawing Book
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One manufacturer's advertisement/drawing book entitled Children's Drawing Book, published by The Coats Thread Co., American Works, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, ca. 1890. This drawing book is 8 pages in length and contains 5 images, on grids, for copying onto separate grids. The first image is on the inside of the front cover. The front and back covers are printed in red. The title is framed by a decorative flourish above an image of an open sketchbook with drawing tools. Beneath is printed: "Presented by The Coats Thread Co. Sole agents U.S. for J. & P. Coats' Spool Cotton. (American Works, Pawtucket, R.I.)". On the back cover is an image of a spool of thread with the words "J. & P. Coats' best six cord spool cotton. White, fast black & colors."
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A.C. Vromans bookstore children's books, 329 East Colorado, Pasadena. 1937
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The children's book area of A.C. Vromans bookstore at 329 East Colorado. Books are on display on white tables and bookshelves in this low-ceilinged area. There is a staircase on the left and a water fountain on the right.
photCL 402 (35534)