Rare Books

Banbury chap books and nursery toy book literature (of the XVIII and early XIX centuries) : with impressions from several hundred original wood-cut blocks, by T. & J. Bewick, Blake, Cruikshank, Craig, Lee, Austin and others. : Illustrating favorite nursery classics, with their antiquarian, historical, literary and artistic associations : faithfully gleaned from the original works in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the British and South Kensington Museums, &c. : With very much that is interesting and valuable appertaining to the early typography and topography of children's books relating to Great Britain and America. Including Jack the giant killer, Cock Robin, Tom Thumb, Whittington, Goody Two Shoes, Philip Quarll, Tommy Trip, York and Banbury Cries, Children in the wood, Dame Trot, Horn books, Battledores, Primers, etc