English Illustrated Books for Children. Facsimile Editions from The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. 28 vols. (incl. A Descriptive Companion ... Ed. by M.C . Maloney).

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London: the Bodley Head (1983). Various sizes and in fine decorated bindings facsimiled from the original. Each in printed cardboard slip-case. Profusely illust. in both col. and b/w. Fine and complete series. The titles include: Orbis Sensualium Pictus; Goody Two-Shoes; A New Years Gift; The Birth-Day Gift; Cock Robin and Dame Trot; The Butterfly's Ball and The Peacock 'At Home'; The Mansion of Bliss; Chapbooks; A Visit to the Bazaar; The Ocean and Its Inhabitants; Home Treasury Series; Gammer Gurton's Story Books; Hop-o'my-Thumb; Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes; The New Picture Book; The Dog's Dinner Party In Fairy Land; Sing-Song; Walter Crane's Toy Books; A Book of Nonsense; Kate Greenaway; Cinderella; R. Caldecott's Picture Books; The Nursery 'Alice'; The Baby's Own Aesop; The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls; Kate Greenaway's Calendar for 1884; A Descriptive Companion to a Selection from The Osborne Collection.