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London, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, (1839).. In the Tilt's Hand-books for Children series, printed by C. Whittingham, inscribed February 1839 on front pastedown, miniature book approximately 78 x 62 mm, 3 x 2½ inches (cover size), frontispiece of the Royal Psalmist, vignette on title page and 46 very good full page illustrations, printed 1 side only, pages: 191, (1) - publisher's advert listing the first 6 titles in this series, ours being the first on the list. Bound in the original publisher's brown fine grained blind stamped cloth, decorative gilt frame to upper cover containing gilt title, gilt decoration to spine with gilt title, all edges gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Spine just very slightly faded, gilt bright, very slight wear to top of spine with 1 minute nick, lower hinge faded, a little very light staining to covers, front endpapers very lightly soiled, contents clean. A very good tight copy. Episodes from the Old Testament retold for children. Bondy, Miniature Books page 66-67. Not in… Read More

London, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, (1839).. In the Tilt's Hand-books for Children series, printed by C. Whittingham. Inscribed June 1839 in ink and pencil on front pastedown, miniature book approximately 78 x 62 mm, 3 x 2½ inches (cover size), frontispiece of the Royal Psalmist, vignette on title page and 46 very good full page illustrations, printed 1 side only, pages: 191, (1) - publisher's advert listing the first 6 titles in this series, ours being the first on the list. Bound in the original publisher's dark green fine grained blind stamped cloth, decorative gilt frame to upper cover containing gilt title, gilt decoration to spine with gilt title, all edges gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Spine just very slightly faded, gilt bright, a touch of wear to top of spine and a pinhead chip to cloth at top of upper hinge, minute chip to lower edge of page 59/60. A very good clean tight copy. Episodes from the Old Testament retold for children. Bondy, Miniature Books page 66-67. Not in Welsh or Osborne.… Read More