[DORSET, Catherine Ann; MULREADY, William (illustrator)].
The Peacock and Parrot, on their tour in search of the author of "The Peacock at Home".
London, Printed for J. Harris, 1816.
The book was published following the tremendous success of Catherine Ann Dorset's (d.1816?) The Peacock at Home, which sold 40,000 copies within a year, and reached a twenty-eighth edition by 1819. The present work is much less well-known, with WorldCat recording only 16 copies in institutional collections worldwide.
With an early female gift inscription 'For Sarah King from her sister Honora'(?).
First edition; 16mo (12.5 x 10.5 cm); 6 hand-coloured engraved plates including frontispiece, gift inscription in pen to front free endpaper; original pictorial wrappers, rebacked in green card, housed in a modern grey cloth clamshell case, contrasting red morocco title-piece to spine, a very good example.
Moon 605; Gumuchian 2251.
Stock code 111355
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The Peacock and Parrot,
ROWLING, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
2003
The first edition, first impression of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, a near-fine copy in the original dust-jacket
£250.00
MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, E.H. (illustrator).
Now We Are Six.
1927.
A handsome first edition of Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne with illustrations by E.H. Shepard.
£350.00
CARROLL, Lewis [pseud. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge]; TENNIEL, John (illustrator).
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [with] Through the Looking-Glass, and what Alice Found There.
1885.
A handsomely illustrated copy of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.
£1,500.00
GRAHAME, Kenneth; SHEPARD, Ernest H. (illustrator)
The Wind in the Willows.
1931.
A charming copy of the perennial children's classic, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and illustrated by E.H. Shepard
£575.00
