Nine Victorian children's & illustrated titles, including El...

Hammer

£80

Nine Victorian children's & illustrated titles, including Eleanor Vere Boyle (ill.); Sarah Austin: 'The Story Without an End. From the German of Carové', L, Sampson Low, 1868, 1st edition, tinted frontispiece + 15 colour lithograph plates & b/w ills. by Eleanor Vere Boyle as called for, 4to, vi, 40pp, original green cloth gilt, replenished EP's, mounted colour illustration inset to front cover, all edges gilt. Scarce; Comus [i.e. R.M. Ballantyne]: 'Three Little Kittens', London, Thomas Nelson, 1857, 8 colour lithograph plates, 24pp, lacks rear end paper, original blindstamped pictorial cloth gilt. Scarce; John Everett Millais (ill.); Henry Leslie: 'Little Songs for Me to Sing', L, Cassell, [1865], 42 unnumbered pages, full page and in text engraved ills. and decorations by J.E. Millais, original pictorial cloth gilt (worn), lacks part of backstrip; The Hon. Charlotte Ellis: 'The True and Romantic History of William Pigg, Esquire, M.P. for Ham(p)shire; Or, Life's Burlesque in Black and White', L, Kerby & Endean, 1879, 1st edition, Frontis and 27 full page illustrations, all within decorative border, by Catherine Ellis, as called for, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt; plus 5 others similar (9)