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[CHILDREN?S LITERATURE]. A group of 5 works, including: BAL...

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[CHILDREN?S LITERATURE]. A group of 5 works, including: BALLANTYNE, R. M. Three Little Kittens. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1859. 8vo. 8 chromolithographs. Original textured red cloth gilt (darkened, marginal browning). ?? SECCOMBE, T.S. The Story of Prince Hildebrand and the Princess Ida. London: Thomas de la Rue, n.d. [1880]. 4to. 110 illustrations by the author. Original pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt (light rubbing at extremes). FIRST EDITION. Osborne Collection, p. 660. ?? TENNYSON, Hallam. Jack and the Bean?Stalk. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. 8vo. Numerous illustrations by Randolph Caldecott. Original pictorial green cloth (spine gently sunned). FIRST CALDECOTT EDITION. ?? Mother Goose. New York: A. L. Burt, n.d. [1910]. 8vo. Illustrated by Gordon Brown and others. Original color pictorial cloth. ?? The Osborne Collection of Early Children?s Books. Toronto: Toronto Public Library, [1966]?75. 2 volumes, 8vo. Illustrated. Publisher?s pictorial green cloth. Includes a record of 3,000 books from the collection housed at Boys and Girls House. ?? Together, 5 works in 6 volumes, condition generally good.