ILLUSTRATORS--GAULTIER, BOOK OF BALLADS, [N.D.]; CHASE, BUBBLE BOOK SEVEN, 1917; THOMSON, JACK THE GIANT KILLER, 1898

i) Jack the Giant Killer. Hugh Thomson's Illustrated Fairy Books. London: Macmillan & Co: Limited, 1898. 4to (mm.), 16 colour plates, original pictorial wrappers, collector's blue cloth box ii) The Funny Froggy Bubble Book Seven. Story by Ralph Mayhew & Burges Johnson. Pictures by Rhoda Chase. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. oblong 8vo (143 x 159mm.), with three small 78 rpm records as issued, original pictorial boards, browning, boards soiled iii) The Book of Ballads. Edited by Bon Gualtier. Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, Richard Doyle and John Leech. London: William S. Orr and Co. 4to (178 x 138mm.), new edition, frontispiece and title-page printed in colour and gold, illustrations throughout, 8 pp. of advertisements, original blue cloth pictorial gilt, all edges gilt, upper hinge splitting at head, spine sunned (3)

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