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TALES FROM THE LANDS OF NUTS & GRAPES: (SPANISH & PORTUGUESE FOLKLORE.) By Charles Sellers. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.
[Half-a-Crown.
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THE BAIRNS’ ANNUAL (for 1888-9) of Old-Fashioned Tales. Edited by Alice Corkran. Illustrated with nearly one hundred original wooden blocks and a coloured Frontispiece. Contents:—The Story of Punch and Judy: The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood: The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast: Little Red Riding Hood: Hop o’ my Thumb: Cinderella and her Little Glass Slipper: Gaffer Gray: a Christmas Ditty: The Apple-Pie Alphabet: Dr. Watts’s Cradle Hymn: Peter Piper’s Practical Principles: A Merry New Song: The Rudiments of Grammar: The Froward Child Properly Corrected: Tom Thumb. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.
[One Shilling.
A delightful mélange of the old-fashioned fairy tales that delighted our grand-parents when bairns.
MEN, MAIDENS & MANNERS A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. By John Ashton. With thirty-four contemporary illustrations. LONDON: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, E.C.