THE FITZDOODLE MEMOIRS. By Lord Adolphus Fitzdoodle. LONDON: The Leadenhall Press, Ltd: 50, Leadenhall Street, E.C. [One Shilling.
THE BOOK OF DELIGHTFUL AND STRANGE DESIGNS being One Hundred facsimile Illustrations of the Art of the Japanese Stencil-Cutter to which the Gentle Reader is introduced by one Andrew W. Tuer, F.S.A. LONDON: The Leadenhall Press, Ltd: 50, Leadenhall-street, E.C. [Six Shillings.
Illustrated Shilling Series of Forgotten Children’s Books.
Publishers’ Note.
The little books printed about a hundred years ago “for the amusement of little masters and misses” must now be looked for in the cabinets of the curious. The type is quaint, the illustrations quainter and the grayish tinted paper abounds in obtrusive specks of embedded dirt. For the covers, gaudy Dutch gilt paper was used, or paper with patchy blobs of startlingly contrasted colours laid on with a brush by young people. The text, always amusing, is of course redolent of earlier days.
1. THE DAISY; or, Cautionary Stories in Verse, adapted to Ideas of Children from Four to Eight Years Old. 1807.
Reprints of this laughter-laden little book, written by Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, followed each other right up to about 1850: in the reprint of the illustrated first (1807) edition before the reader, nothing is omitted and nothing is added.
2. THE COWSLIP; or More Cautionary Stories in Verse. By the author of that much-admired little work, entitled The Daisy. 1811.