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paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

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Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

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Einband - fest (Hardcover). Zustand: New.

Einband - fest (Hardcover). Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A faithful facsimile of this festive chapbook for children, complete with the original in-text woodcuts. A faithful facsimile of the 1740 chapbook 'Christmas Entertainments'. This volume is Number IV in Ye Leadenhall Presse's "Vellum-Parchment Shilling Series of Miscellaneous Literature".Bound in vellum wraps over plain wraps.'Christmas Entertainments' is a charming festive chapbook for children, containing festive-themed tales and poems. Some of the tales mock the supernatural, as this work was published after the 1735 Witchcraft Act.Illustrated with in-text woodcuts.Attributed to Dick Merryman.Ye Leadenhall Presse helped the revive the popularity of chapbooks in Victorian England. In the original publisher's paper vellum wraps over plain wraps. Externally, generally smart. Repairs to the backstrip and extremities. Wraps are age-toned with a few light marks and spots. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age-toned and generally clean with scattered spots. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

First edition thus, a reprint of the 1740 edition of Round About Our Coal Fire, a festive collection of popular tales and folk knowledge, reprinted numerous times in the 1730s and attributed to one Dick Merryman. This edition is number IV in Ye Leadenhall Presse's "Vellum-Parchment Shilling Series of Miscellaneous Literature", and is a beautiful example of their fragile stylistic reproductions of 18th-century literature. As often with Christmas tales from the time much of its content is concerned with the supernatural, and it provides humorous accounts of fairies and goblins, as well as the signs of a witch: "found frequently spinning at the door; she must have a black cat, two or three broomsticks, and a few diabolical imps" (p. 15). The Witchcraft Act, ruling it a crime to claim that any human being had magical powers, passed in 1735 and contemporary works like the present which mocked such beliefs were increasingly common. Editions such as this were part of the chapbook revival which proved immensely popular at the turn of the century. Ye Leadenhall Presse was at the forefront of this revival, and the founder, Andrew White Tuer (1838-1900) was passionate about both the chapbooks and pamphlets he was reproducing, and the process of cheap manufacture that made them possible. He studied and experimented with various printing techniques, and invented 'Stickphast' glue at the end of the 1860s. Other members of his firm patented various devices and mechanisms, many of which were expressly tailored to the book trades. This copy, though unmarked as such, is from Ken Klosterman's (1933-2020) "Salon De Magie", his renowned collection of magicana, filled with ephemera, books, and magical apparatus. Trigesimo-secundo. Numerous woodcuts in the text. Original printed japon wrappers, titles to front cover in black. Small bookstamp to front free endpaper. Red ownership seal reading "O'Dowd" and sinicized as "ao du" beneath, on title page being that of Joseph H. O'Dowd, resident of Shanghai, contributor to the North China Herald, and editor of the Sunday newspaper Sport and Gossip. Loss to wrappers at spine ends, book block slightly shaken, faint toning to margins, a very good and notably attractive copy of a cheaply produced publication.…