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A Good Christmas Box, a collection of carols
BookThis small book, A Good Christmas Box, contains a selection of Christmas carols. It was published in 1847 by G Walters...
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Child's First Tales, written by the Brontë sisters...
Book, Children's book, Illustration, ImageChild's First Tales is a collection of short stories intended for 'infant schools and little children in general'. As su...
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Divine Songs: Attempted in Easy Language for the U...
Book, Children's book, Illustration, ImageIsaac Watts’s collection of moral songs for children was first published in 1715. For the next 150 years, it was one of ...
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Dream book, Nixon's Original Cheshire Prophecy
BookPublished in 1838, this book describes the life of Robert Nixon, a 17th-century prophet; this is followed by Nixon’s pro...
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Dream book, The Oneirocritical Expositor
BookMysticism and fortune-telling were popular subjects for the publishing industry in the early 1800s. This book, subtitle...
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Extracts from the Life of Thomas Paine
PamphletThomas Paine’s influence as a radical political activist at the end of the 18th century was profound. Extracts from Life...
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Gammer G's Garland
Chapbook, Children's book, Illustration, ImageJoseph Ritson, who commissioned William Blake to create the engravings for the Collection of English Songs (1784), had t...
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Hannah More's Cheap Repository Tracts
BookCheap Repository Tracts is the title of a popular series of chapbooks written in the 18th century by evangelist Hannah M...
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Hodgson's Fashionable Dream Book
Chapbook, Illustration, ImageDream books purported to reveal the meanings of dreams, and were extremely popular in the 19th century. They often came...
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Little Red Riding Hood, 1810
Chapbook, Children's book, Illustration, ImageLittle Red Riding Hood is perhaps one of the best known fairy tales. Like most European fairy tales, its origins lie wit...
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Marshall's edition of Cinderella
Book, Children's book, Illustration, ImageCinderella is one of the best-known fairy tales in the western world. The basic elements of the story we know today can...
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Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson
Book, Chapbook, Illustration, ImageRobert Louis Stevenson created the words and illustrations for his Moral Emblems while he was staying in the mountain r...
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Park's New Egyptian Dream Book
Book, Illustration, ImageFulfilling the common human desire to understand the meaning of dreams, 19th-century dream books were a popular and acce...
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Pleasing rhymes, for children
BookPleasing rhymes, for children is a chapbook, a small book made particularly for children, printed around 1830. What were...
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Signor Topsy-Turvy's Wonderful Magic Lantern; or, ...
Chapbook, Children's book, Illustration, ImageSignor Topsy-Turvy's Wonderful Magic Lantern is a more sophisticated version of the ‘world-turned-upside-down’ texts wh...
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