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THE COUNTRY ALPHABET [Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books].

Frederick Warne: London, nd (c 1880s?). Item #99-0107

Color illustr, 10.5 x 9, linen backed pp, covers very worn and darkened, bottom forecorner chipping, spine badly broken, contents quite worn, too, with linen edges unraveling; blank pp (linen backing) used as a Victorian scrapbook, with newspape illustr, poems, color gift cards (including a die-cut chromolitho triptych of "Ten Little N---s" published by Raphael Tuck & Son. An interesting but fragile piece.

Price: $75.00