The World's Fair: Or, Children's prize gift book of the Great Exhibition of 1851 : describing the beautiful inventions and manufactures exhibited therein : with pretty stories about the people who have made and sent them : and how they live when at home.Anonymous
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The World's Fair: Or, Children's prize gift book of the Great Exhibition of 1851 : describing the beautiful inventions and manufactures exhibited therein : with pretty stories about the people who have made and sent them : and how they live when at home.
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Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) -- Juvenile literature
By M.E.T. author of "Silver Blossoms to produce Golden
Fruit."--Embellished with illustrative engravings, and eight pages of
plates, beautifully printed in lithography.
2s. 6d. elegantly bound in cloth.
ILLUSTRATED JUVENILE KEEPSAKE OF AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION. With
upwards of sixty engravings.
1s. sewed,--or 1s. 6d. bound in cloth, lettered.
SKETCHES OF LITTLE BOYS;
The Well-behaved Little Boy. The Attentive, Inattentive, Covetous
Dilatory, Exact, Quarrelsome, and Good Little Boy. By S. Lovechild.
1s. sewed,--Square size, with seven coloured engravings.
SKETCHES OF LITTLE GIRLS;
The Good-natured Little Girl, the Thoughtless, the Vain, the Orderly,
the Slovenly, the Snappish, the Persevering, the Forward, the Modest,
and the Awkward, Little Girl. By Solomon Lovechild.
1s. sewed,--Square size, with seven coloured engravings.
THE THREE BASKETS, Or, THE LITTLE GARDENER, LITTLE PAINTER, AND LITTLE
CARPENTER
Describing how, and in what manner, Henry, Richard, and Charles, were
occupied during the absence of their Father. By Mrs. Burden.
1s. sewed,--Square size, with seven coloured engravings.
DAME WIGGINS OF LEE, AND HER WONDERFUL CATS;
A humorous tale, about the worthy old Dame and her Seven whiskered
favourites: written by a Lady of Ninety.
1s. sewed,--Square size, with fifteen coloured engravings.
EASY AND INTERESTING HISTORIES, FOR LITTLE FOLKS;
BY MISS CORNER, Author of the Historical Library, &c.
_Price sixpence each, printed in large type, and embellished with four
pages of descriptive tinted plates, and sewed in fancy wrappers._
THE ANCIENT BRITONS.
Describing their Manners and Customs; and how they were conquered, and
Britain was governed by the Romans. 6d.
THE CONQUEST OF THE ROMANS AND BRITONS BY THE SAXONS; and an
interesting Account of the Saxon Heptarchy, or the Seven Saxon
Kingdoms in England at one time.
6d. With four pages of illustrations.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALFRED THE GREAT.
an interesting Narrative. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.
THE NORMAN CONQUEST; four pages of illustrations.
And the manner in which the People of England lived during the Reign
of William the Conqueror. An interesting Narrative. 6d.
ENGLAND, AND ITS PEOPLE IN THE FEUDAL TIMES.
6d. Four pages of Illustrations
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND; WITH THE MANNERS AND CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
6d. With four pages of illustrations.
AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH
CENTURIES.
Showing the Condition of the People, and how they lived and dressed
during the Reign of Henry the Seventh, to the death of William the
Third. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.
AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH
CENTURIES.
Showing the Condition of the People, their modes of life, and how they
lived and dressed from the Reign of James the Second, to that of Queen
Victoria. 6d. Four pages of illustrations.
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