Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. 12mo; 79 volumes; G; Hardcover with DJ; Many volumes have DJ and while most have light shelfwear, they are clean and whole; Boards may have light wear to corners and spine caps, most are clean and strong; Text block for some volumes have name in ink on front endpapers, else volumes are generally clean and tight; Some vols. lack series number--numbers that do not appear on volumes are found in listing from “Private Library, vol. 10, #4, 1977”; CONTENTS: No. 1 (1939) British Birds on Lake, River and Stream / Phyllis Barclay-Smith — No. 2 (First published 1939, reprinted 1941) A Book of Roses / J. Ramsbottom — No. 3 (1941) A Book of Ships / Charles Mitchell — No. 4 (1940) Portraits of Christ / Ernst Kitzinger & Elizabeth Senior — No. 5 (1940) Caricature / E.H. Gombrich and E. Kris — No. 6 (1943) British Shells — No. 7 (1943) Fashions and Fashion Plates 1800-1900 / James Laver — No. 8 (1943) Elizabethan Miniatures /Carl Winter — No. 8 (First published 1943, reprinted 1952) Elizabethan Miniatures /Carl Winter — No. 9 (1943) The Microcosm of London / T. Rowlandson & A.C. Pugin, text by John Summerson — No. 9 (First published 1943, reprinted 1947) The Microcosm of London / T. Rowlandson & A.C. Pugin — No. 10 (1943; DJ from 1949 edition) The Bayeux Tapestry / Eric Maclagan — No. 10 (First published 1943, revised edition 1945, reprinted 1949) The Bayeux Tapestry / Eric Maclagan — No. 11 (1943) Fishes of Britain’s Rivers and Lakes / J.R. Norman — No. 12 (1943) The Poet’s Corner / Sir Max Beerbohm — No. 13 (1943) Edible Fungi / John Ramsbottom — No. 14 (1943) A Book of Lilies / Fred Stoker — No. 15 (1944) Seashore Life and Pattern / T.A. Stephenson — No. 16 (First published 1944, new edition 1947) Children as Artists / R.R. Tomlinson — No. 17 (1945) The Leaves of Southwell / Nikolaus Pevsner — No. 18 (1944) Some British Moths / Norman Riley — No. 19 (1946) Garden Birds / Phyllis Barcklay-Smith — No. 20 (1944) English Ballet / Janet Leeper — No. 21 (1945) Popular Art in Britain / Noel Carrington — No. 22 (1946) Heraldry in England / Anthony Wagner — No. 23 (1945) Poisonous Fungu / John Ramsbottom — No. 24 (1945) Birds of the Sea / R.M. Lockley — No. 25 (1946) Ur, the First Phases / Leonard Woolley — No. 26 (1946) A Book of Toys — Gwen White — No. 27 (1946) Flowers of Marsh and Stream / Iolo A. Williams — No. 28 (First published 1947, reprinted 1950) A Book of English Clocks / R.W. Symonds — No. 29 (1946) Flowers of the Woods / E.J. Salisbury — No. 30 (1947) A Selection of Engravings on Wood by Thomas Bewick / with a note on him by John Rayner — No. 31 (1947) English Book Illustration, 1800-1900 / Philip James — No. 32 (1946) A Christmas Carol in Prose : Being a Ghost Story of Christmas / Charles Dickens — No. 33 (1947) Russian Icons / David Talbot Rice — No. 34 (1947) The English Tradition in Design / John Gloag — No. 35 (1947) A Book of Spiders / W.S. Bristowe — No. 36 (1948) Ballooning / C.H. Gibbs-Smith — No. 37 (1947) Wild Flowers of the Chalk / John Gilmour — No. 38 (1947) Compliments of the Season / L.D. Ettlinger and R.G. Holloway — No. 39 (1948) Woodcuts for Albrecht Dürer / T.D. Barlow — No. 40 (1948) Edward Gordon Craig : Designs for the Theatre / Janet Leeper — No. 41 (1951) British Butterflies / E.B. Ford — No. 42 (1948) British Military Uniforms / James Laver — No. 43 (1948) A Prospect of Wales : a Series of Water-Colours / Kenneth Rowntree, essay by Gwyn Jones — No. 44 (1959) Tulipomania / Wilfrid Blunt — No. 45 (1948) Unknown Westminster Abbey — Lawrence E. Tanner — No. 46 (1948) Highland Dress / George F. Collie — No. 47 (1949) British Reptiles and Amphibia / Malcolm Smith — No. 48 (1949) A Book of Scripts / Alfred Fairbank — No. 49 (1948) Some British Beetles / Geoffrey Taylor — No. 50 (1948) Popular Art in the United States / Erwin O. Christensen — No. 51 (1949) Life in an English Village / sixteen lithographs by Edward Bawden, with an introductory essay by Noel Carrington — No. 52 (1950) The Isle of Wight / Barbara Jones — No. 53 (1950) Flowers of the Meadow / Geoffrey Grigson — No. 54 (1950) Greek Terracottas / T.B.L. Webster — No. 55 (1950) Romney Marsh / John Piper — No. 56 (1950) Early British Railways / Christian Barman — No. 57 (1950) A Book of Moses / Paul Richards — No. 58 (1951) A Book of Ducks / Phyllis Barclay-Smith — No. 59 (First published 1951, reprinted 1952) Ackermann’s Cambridge / Reginald R0ss Williamson — No. 60 (1951) The Crown Jewels / Oliver Warner — No. 61 (1951) An Atlas of Tudor England and Wales : Forty Plates from John Speed’s Pocket Atlas of 1627, Introduced and Described / E.G.R. Taylor — No. 62 (1953; number on series title page is 41, number on spine is 62) Medieval Carvings in Exeter Cathedral / C.J.P. Cave — No. 63 (1952) A Book of Greek Coins / Charles Seltman — No. 64 (1953) Magic Books from Mexico / introduction and notes on the plates by C.A. Burland — No. 65 (1952) Semi-Precious Stones / N. Wooster — No. 66 (1952) Birds of La Plata / with notes by W.H. Hudson — No. 67 (1952) Mountain Birds / R.A.H. Coombes — No. 68 (1953) Animals in Staffordshire Pottery / Bernard Rackham — No. 69 (1954) Ackermann’s Oxford : a Selection of Plates from Rudolph Ackermann’s “A History of the University of Oxford … 1814“ and James Ingram’s “Memorials of Oxford, 1837” / notes by H.M. Colvin — No. 70 (1953) The Diverting History of John Gilpin : Showing How He Went Farther Than He intended and Came Safe Home Again / William Cowper, with many illustrations by Ronald Searle — No. 71 (1954) Egyptian Paintings / Nina M. Davies — No. 72. (First published 1954, reprinted 1956) Misericords : Medieval Life in English Woodcarving / M.D. Anderson — No. 73 (1955) The Picture Book of Cricket / John Arlott — No. 74 (1955) Woodland Birds / Phyllis Barclay-Smith — No. 75 (1957) Monumental Brasses / James Mann — No. 76 (1959) The Sculpture of the Parthenon / P.E. Corbett + The Penguin Story MCMXXXV - MCMLVI (1956) 59 pages, illustrated (b&w, color).
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