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The Dartons, Publishers of  Educational Aids Pastimes & Juvenile Ephemera, 1787 – 1876:  A Bibliographical Checklist.  Together with a description of the Darton Archive as held by the Cotsen Children’s Library, Princeton University Libray & A brief history of printed teaching aids.  By Jill Shefrin.  Linen binding with color dustjacket.  Printed mailing folder.  522 pp.  284 color illustrations.  Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2009

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The Glory of the Art of Writing: The Calligraphic Work of Francesco Alunno of Ferrara.  By Nicolas Barker.  Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2009.  141 pp. (text); 231 pp. (facsimile).  231 color plates.  Two volumes, regular and oblong quarto.  Blue cloth in custom slipcase. Printed mailing folder.

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The Dawn of Wisdom: Selections from the Japanese Collection of the Cotsen Children's Library. Edited by Don J. Cohn, with text by Ann Herring. Illustrated throughout. Paperback (29 x 21 cm.), 136 pp., Los Angeles: The Cotsen Occasional Press, 2000.
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Neatly Dissected for the Instruction of Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Knowledge of Geography: John Spilsbury and Early Dissected Puzzles.
Jill Shefrin. Photographs and illustrations throughout. Paperback (19 x 23 cm.), 40 pp., Los Angeles: The Cotsen Occasional Press, 1999.
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Virtue by Design: Illustrated Chinese Children's Books from the Cotsen Children's Library.
Don J. Cohn. Illustrated throughout. Paperback (29 x 21 cm.), 90 pp., Los Angeles: The Cotsen Occasional Press, 2000.
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Marseilles, Genoa & Pisa: A Beatrix Potter Photograph Album: Representing a Pictorial Biography.
Introduction by Ivy Trent. Illustrated throughout. Cloth (34.5 x 44 cm.), Lunenberg, VT: Stinehour Press, 1998.
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The Beatrix Potter Collection of Lloyd Cotsen.
Margit Sperling Cotsen, Judy Taylor, Anne Stevenson Hobbs, and Ivy Trent. Illustrated throughout. Hardcover (28.5 x 36 cm.), 190 pp. Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2004.
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Nip and the Chocolate: A Picture Letter from Beatrix Potter to Winifred Warne; April 14, 1906. Introduction by Ivy Trent. Illustrated throughout. Paper wrappers, double-sided accordion folded (18 x 11 cm.), 16 pp. Los Angeles and Princeton: Cotsen Family Foundation and the Cotsen Children's Library, 2004.
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Such Constant Affectionate Care: Lady Charlotte Finch -- Royal Governess & the Children of George II. Jill Shefrin. Illustrated throughout (28 x 22.5 cm.), 168 pp. Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2003.
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From the Mundane to the Magical: Photographically Illustrated Children's Books, 1854-1945 and Beyond.
Mus White. Illustrations. Cloth (28.5 x 22 cm.), 268 pp. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1999.
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Little Rhymes by Hans Christian Andersen, with Little Photos by Harald Paetz.
Illustrations. Cloth (15.5 x 14.5 cm.), 24 pp. Los Angeles: The Cotsen Occasional Press, 2002.
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Readers in the Cotsen Children's Library.
Introductions by Andrea Immel. Illustrated throughout. Cloth, double-sided accordion folded (17 x 11 cm.), 46 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Library, 2005.
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A Catalogue of the Cotsen Children's Library from the 15th to the 20th Century.
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