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An Infant's Library [complied by David Chambers for] The PLA Society of Printers.
Pinner, Middlesex:] Cuckoo Hill Press, [n.d.-1975-]1980. 31 works in 31 volumes. 16mo (4 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches; 115 x 63 mm). Variously illustrated with original woodcuts, block designs, etching, artwork or reproductions from earlier sources. Variously bound in non-uniform decorative wrappers, all contained within a single wooden bookcase ( as issued), the sliding front with a pictorial title label ("An Infant's Library…") by Pam G Rueter. limited to only 70 sets (of which few were offered for sale), this homage to early 19th century children’s boxed libraries was produced over a six year period by 30 members of the society of private printers (from Australia, England, Holland, Italy and the USA). The 31st volume is short history of children's boxed libraries by Brian Alderson. The set comprises: 1.) Animal Proverbs… , Biscuit City Press, 1978: woodcuts by Fritz Eichenberg signed by both illustrator and publisher; 2.) Het Hondengevecht , Bonnefant, 1978; 3.) Das Kleine Kinder ABC Buch , Brandywine Press [their first publication], 1979, with an original ink drawing as frontispiece; 4.) The Maiden from the 9th Heaven , Cherub Press, 1978; 5.) Words on Paper , Crabgrass Press, 1978; 6.) Jim's Kite , Cracked Bell Press, 1976; 7.) Castellorum Arenosorum , Cuckoo Hill Press, 1980: etched frontispiece; 8.) My Mysterious Father , Gogmagog Press, 1978; 9.) Life on the Farm , Press of the Golden Key, 1978; 10.) Tiddler to Teens , Happy Dragons Press, 1978; 11.) The Making of Matilda by Laurence Housman Invicta Press, 1979; 12.) Memories of a Welsh Childhood by Lady Osborn, Keepsake Press, 1978; 13.) Eatum Peatum Penny Pie , Iain Bain at the Laverock Press, [n.d.]; 14.) I Spy With My Little Eye , Narbulla Agency, 1975; 15.) Two Moral Tales in Verse [after Heinrich Hoffmann], Pardoe, 1979; 16.) Three Little Ghostesses , Perdix Press, 1978; 17.) A Printer's Insects , The Perhaps Press, 1978, with signed wood-engravings by Jeremy Lee-Potter; 18.) A Apple Pie , The Plough Press, [n.d.]; 19.) The Riddle , P'Nye Press, 1978; 20.) Post Cards , Priapus Press, 1979; 21.) The Midnight Tryst , Proverbial Press, 1978; 22.) In Loco Pueri , The Pump Press, 1979; 23.) Sarah the Snow Queen , Quarto Press, 1979; 24.) A Bestiary for a Precocious Child , Scarlet Ibis Press, 1978; 25.) Layla and Majnun , Septentrio, 1978, 3 colored linocuts; 26.) Skool Rools , Susan Chambers at the Slow Camel Press, 1979; 27.) A Wendy-House Rehearsal , Stilt Press, 1979; 28.) London Cries, Peter Stockham, 1979; 29.) Marigold's Dream , Insegna della Tarasca, 1978; 30.) A Cradle Song by Thomas Dekker, Typographeum, 1978, music by Keith Kibler. Cf. David Chamber's article on his experience creating this series in The Private Library , Third Series, Vol VI: 1 (Spring, 1983).