[ Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., London publishers. ] Illustrated booksellers' 'order form': 'A New Series of Children's Toy Books'.

Author: 
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 4, Stationers Hall Court, London, EC4 [ catalogue of 'Children's Toy Books' ]
Publication details: 
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 4, Stationers Hall Court, London, E.C.4. [1919, for 1920.]
£65.00
SKU: 16605

8pp., 4to. Illustrations of covers on every page. Stapled. In good condition, on aged paper, with rusted staples. The cover (with a central photograph depicting the covers of eight titles) is headed: 'Order Form. | A New Series of Children's Toy Books. | The Publishers offer in this new series one of the most striking and original Coloured Toy Books ever published. They will please little children. | These Toy Books will command an immediate sale in any part of the country. They are not expensive.' In right-hand margin of cover: 'A Selection of 49 Titles'. In left-hand margin: 'Prices Range from 3d. net to 1/6 net.' At foot of cover: 'Artistic, Pleasing and Instructive. | WILL READILY SELL ON SIGHT', followed by the publishers' address. A collection of items characteristic of the period, with the back cover describing 'Novelties in Calendars, 1920', including 'The Everyman Calendar and The Robert Louis Stevenson Calendar', with two illustrations. Scarce: no other copy traced, either on COPAC or on OCLC WorldCat.