A brief look (one part post) at children's books cover art from the Victorian era through to 1925. These are mostly hard-bound books that feature colour printing, embossing and gilding as well as applied lithographic colour printing:
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| 1871 Better Than Rubies |
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| 1872 Bluff Crag or A Good Word Costs Nothing |
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| 1873 Rose and Kate or The Little Howards |
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| 1875 A Cruise in the Acorn |
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| 1877 Stories About Horses Compiled by T.B.S. |
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| 1877 The Peep Show With 300 Pictures |
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| 1878c Birds & their Nests by Mary Howitt |
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| 1880 The Raccoon J.B.Lippincott & Co. Philadelphia. |
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| 1880c Chatterbox Album of Animals |
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| 1881 In His Father's Arms |
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| 1882 Abroad Thomas Crane & Ellen Houghton cover illustration by Thomas Crane |
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| 1883 John Angelo at the Water Colour Exhibition Daniel Lothrop & Co., Boston, MA |
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| 1883 Perseus the Gorgon Slayer |
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| 1883 Some of my Feathered and Four-Footed Friends |
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| 1885c Childhood's Wonders |
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| 1886 The Favourite Nursery Series Little Jack Frost's Album |
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| 1886 The Golden Play Book Illustrated Frederick Warne & Co. London |
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| 1886 The Large Picture Primer |
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| 1888 Play Days Cassell & Company Limited, New York, London, Paris & Melbourne |
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| 1888 Edith Series Editha's Burglar |
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| 1889 Things will take a turn by Beatrice Harraden |
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| 1890 Three Fairy Princesses Marcus Ward & Co. Ltd. London, Belfast & New York |
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| 1891 Chitty Chatty Stories McLoughlin Bros. New York Red Line Series |
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| 1892 The Admiral's Caravan by Charles E. Carryl |
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| 1893 The Favourite Book of Nursery Tales With 72 full-page Coloured Pictures |
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| 1894 Favourite Tales for the Nursery Thomas Nelson & Son. London, Edinburgh & New York |
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| 1894 Gerty's Triumph |
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| 1894 Tales from Hans Andersen |
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| 1895 The Story of Rosina and other Verses by Austin Dobson Illustrated by Hugh Thomson |
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| 1896 Grimm's Household Stories Illustrated |
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| 1896 Mother Goose's Rhymes Jingles & Fairy Tales |
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| 1896 Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves |
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| 1896 Tales from Hans Andersen |
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| 1897 Fairy Tales from the Far North by P.C. Asbjönsen Translated by H. Brækstad |
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| 1897 Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There |
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| 1897c Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
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| 1898 A Bunch of Cherries by L.T. Meade |
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| 1898 An Almanac of Twelve Sports by William Nicholson with words by Rudyard Kipling |
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| 1898 Daddy Jake The Runaway and Other Stories by "Uncle Remus" Joel Chandler Harris |
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| 1898 Denise and Ned Toodles by Gabrielle F. Jackson |
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| 1898 The Boys of '98 by James Otis |
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| 1898 The Fairy Book by Miss Mulock |
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| 1898 The Giant Scissors by Annie Fellowes Johnson Cosy Corner Series |
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| 1905 Little Pickles |
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| 1907c Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
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| 1910 Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge |
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| 1925 Pinocchio illustrated by Frederick Richardson |
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| n.d. Chatterbox Album of Animals |
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| n.d. Kiddie Record Song and Story Book Number Two cover by Clara M. Burd |