Blue Peter, 1912. Golden Door. Hideaway House. Happy Flower. Hazel and Willow. Little Old Woman of X. Little Pink Petticoat, 1913. Puss in the Palace, 1914. Scrappety-Hop and Pearly-Top. Ugly Princess. A cardboard boxed case of ten miniature volumes published by Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press, London, mostly with 31 green-printed pages and a glossy colour frontispiece, selected from a series, `The Tippeny-Tuppeny Books' (a series of 21 titles), printed by Thomas Forman & Sons, Nottingham, England. The case is 150 mm. tall, 140 mm. wide, and 40mm. deep with a printed paper covered lid. One or two frontispieces loose. Box lid crushed on one inner corner, and slightly distressed with edge-wear and age-toning. Each book, 73 x 60mm. Original pastel paper over cardboard; color paper pictorial label is applied to the front cover, the rear covers are just the binding paper with no decoration. Bondy, 73. Welsh, 3301, 4478, and 6206. Blue Peter: OCLC, 43762780. WorldCat locates 3 copies worldwide (Cambridge, Virginia, and Indiana). Golden Door: 43794473, 3 copies (Harvard, Virginia, Indana). Hideaway House: not found in WorldCat. Happy Flower: 1465414799, 1 copy (Virginia). Hazel and Willow: 43822444, 1 copy (Virginia). Little Old Woman of X: 1004779056, 1 copy (Franklin and Marshall College). Little Pink Petticoat: 237345259, 1 copy (Virginia). Puss in the Palace: 270896179, 4 copies Oxford, Pierpont Morgan, Indiana, Virginia). Scrappety-Hop and Pearly-Top: 43848252, 2 copies (Virginia, Indiana). Ugly Princess: 43794595, 3 copies (Oxford, Virginai, Indiana). Milford was fond of boxes and 'My Own Box of Books', and the 'Play Box' are similar presentation sets - but this particular set is hitherto unrecorded. Hazel and Willow note the
illustrator as Lilian Amy Govey who was an English artist and children's illustrator specializing in fairy subjects. It is interesting to note that Lilian Amy Govey was born in 1886 and died in 1974. Considering that most of these books were published in the very early 1900s Govey would have been maybe 20 years old when this work was done. Another book, Betty Blue notes the British illustrator as Rosa C. Petherick (1871-1931). All of the books have the same endpaper design, a delicate design of green vines and purple flowers and are printed with a same green ink that was used to print the text pages.