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A collection of ballads by Thomas Crampton, 1860 Photograph: British Library

The Children's Fairy Geography: or, a Merry Trip … Eighth thousand by Forbes Edward Winslow, 1886 Photograph: British Library

A study of the American Commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education and self-government. Edited by NS Shaler, 1894 Photograph: British Library

Advert in History of Stafford and Guide to the Neighbourhood by Charles Calvert, 1886 Photograph: British Library

The Chromatographic Chronicle of English History by R Quinton, 1864 Photograph: British Library

Advert in Monsieur at Home from Albertt Rhodes, 1885 Photograph: British Library

Illustrated Poems and Songs for Young People. Edited by Lucy Sale Barker, 1885 Photograph: British Library

An advert in The Crime of a Christmas Toy. A detective story by Henry Herman, 1893 Photograph: British Library

From Az Osztrák-Magyar … Published in Budapest, 1885 Photograph: British Library

Gately's World's Progress. A general history of the earth's construction. Edited by Charles E Beale, 1886 Photograph: British Library

Gleanings from popular authors, 1885 Photograph: British Library

Here and There in our own Country. Embracing sketches of travel and descriptions of places, etc. By popular writers (Edmund Kirke, Louise Seymour Houghton and others), 1885 Photograph: British Library

Here and There in our own Country. Embracing sketches of travel and descriptions of places, etc. By popular writers (Edmund Kirke, Louise Seymour Houghton and others), 1885 Photograph: British Library

The Australian abroad by James Hingston, 1885 Photograph: British Library

The Purchase of the North Pole: a sequel to From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, 1891 Photograph: British Library

Wensleydale and Swaledale Guide by John Leyland of Forest Hill, 1896 Photograph: British Library

A satire in verse on the sale of gin and beer from The House that Jack built by George Cruikshank Photograph: British Library