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CATHERINE THE GREAT GIVES ADVICE TO THE FUTURE TSAR AND HISBROTHER23. [CATHERINE II, Empress of Russia]. Le CzarewitzChlore. Conte Moral. De main impériale & demaitresse. Berlin, Fréderic Nicolaï, Lausanne, FrançoisGrasset, 1782.8vo, pp. [2], 42, [2 blank], with half-title, text withinornamental border, two vignettes and a head-piece; veryoccasional light soiling, a clean crisp copy in nearcontemporary paper wrappers printed with a floral pattern,hand-coloured in red, yellow and green.£3500First edition, very rare, of a speculum principis of theEnlightenment, by one of the time’s most enlightenedmonarchs. Le Czarewitz Chlore is a moral tale written byCatherine II of Russia for her two grandsons, the future Alexander I and hisyounger brother Constantine, while their father and mother, the future Paul I andMaria Feodorovna, were away on their fourteen-month tour of Western Europe.Alexander and Constantine, who were only 4 and 3 years old at the time of theappearance of the work, were raised by Catherine.A rare item. No copies appear on COPAC, while Worldcat records only 2 copies inthe US (Yale and the Lilly Library) and none in France.24. [JUVENILE CHAPBOOKS]. A collection of 15 chapbooks for children.Wellington and London, printed by F. Houlston and Son, c. 1804-38.Fifteen works, 32mo, all in immaculate condition in original printed wrappers,preserved in a dark blue hard-grain morocco case. £2500An exceptional collection of juvenile chapbooks, all illustrated, the majority handcoloured,from the press of Frances Houlston and Son. Edward Houlston foundeda bookshop in Wellington, Shropshire in 1779. After his death in 1800, his widowFrances took over the business and began to print books in partnership with herson Edward Houlston II. Their imprint, ‘F. Houlston and Son’, is first recorded in1804. The operation was a success and by the 1820s, the company was printing inLondon. In 1838, two years before Edward’s death, Frances ceased publishingunder the ‘Houlston and Son’ imprint: the new imprint, Houlston & Stoneman, wasused until 1856.The full contents are: DERENZY, Margaret. Nothing at all. London and Wellington,1835, ‘fifth edition’ but the only edition recorded; FIRST STEP to Learning. Londonand Wellington, 1832, unrecorded second edition of an attractive ABC; HISTORY(The) of little King Pippin. Wellington, [c. 1804-38], first Houlston edition; HISTORY(The), of Sir Richard Whittington and his Cat. Wellington, [c. 1804-38], first