ADAM, Albert; ROSTAING, Jules

Jardin Des Plantes En Estampes, le

Paris: Maison Martinet - Hautecoeur, Frères, 1860. With Twenty-Four Superb Hand Colored Lithograph Plates Depicting All Species of Animals [ADAM, Albert, illustrator]. ROSTAING, Jules. Le Jardin Des Plantes en Estampes. Dessiné et Lithographié par A. Adam. Accompagné d'une histoire De Tous Les Animaux Que Possède La Ménagerie par Jules Rostaing. Paris: Maison Martinet - Hautecoeur, Frères, [1860]. First edition. Large oblong quarto (10 3/16 x 13 1/2 inches; 259 x 343 mm.). [iv], 30, [1, table], [1, blank] pp. Twenty four superb hand-colored lithograph plates, heightened with gum arabic and with multiple images. Some light foxing to text leaves only, the plates bright and clean. Publisher's black pebble-grain cloth, front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, lower cover with center blind-stamped decoration, yellow coated end-papers, front inner hinge expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Neat early ink inscription on front fly-leaf dated 1860. The wonderful hand-colored plates depict Bison, Deer, Moose, Antelope, Lama, Goats, Birds, Giraffe, Buffalo, Elephant, Hippopotomus, Rhino, Camel, Zebra, Donkey, Lion, Tiger, Leopard, Jackal, Wolves, Hyena, Orang-Outang, Monkeys, Dogs, Birds of Prey, Crocodile, Snakes, Gazelle, and People. Albert ADAM (1833-1900) was the son of Caricaturist and lithographer Jean-Victor Adam (1801-1867) whom he often assisted with his commissions. OCLC locates just one copy - The Morgan Libary, NY (Gordon Ray copy). Unknown to Denise, Bibliography of the Jardin des Plantes. .

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Book number: 04374

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: ROSTAING, Jules Color-Plate Books Books in French Natural History

ANDERSEN, Hans Christian

Nye Eventyr [New Fairy Tales]

Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1845-1848. The Original Stories That Catapulted Andersen to Fame ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Nye Eventyr. Kjøbenhavn: C.A. Reitzel, 1845-1848. First edition, complete, two volumes (collections) bound together, of Anderson's second series of fairy tales, the first issue of Collection Two, the second issue of Collection One. Small octavo (6 1/4 x 4 in; 157 x 103 mm). Collection One: 47, [1, blank]; 68; 52 pp. Collection Two: 72; 60 pp. Two leaves, comprised of table of contents and dedication page to Collection Two, have been misbound out of sequence. Otherwise, complete with half titles for each volume, both shared title pages, both shared contents leaves, all dedication leaves, all half titles for each fairy tale, and all five regular title pages. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Marbled edges. Some light scattered foxing and toning, and an occasional inkspot. Otherwise a very nice copy. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case. A work of extreme scarcity with OCLC/KVK recording only a handful of copies in libraries worldwide, and with possibly only one other example, the Klein copy (1980), coming to auction within the last thirty-three years of ABPC records (Sotheby Hodgson's catalogue note vague and incomplete). These stories were originally issued in parts; very few have survived in that state. The publisher, Reitzel, collected the individual parts in their original printings, added tables of contents, and published them in anthologies as here. The importance of these stories, here - staggeringly - in their first edition, cannot be underestimated. They have become deeply embedded in the Western world's cultural consciousness, as timeless as our memories of childhood. More to the point, however, is that, unlike Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, who were compilers and talented interpreters of traditional folk stories in their respective cultures, in this second series of Andersen tales, the stories are wholly original, the product of a brilliant imagination, featuring characters of great love and yearning who, misunderstood and misfits in a cruel world, have become transcendent heroes for humanity of all ages. The stories have become the cornerstones of Western children's literature, the characters eternal psychological archetypes. "For his second collection, Nye Eventyr (New Fairy Tales), Andersen wrote some of his most important and famous stories. He moved away from traditional folk material towards creating tales that came from his imagination. The words ‘told for children' were omitted from the new title as Andersen sought to engage adults and children alike. He had found a genre in which he had a unique voice" (British Library Online Gallery). The Stories: Volume One 1. The Angel 2. The Nightingale 3. The Sweethearts 4. The Ugly Duckling 5. The Fir Tree 6. The Snow Queen 7. Night Ghosts 8. The Red Shoes 9. The Jumpers 10. Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep 11. Holger Danske Volume Two 1. The Old Street Lamp 2. The Neighboring Family 3. The Darning Needle 4. Little Tuck 5. The Shadow 6. The Old House 7. The Drop of Water 8. The Little Match Girl 9. The Happy Family 10. The Story of a Mother 11. The Shirt Collar Nielsen 467 & 529. .

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Book number: 01243

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: European Literature Fairy Tales Fantasy Literature Literature

[AUTOMATON]

["the Tailor and His Two Apprentices"]

[Philadelphia]: Shoenhut, 1890. An Automaton After Meggendorfer [AUTOMATON]. ["The Tailor and His Two Apprentices"]. [Philadelphia: Schoenhut, n.d. c. 1890-1900] Boxed automaton. Image size: 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches; 293 x 395 mm. Box size: 13 5/8 x 17 5/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 345 x 447 x 130 mm. Three cardboard figures in original paper-covered wooden box, with glass cover and gold-painted metal frame. A sliding panel on the back of the box reveals cardboard parts moved by clockwork mechanisms, which can be wound up with the original metal key. Paper labels on box a little chipped. The figures are still very bright, and the mechanisms move very smoothly. An excellent example of an automaton from the period. Schoenhut blue trademark label to rear. The scene depicts three figures in the style of Lothar Meggendorfer's illustrations to his movable books. In the center, a tailor sits on a table with his legs crossed, drowsily stitching a garment, while nodding off. On his right, an apprentice also sits on the table with his legs crossed stitching a garment and, while sneezing, sticks a pin into his dozing master's bottom. On his left, another apprentice looks on while ironing and stops in anticipation of the sneeze. The tailor jerks awake at the pinprick, but soon dozes off, and the whole cycle begins again. Schoenhut automata (sometimes referred to as 'Clockwork Tableaux' or 'Living Pictures') have become scarce; we are aware of only one other coming into the marketplace within the last ten years. As might be easily imagined, automata for children did not endure their enthusiastic play any more than movable books easily survived the eager little hands that played with them. A very similar automaton appears in Mary Hillier's Automata & mechanical Toys. An Illustrated History (Jupiter Books, 1976, pp. 96-97). It is referred to as a 'Clockwork tableau by Schoenhut, c. 1890. USA, collection of Mrs Margaret Whitton.' Prior to this the moveable toys of the nineteenth century used sand as the motive power and "a great number of these toys were made in Germany, especially when the colourful process of Chromo-lithography provided cheap, gay scenes. 'Do-it-yourself kits' were sold with instructions for making up the sand-hopper apparatus at the back. The idea seems to have been introduced into America about 1839, but superior models with a clockwork mechanism were marketed in the [18]'70s by Albert Schoenhut.. He tried out 'Living Pictures' with strong clockwork motion based on the old sand toys. The cut-outs were made of cardboard and the designs were somewhat amateurish, though droll in action." (Hillier pp.96-97). "As popular late 19th- and early 20th-century toys, living pictures once entertained children of all ages with a blend of fine art, craft, and mass-produced clockwork. This type of simple automata, like its more sophisticated cousins usually found in wealthier homes, also functioned as a parlor decoration (an adult toy, if you will permit the expression) rather than a child's plaything.  Very young children, no doubt, needed supervision around these delicate clockwork toys with their sheet glass windows.  Nevertheless, they fascinated everyone with their cleverness, humor, and connections to everyday tasks and experiences, illustrating Victorian values imaginatively in a miniaturized space." (Rick Sherrin. Playing with Living Pictures: Clockwork Tableaux). Albert Schoenhut (1848-1912) was born in Wurtenberg, Germany to a toy-making family. His father and grandfather made wooden dolls, rocking horses, and wagons. At a young age, Albert began making toy pianos in his home. Albert's toy pianos, more than just playthings, stayed in tune and were accompanied by sheet music to encourage children to play. In 1866, a buyer for Wanamaker's department store heard of young Albert's talent and brought the seventeen year old to Philadelphia where he worked as a repairman on glass sounding pieces in German toy pianos that had been damaged in shipping. In 1872, Shoenhut left Wanamaker's to establish the Schoenhut Piano Company on Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia. As his toy piano business grew, Shoenhut added other toy instruments to his line and expanded it to include dolls, circus figures, toys, and, as here, automata. By 1901, the firm had 125 employees making novelty toys. By the time of Albert's death in 1912, Schoenhut Piano Company was the largest toy company in America and the first in the United States to export toys to Germany. 140 years after it's founding it is still active as a maker of toy pianos, though, after multiple changes in ownership since Schoenhut's death in 1912, its archives have been scattered and all records of their vintage automata are, alas, lost. .

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Book number: 02129

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Decorative Arts Games Movable Books Toys

BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael

Coral Island, the: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean. .

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1858. Excessively Rare First Edition, First Issue, of "The Coral Island" The Edgar Osborne Copy Exhibited at The Festival of Britain Books in 1951 BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael. The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean.. With Illustrations by the Author. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1858. First edition, first issue, with the plate "Terrible Encounter with a Shark" facing p. 76 (in the second issue, it was tipped in as the frontispiece). Octavo (7 x 4 5/8 inches; 177 x 117 mm.). viii, [9]-438, [2, blank] pp. Color-printed frontispiece, color-printed pictorial title, and six color-printed plates after drawings by the author. Plate facing p. 214 with original tissue-guard. Publisher's first issue binding of royal blue diagonal ripple-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Original pale yellow coated endpapers. The binding is worn and the gilt on the front cover is quite dull. The spine has been expertly repaired with a small piece missing from the center left and some loss of cloth at head and foot. Corners a little worn , inner hinges expertly restored. Neat early ink presentation (December 25th 1859) on front pastedown. Small ink stain on fore-edge affecting pp. 297 to end. Page 387/388 has the top blank margin (1 x 3 3/8 inches) torn away not affecting any text but just touching the page number on verso. There is a small stain at the top blank corner of page 339. There are also several leaves with small portions of the lower blank corners missing (possibly original paper-faults). We have been super critical in our description - overall a good copy of this extremely scarce nineteenth-century children's book. Only a handful of copies of the first issue in the original cloth have sold at auction in the past fifty years. This copy comes from the library of a very well-known collector of English Literature who died in 2008. It was exhibited at the Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books 1951 which was arranged by the National Book League at the Victoria & Albert Museum as exhibit no. 68. The original exhibition slip is loosely inserted. Together with a copy (ex library) of the original 1951 Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books catalog listing this copy on p. 33 (item no. 68) listing the lender as the renowned librarian and founder of one of the premier collections of children's fiction, Edgar Osborne. "Most of the incidents used in the plot of ‘The Coral Island', the author's most famous book, Ballantyne culled from an obscure work entitled ‘The Island Home; or, The Young Cast-Aways', by James F. Bowman, who wrote under the pseudonym of Christopher Romaunt. ‘The Island Home' was published in Boston, U.S.A. in 1851, and by Nelson's of Edinburgh in 1852, and Ballantyne took a copy with him to Burntisland, near Edinburgh, where he spent a fortnight's holiday during the summer of 1857. The full story is given in chapter six of Ballantyne the Brave. The writer's other main source of information was ‘Recent Exploring Expeditions to the Pacific, and the South Seas' by J.S. Jenkins, published by Nelsons in 1853" (Quayle). Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825-1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than one hundred books. He was also an accomplished artist, and exhibited some of his water-colors at the Royal Scottish Academy. The Coral Island (1858) is the most popular of the Ballantyne novels still read and remembered today, but because of one mistake he made in that book, in which he gave an incorrect thickness of coconut shells, he subsequently attempted to gain first-hand knowledge of his subject matter. For instance, he spent some time living with the lighthouse keepers at the Bell Rock before writing The Lighthouse, and while researching for Deep Down he spent time with the tin miners of Cornwall. Edgar Osborne (1890-1978) was a distinguished librarian, an able administrator, scholar and collector, who founded one of the premier collections of children's fiction, the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books 1566-1910, volume I, p. 322; Quayle. R.M. Ballantyne. A Bibliography of First Editions. 12a; Sadleir 103. .

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Book number: 05045

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books European Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature

BRES, Jean Pierre

Simples Histoires Trouvees Dans Un Pot Au Lait

Paris: Chez Lefuel, 1825. Complete and Exceptionally Fine in its Original Box Eight Superb Hand Colored Stipple Engravings of Young 'Entrepreneurs' BRES, Jean Pierre. Simples Histoires, Trouvées Dans Un Pot Au Lait. Par M. Bres. Paris: Chez Lefuel, 1825. Eight small octavo volumes in original hand-colored lithograph box. Each volume with a color-printed stipple engraving, finished in color by hand. First Edition. Eight small octavo volumes (6 x 4 inches; 152 x 101 mm.). [1-7], 8-34, [2, blank]; [1-7], 8-35, [1, blank]; [1-7], 8-35, [1, blank]; [1-7], 8-37, [3, blank]; [1-7], 8-34, [2, blank]; [2, blank], [iv], vi, [7-9], 10-39, [3, blank]; [1-7], 8-34, [2, blank]; [1-7], 8-32, pp. Each volume has a color-printed stipple engraving, finished in color by hand, of a child dressed in the manner to suit each cover title. The title-pages of all volumes are titled Simples Histoires, Trouvées Dans Un Pot Au Lait. (Simple Stories Found in a Pot of Milk). Original color lithographed pale blue stiff wrappers, finished by hand in colors. Housed in the original double-compartment box with the title and a colored lithograph on the lid. The lid of the box is bordered in decoratively embossed gold foil which continues down the edges of the lid. Lower portion of box with gold border, original pink and blue ribbon pulls. An exceptionally fine and complete set in the original lithographed box. Some light sporadic foxing, small ex library number stamped in blue on verso of each title-page and in the margin of one other leaf. This is a spectacular and wonderful set of this early French children's title. In the Gumuchian catalog it is featured as the color frontispiece and its value is listed at 3000 FF. Exceptionally rare complete and in the original box. The titles: Le Petit Batelier (The Little Boatman) Le Petit Savoyard (The Little Boy of Savoy) Le Petit Ecolier (The Little Schoolgirl) Le Petit Berger (The Little Shepherd) La Petite Vandangeuse (The Little Grape Picker) La Petite Laitiere (The Little Milk Maid) La Petite Marchande De Fleurs (The Little Flower Seller) Les Petits Fagots (The Little Firewood Gatherer) Gumichian. Les Livres de L'Enfance du XV au XIX Siècle. #916 and color frontispiece (showing four of the eight color plates). .

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Book number: 03972

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Color-Plate Books Books in French

BRUNTON, Violet, illustrator; WILSON, Romer

Silver Magic

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. A Collection of the World's Best Fairy Tales Illustrated by Violet Brunton BRUNTON, Violet, illustrator. Silver Magic. A Collection of the World's Best Fairy Fairy Tales from all Countries. Edited and Arranged by Romer Wilson. With Illustrations in Colour & Line by Violet Brunton. London: Jonathan Cape, [1929]. First edition. Octavo ( 7 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 201 x 137 mm.). [1]-432 pp. Eight color plates and forty-seven black & white illustrations in the text including several full-page. Publisher's silver cloth over boards, covers decorated with blue stars, spine decorated and lettered in blue, top edge stained blue. Small neat ink date "1929" at top of front free endpaper, otherwise a near fine copy of this lovely little book of fairy tales including such favorites as The Marriage of Cupid & Psyche, The a History of Reynard the Fox, Clever Alice, Lohengrin, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and many others. Violet Ella Evelyn Brunton (1878-1951) aka Victor du Lac. Born in Brighouse, Yorkshire, her father, Arthur D. Brunton, was also an artist. She was educated at the Southport School of Art, the Liverpool School of Art, and finally, the Royal College of Art in London. She trained in woodcarving, miniature painting, and illustration. She won a County Palatine Scholarship and a City of Liverpool scholarship and a number of medals while still a student. By 1903-04, Brunton's distinctive illustrations, drawings, and designs were being published in art magazines. During the 1920s, Brunton contributed illustrations to a number of books, including two volumes of fairy tales, edited by Romer Wilson - Green Magic (1928) and Silver Magic (1929). In her oil paintings, she tended towards classical and mythological subjects. She exhibited work at the Royal Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute, the Royal Society of Miniature Painters (to which she was elected in 1925), and elsewhere. .

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Book number: 05433

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: WILSON, Romer Illustrated Books Fairy Tales

CRANE, Walter, illustrator

Triplets: Comprising the Baby's Opera, the Baby's Bouquet, and the Baby's Own ÆSop

London: George Routledge & Sons Limited, 1899. Walter Crane's "Triplets" Deluxe Edition One of Twenty Special Copies Printed on Japanese Vellum CRANE, Walter, [illustrator]. Triplets: Comprising The Baby's Opera, The Baby's Bouquet, and The Baby's Own Æsop. With the Original Designs in Colour by Walter Crane; Printed by Edmund Evans. London: George Routledge & Sons Limited, 1899. First Collected Special Edition printed on Japanese Vellum Limited to 20 copies (this being no. 11). Large oblong quarto (11 9/16 x 12 3/8 inches; 294 x 314 mm.). 192 pp. with illustrations by Crane printed in color by Edmund Evans on every page. The first two titles with printed music. Publisher's brown buckram over boards, marbled end-papers, top edge gilt, others uncut. New red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Spine ends expertly strengthened, minimal soiling to buckram. Housed in a full tan buckram, felt-lined clamshell case (by Sangorski & Sutcliffe) with a red leather spine label lettered in gilt. Overall, a very good and clean copy of this title in the publisher's binding. Illustrated with dozens of exquisite color illustrations by Walter Crane representing the three works originally published in 1877-1887. A new preface was written by Crane for this edition and new illustrations on the preface and title pages. Walter Crane's color illustrations for these three children's stories, many full-page, with decorative borders and vignettes throughout. Considered to contain some of the best illustrations ever rendered by Walter Crane on Japanese Vellum, thus increasing the clarity and improving the color tone. "Walter Crane (1845-1915) was an English artist and illustrator. He is primarily known for his illustrations of the Faerie Queen as well as numerous children's books, however he also worked on designs for political pamphlets and even wallpaper, ceramic tiles and other decorative art. During the 1800s Walter Crane was considered Britain's greatest socialist artist, and he was asked to illustrate many socialist publications. However his best work was non-political in nature. He earned a good living doing book illustrations, and he was especially in demand as an illustrator of children's books such as nursery rhymes, fables and alphabet books. His drawings often featured child in the garden motifs, and were extremely influential in shaping the direction of children's illustrated literature, along with his collaborator, the printer Edmund Evans. Despite his versatility as an artist and the wide range of his subject matter, Crane was always best known as a children's book illustrator. His contemporaries included fellow illustrators Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott." (WalterCrane.com). .

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Book number: 04350

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Illustrated Books Books on Vellum Classical Literature Music

CRUIKSHANK, George; ZAEHNSDORF, binder

George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. Edited and Illustrated with Ten Subjects, Designed and Etched on Steel, by George Cruikshank

London: D. Bogue [&] George Routledge and Sons, 1854. Cinderella and Jack & The Bean-Stalk Illustrated by George Cruikshank Handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf CRUIKSHANK, George. George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. Edited and illustrated with ten subjects, designed and etched on steel, by George Cruikshank. London: David Bogue, [1854]. & George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. The History of Jack & the Bean-Stalk. Edited and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank. London: George Routledge and Sons, [ca 1870]. First edition of Cinderella and the Glass Slipper; Later edition of The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk. Small quarto (6 5/8 x 5 inches; 170 x 127 mm.). [1-5], 6-31, [1, blank]; [1-5], 6-32. Twelve etched plates with eighteen humorous scenes. Bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1900 in full dark blue calf. Covers with triple-gilt borders and circular corner-pieces, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, three red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt-ruled board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Original front and rear green printed paper covers. Armorial bookplate of the celebrated Cruikshank collector, the Earl of Mexborough on front paste-down. A fine example. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was a popular English caricaturist who later became notable for his book illustrations. Some of his illustrated works include Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist (1838) and the first English translation of the Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales. Displaying remarkable craftsmanship and skill as an etcher, Cruikshank became a household name due to his humorous portrayals of the royal family, the church, the government, the humors of the low people, and the foibles of the great. This notoriety led to a successful period of book illustration. "In the 1840s Cruikshank become an avid teetotaler and advocated for the Temperance Movement. This interest impacted his work and inspired him to write his own fireside tails detailing the perils of drinking. In 1854 Cruikshank produced a work called The Fairy Library in which he altered popular fairy tales to offer temperance lessons. Although the book did not sell well, the effort by the artist to provide lessons to his readers is not without precedent. Many tales have sought to teach amiable qualities and warn against unpleasant traits. Today his etchings continue to be placed among the work of the masters such as Ruskin." (Howard Tilton memorial Library). The library of the Earl of Mexborough was sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge in February 1917 "Including a long series of works illustrated by the Cruikshanks.

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Book number: 05508

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: ZAEHNSDORF, binder Illustrated Books European Literature Fine Bindings Caricatures

MOVABLE BOOK; DELCOURT, Pierre

Les Amis de Polichinelle

Paris: A. Capendu, Editeur, 1890. Les Amis de Polichinelle [MOVABLE BOOK]. Les Amis de Polichinelle par Pierre Delcourt. Paris: A. Capendu, Editeur, [ca. 1890]. Small quarto (8 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches; 216 x 162 mm.). [10] pp. Lithograph title-page and four full-page colored lever-operated moveable plates, each with leaf of text opposite. Publisher's black cloth over color pictorial boards. On the first movable plate Polichinelle is missing the bell that he was holding in his right hand (see cover illustration) and on the second movable plate Madam is missing the fan held in her right hand (as per the text). Otherwise an excellent example in near fine condition. This delightful movable has four wonderfully vivid colored movable plates portraying Monsieur & Madame Polichinelle, Jocrisse & Cassandre. "Polichinelle is the Punch of the old French puppet-shows, and his secrets are stage whispers told to all the audience" (Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable). Very scarce. OCLC locates just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: University of Virginia (VA,US). Pierre Delcourt also wrote Le Grand Guignol which was also published by A. Capendu around the same time. .

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Book number: 05545

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: DELCOURT, Pierre Books in French Color Printing Movable Books

[PAPER DOLL]

La Coquette

Paris: H. Rousseau, [1856]. An Elegant 19th Century Paper Doll With Multiple Gowns [PAPER DOLLS]. La Coquette. Paris: H. Rousseau, n.d. [1856]. Hand-colored, double-sided lithographed French paper doll with twelve hand-colored lithographed gowns with matching hats including a magnificent wedding ensemble. Lithography by H. Jannin. Housed in a remarkable facsimile of the original presentation box, with the original colored lithographed title laid-on. Complete with a later slotted wooden disc to display the doll in its finery. An item of great scarcity, an ephemeral work not meant to last but of lasting charm. We have been able to locate only one other recorded example, which came to auction at Theriaults Antique Doll Auctions, November 12, 2006, and sold for €1,900 ($2,590). .

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Book number: 02698

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Color-Plate Books Games Nineteenth-Century Literature Toys

[PAPER DOLLS]; Librarie Enfantine Illustrée

La Maison Des Poupées

Paris: A. Capendu Successeur, ca 1880. Exceptionally Rare 'Paper Doll' Book with 'cut-out' Dolls, Dresses and Various Accoutrements [PAPER DOLLS]. Librarie Enfantine Illustrée. La Maison des Poupées. Paris: Guérin-Muller & Cie. Editeurs, A. Capendu Successeur, ca. 1880. Square quarto (11 1/8 x 9 inches; 282 x 229 mm.). [2, title, verso blank], [4, text], four colored plates, all interleaved,depicting various rooms in the house, all with slots in which to place a selection of the four dolls with their fourteen dress wardrobe and eighteen objects, all in their three original wood textured envelopes. The four colored scenes all have slots within which to place the dolls, their dresses and various objects to complement the final picture. Publisher's dark blue cloth over pale blue boards, the front cover with a large pasted-on illustration in full color depicting a cottage with three dogs on the foreground, titled "La Maison des Poupées" and the publisher "G.M. et Cie A Capendu, successeur.." Explication [page 3] translation "First of all, start by cutting the leaves where the furniture is drawn and painted; Each item must be carefully cut with scissors. So, we glue the furniture with liquid glue in their respective places as follows.." The four scenes: 1. Salle à manger 2. Salon 3. Chambre à coucher 4. Cuisine The contents of the three envelopes: 1. 4 colored dolls 2. 14 colored dresses 3. 18 various accoutrements including a bouquet of flowers; a milk jug; a kettle; a tea service; a mixing bowl; a barrel; a mug, a looking glass; a cooked turkey; five bread rolls on a plate etc. etc. A remarkable survivor, the book and the three envelopes, one with the four dolls, one with the fourteen colored dresses and the third with the eighteen various objects all in very near fine condition. French movable book publisher Guérin-Müller pre-dated Capendu and was in business from 1850 to 1880. A. Capendu published many children's books including Cendrillon; Le Chat Botté; Le Petit Poucet and Contes de Fées. Exceptionally Rare with no copies located by OCLC - nine other titles in the series are listed; KVK locates just one example listed by Cooperative Library Network Berlin Brandenburg. Not in Cotsen. Children's Library; Gumuchian. Les Livres de d'Enfance or The Osborne Collection of Children's Books. .

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Book number: 05700

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Librarie Enfantine Illustrée Illustrated Books Books in French

DULAC, Edmund; HOUSMAN, Laurence; ARABIAN NIGHTS, (uniform title)

Princess Badoura

[London]: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. So Exquisite as to Make One Hold One's Breath" [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. [ARABIAN NIGHTS]. Princess Badoura. A Tale from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. 1913]. Edition De Luxe. Limited to seven hundred and fifty copies signed by Edmund Dulac (this being No. 252). Large quarto (11 3/16 x 8 7/8 inches; 287 x 226 mm.). [viii], 113, [1, printer's imprint], [2, blank] pp. Ten mounted color plates (including frontispiece), with tissue guards printed at top with the design from the title-page and descriptive letterpress in light olive ink. Title within fanciful line border and with design of two winged figures holding high an urn of flowers in light olive ink. Text within similar line border in light olive ink. Publisher's cream buckram pictorially stamped in pale green and gilt (with design from title-page embellished by two peacocks and additional lines) and lettered in gilt on front cover and decoratively stamped in pale green and gilt and lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine very slightly darkened, otherwise a near fine copy. With the original Leicester Galleries 1913 exhibition advertisement sheet laid in. Princess Badoura. A Tale from the Arabian Nights is a 1913 short story written by Laurence Housman and illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Based on a tale from "One Thousand and One Nights", this beautifully-illustrated story is highly recommend for lovers of folklore and collectors of classic fairy tales. Edmund Dulac (1882 - 1953) was a French-born British illustrator and stamp designer. He was born in Toulouse and studied law there, but later, realising that his true passion was illustration, studied art the École des Beaux-Arts. Having moved to London in the early 20th century, Dulac received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters in 1905. During the First World War, he illustrated relief books; and after the war, when children's books were in low demand, he began illustrating magazines. Other notable works containing Dulac's illustrations include: "The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales" (1910), "Stories from Hans Christian Andersen" (1911), and "The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe" (1912). Pook Press celebrates the great 'Golden Age of Illustration' in children's literature - a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage classic illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old. "Nothing more purely beautiful has ever come even from Dulac's fairy brush than the picture of Badoura in the arms of Camaralzaman against a background so exquisite as to make one hold one's breath" (from the review in The Outlook, November 15, 1913, Supplement XIII, quoted in Hughey). Hughey 31. .

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Book number: 05463

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: HOUSMAN, Laurence ARABIAN NIGHTS, (uniform title) Illustrated Books Fairy Tales Persian Literature Signed Limited Edition

DULAC, Edmund, Illustrator; SCHAUWERS, Franz, binder

Princesse Badourah, la

Paris: L'Édition D'Art H. Piazza, 1914. Limited to 500 Signed Copies This Copy in a Beautiful Contemporary Binding by Franz Schauwers With Decorations Not Found in the English Language Edition DULAC, Edmund. La Princesse Badourah. Conte des Mille et une Nuits. Illustré par Edmond Dulac. Paris: L'Édition D'Art H. Piazza, n.d. [1914]. First edition in French, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the artist, this being copy no. 347. Quarto (11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in; 294 x 221 mm). Ten mounted color plates within decorative borders. Bound ca. 1914 by Franz [Schauwers] (stamp-signed) in three-quarter purple crushed levant morocco with gilt rules over marbled paper boards. Smooth spine lettered and richly decorated in gilt with nine red morocco floral onlays. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Matching marbled endpapers. Original wrappers preserved. A very fine copy in a very attractive binding. With decorations not found in the English language editions, including nine designs of a different small tree in an urn on pages preceding each chapter; decorated initials at start of each chapter; seven tailpieces; two surrounds for for letterpress on limitation and colophon. Hughey 31c. .

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Book number: 02891

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: SCHAUWERS, Franz, binder Illustrated Books Fine Bindings Books in French Fairy Tales

DULAC, Edmund, illustrator; KHAYYAM, Omar; FITZGERALD, Edward

Quartine, le

Bergamo: Istituto Italiano D'Arti Grafiche, 1913. A Scarce Italian Edition [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. KHAYYÁM, Omar. Le Quartine. Riduzione Ritmica di Diego Angeli dalla Traduzione in Inglese di Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrazioni di Edmondo Dulac. Bergamo: Istituto Italiano D'Arti Grafiche, n.d. [c. 1913]. First reprint of trade edition in Italian of Dulac's Rubaiyat. Quarto (10 7/8 x 8 1/4 in; 277 x 208 mm). Unpaginated. Seventeen color plates tipped-in to cream vellum-like paper, framed with gilt over light green design, with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's original dark green cloth with elaborate decorative peacock frame in gilt, a variant not noted by Hughey who records only a red binding to this issue. Neat ink ownership note to half-title. A fine copy. "A reprint edition (#21jj) was exactly like #21ii except that only 17 plates were included and it was issued in a dark red cloth binding." "In point of excellence of art, popularity, distinction and profit the crowning achievement.. was the publication of the Fitzgerald version of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam illustrated by Edmund Dulac. The book was a joy and treasure. Its public acceptance was immediate and great' (George H. Doran, American publisher). Hughey 21jj. .

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Book number: 02221

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: KHAYYAM, Omar FITZGERALD, Edward Illustrated Books Books in Italian Fantasy Literature Persian Literature

DULAC, Edmund, illustrator; HOUSMAN, Laurence; ARABIAN NIGHTS

Stories from the Arabian Nights

Nottingham: Hodder and Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd., 1923. Boots 'Cheap' Trade Edition [1923] Containing Twenty Mounted Color Plates from Three of Dulac's Best Books A Fine Copy in the Original Dust Jacket [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. HOUSMAN, Laurence. Stories From the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Houseman. With Drawing by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [ca. 1923]. Cheaper trade edition. Quarto (9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in; 247 x 191 mm). 319, [1] pp. Twenty color plates, including frontispiece mounted on cream paper with captions printed below. Publisher's brandy colored cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt and black with four thin black lines forming border at outer edge of front cover, spine lettered in gilt with Boots symbol in gilt at bottom, plain cream end-papers. Neat ink inscription on front free end-paper. In the original tan dust jacket with an illustration from the book pasted onto the front panel. A very fine copy in a fine dust jacket. An interesting early 'compilation' edition containing twenty Dulac color plates including fourteen from The Arabian Nights, two from Princess Badoura, and four from Sindbad the Sailor. Hughey 16y. .

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Book number: 03575

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: HOUSMAN, Laurence ARABIAN NIGHTS Illustrated Books Persian Literature