Campe J.H.

Le nouveau Robinson, pour servir a l'amusement et a l'instruction des enfants.

London & Versailles & Paris, 1785. 2 volumes, 12°. 24+405+391 pag. Half leather. Backs a bit damaged. Translated from German. Ilustrated with 30 engravings (of which two are frontispices).

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Book number: 24888

Catalogue: Children's Books Education Illustrated

Crane, Walter

The Baby's Opera, A Book of old Rhymes with new Dresses. Walter Crane; Engraved & Printed in colours by Edmund Evans; the Music by the earliest Masters. London/New York, Frederick Warne & Co. , n. d. [ca. 1890].

Hardcover with brown cloth spine and orange-red laminated boards. The book is in good condition (the edges of the front cover and spine are a little worn). Size: 18,5 x 18,5 cm, 56 pp. 11 full-page coloured illustrations by Walter Crane (engraved on wood by Edmund Evans) and margin decorations, in different styles and color schemes, on every page. The front cover shows a pictorial scene of the song Hey did-le did-le!, while the back shows a crane (bird) holding the musical scores of the same song. The music for the Baby's Opera was collected and arranged by Lucy Crane, Walter's sister. The first edition of the Opera was published in 1877 by George Routledge & Sons.l Walter Crane (1845-195) was one of the great innovative British book illustrators, along with Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott. In the early years he got his main inspiration from illuminated medieval manuscripts, Japanese prints and the pre-Raphaeli

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Book number: 43888

Catalogue: Children's Books Illustrated

Spreekmeester, Isidore Leonard [pseudo. Vadertjes Brombeer]

Reinaard de Vos speelt voor huisbaas, Een verhaal van Vadertje Brombeer. Amsterdam, De Bezige Bij, 1946.

Illustrated cardboard front and back with an metal spiral binding. The pages are slightly browned and the front board shows light foxing. 27,5 x 19 cm, unpaged [30 pp.]. With full-page colour plates and smaller illustrations in black throughout the text. l This witty book tells the story of a witch called Amalia, who leaves home to take the road to a witch convention. While she is away the cunning fox Reinaard tries to rent out her place, which results in a lot of confusion and hilarity. The story is beaut

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Book number: 41758

Catalogue: Children's Books Illustrated