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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. .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) Professional sellerBook no.: 04374
USD 2.500,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 2166.5 | £UK 1901.5 | JP¥ 385501]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: ROSTAING, Jules Color-Plate Books Books in French Natural History
Mother Goose in Prose
Chicago: Way and Williams, 1897. L. Frank Baum’s First Juvenile and the First Book Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish BAUM, L. Frank. [PARRISH, Maxfield, illustrator]. Mother Goose in Prose. Chicago: Way and Williams, [1897]. First edition, second issue (with two blank leaves after the printer's imprint at end). Large quarto (11 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches: 282 x 232 mm.). 265, [3] pp. Fourteen half-tone plates (including frontispiece) by Maxfield Parrish. Some occasional and very light mainly marginal spotting. Plate facing p. 68 with tiny (1/8 inch) marginal tear; plate facing p. 102 with a clean crease and three small marginal tears (1/4 inch, 1/4 inch & 1 1/8 inch) not affecting plate margin. Original light gray cloth, covers pictorially stamped in color, spine decoratively lettered in gilt. Corners a little bumped, spine slightly toned, gilt lettering a little dull. Aside from the above minor faults, this is an excellent and all original example - with no restoration to the binding, of L. Frank Baum’s first published juvenile and the first book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Mother Goose in Prose is a collection of twenty-two children's stories inspired by classic Mother Goose nursery rhymes. It was the first children's book written by L. Frank Baum and also marked the debut of Maxfield Parrish as an illustrator. Originally published in 1897 by Way and Williams of Chicago, the book was later reissued in 1901 by the George M. Hill Company. Baum introduces the collection with a preface tracing the history of Mother Goose. Each story begins with the original nursery rhyme, followed by an expanded narrative that provides a broader literary context. The stories included are: Sing a Song o' Sixpence The Story of Little Boy Blue The Cat and the Fiddle Black Sheep Old King Cole Mistress Mary The Wond'rous Wise Man What Jack Horner Did The Man in the Moon The Jolly Miller The Little Man and His Little Gun Hickory, Dickory, Dock Little Bo-Peep The Story of Tommy Tucker Pussy-cat Mew How the Beggars Came to Town Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son Humpty Dumpty The Woman Who Lived in a Shoe Little Miss Muffet Three Wise Men of Gotham Little Bun Rabbit The final story features a girl named Dorothy who can communicate with animals—a concept that foreshadows Baum’s later Oz series. When republishing this tale in Juvenile Speaker (1910) and The Snuggle Tales (1916–17), Baum changed her name to Doris to avoid confusion with Dorothy Gale. Despite its elegant production, Mother Goose in Prose was considered expensive for a children's book and achieved only moderate commercial success. Its publisher, Way and Williams, went bankrupt the following year. In response, Baum shifted his approach, writing original verses for Father Goose: His Book in 1899. In 1990, The Jim Henson Company adapted the book into a television series titled Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories. Baughman 44. The Baum Bugle, Spring 1966, p. 14. .
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USD 1.800,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 1560 | £UK 1369 | JP¥ 277561]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: PARRISH, Maxfield, illustrator Illustrated Books
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). .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) Professional sellerBook no.: 03972
USD 4.850,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 4202.75 | £UK 3688.75 | JP¥ 747873]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: Color-Plate Books Books in French Costume
Illustrations of the Five Senses
London: Grant & Griffith, 1852. The Five Senses as Depicted by "Phiz" BROWNE, Hablot K. Illustrations of the Five Senses. By H.K. Browne. "Phiz". London: Grant & Griffith, 1852. First edition. Oblong quarto (9 5/8 x 13 1/2 inches; 245 x 343 mm.). Five hand colored etched plates, all interleaved. First plate with tiny piece (1/24 x 3/8 inch) missing from lower blank corner and fifth plate with tiny piece (1/2 x 3/8 inch) missing from lower blank corner. Publisher's buff printed wrappers with "Price 5s. Plain" and "7. 6d. Colored", expertly rebacked. Chemised in a brown cloth wrapper housed in a quarter tan morocco over blue cloth clamshell case, smooth spine with tan and black morocco labels lettered in gilt. A near fine example. The plates depict comical urchins demonstrating the five senses, including the rare "Seeing" plate which depicts two young boys peering into a box-shaped peep-show at a fairground. Note: Our copy has "Price 5s. Plain" and "7. 6d. Colored". "While illustrations to Dickens are the principal work by 'Phiz', there also exists a considerable number of his coloured illustrations for books- "Illustrations of the Five Senses in 1852 was issued at 3s. 6d. plain, 5s. 6d. coloured, the five plates being etchings with a machine-ruled ground." (Hardie, p. 219). Renowned for his illustrations for novels by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne [pseud. Phiz] (1815–1882) "remained prodigiously productive throughout the 1840s and 1850s, his greatest decades..His output was enormous - about 3660 images over his lifetime - and Phiz became a household familiar..From 1859 to 1867 he issued around 440 more images, but changes in the visual tastes of readers, in reproductive techniques for book illustration, and in the kind of books publishers issued (more cheap, un-illustrated fiction) all worked against Browne's talent..He also indulged his love for drawing horses in sporting journals such as the New Sporting Magazine, the Great Gun, and the Sporting Times.. Browne's brilliance as an illustrator did not satisfy him. He never shed the idea that he was first and foremost a fine artist" (Oxford Online DNB). The plates: 1. Tasting. "Crummy - rather - Oh my!" 2. Seeing. "Now then Gents, open yr eyes -- blow yr precious noses, and don't breathe on the glasses! 3. Feeling. "A nice young man: with expectations." 4. Smelling. "A Pair of Snuffers." 5. Hearing. "The Crow doth sing as sweetly as the Lark, when neither is attended:" Martin Hardie, p. 219; Not in Bobins or Tooley. .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) Professional sellerBook no.: 06051
USD 3.500,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 3033 | £UK 2662 | JP¥ 539702]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: PHIZ Color-Plate Books Caricatures English Caricature
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. .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) Professional sellerBook no.: 04350
USD 3.500,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 3033 | £UK 2662 | JP¥ 539702]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: Illustrated Books Books on Vellum Classical Literature Music
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. .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) Professional sellerBook no.: 05545
USD 1.750,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 1516.5 | £UK 1331 | JP¥ 269851]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: DELCOURT, Pierre Books in French Color Printing Movable Books
Arabian Nights, the. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. First Trade Edition Of Detmold's Rarest Book [DETMOLD, Edward J. illustrator]. The Arabian Nights. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. Illustrated by E.J. Detmold. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. 1924]. First trade edition. Quarto (10 15/16 x 8 1/2 inches; 278 x 216 mm.). viii, 240 pp. Twelve tipped-in color plates with descriptive tissue-guards. Publisher's cream cloth spine and front cover pictorially stamped in gilt. A near fine copy, with the gilt bright and fresh, of Detmold's rarest book. Detmold illustrated “a number of books of fantasy drawing- which show a vivid imagination, fine drawing and warm coloring” (Houfe, 115) “The Detmold twins were a unique phenomenon in British art, recognized by their contemporaries as a single creative personality ‘divided between two bodies’. Their remarkable etchings and watercolours of plants and animals, minutely detailed in the Japanese manner, are all prized collector’s items. Charles Frederick and Edward Barton Detmold were born in Putney, south London, on 21 November 1883. Their middle names were later replaced by ‘Maurice’ and ‘Julius’, but the two boys were generally called Maurice and Edward-At the age of 5 the twins developed a dual passion for drawing and observing animals, and made regular sketching expeditions to Regent’s Park Zoo and the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, where they drew detailed sketches of shells, crayfish, monkey skulls, and hundreds of other animal subjects. Their first book, Pictures from Birdland, comprising 24 colour plates, was published by J.M. Dent for the Christmas market in 1899. The Detmolds’ most celebrated joint achievement, and among the finest book illustrations ever produced, was the set of 16 watercolours depicting scenes from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. Macmillan first issued these in November 1903-Maurice suddenly committed suicide in April 1908. "Edward was devastated-[but] was determined to carry on with all the various ideas and projects they had originally planned in unison. He joined the ranks of Hodder & Stoughton’s immortal band of gift book illustrators-with the superb 1909 edition of Aesop’s Fables-For George Allen, Detmold illustrated Lemonnier’s Birds and Beasts (1911), and two de luxe volumes by the Nobel prizewinner Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee (1911) and Hours of Gladness (1912). He returned to Hodder & Stoughton with another popular animal series for children: The Book of Baby Birds (1912), The Book of Baby Pets (1913), The Book of Baby Dogs (1914), and Our Little Neighbours (1921). His final two opulent gift books for Hodder & Stoughton were Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921), with 12 remarkable colour studies of the beautiful and bizarre denizens of the insect world a seen through Detmold’s ‘microscope’ eye; and The Arabian Nights (1924), a very successful change of direction into the realms of exotic fantasy. On the strength of The Arabian Nights, Detmold could have become one of the greatest illustrators of fantasy and fairy stories-During the 1920s Detmold continued to draw, paint, and hold exhibitions of etchings and drypoints, but it was not long before he retired completely from public life-On 1 July 1957 he committed suicide, nearly half a century after the death of his twin brother” (Richard Dalby, The Golden Age of Children’s Book Illustration, pp. 96-98). .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) Professional sellerBook no.: 06291
USD 1.500,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 1300 | £UK 1141 | JP¥ 231301]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: Illustrated Books Persian Literature
Fabre’S Book of Insects
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1921. Edward J. Detmold’s “Fabre’s Book of Insects” [DETMOLD, Edward J. illustrator]. Fabre’s Book of Insects. Retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' Translation of Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques” by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. Illustrated by E.J. Detmold. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. 1921]. First trade edition. Large quarto (10 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 275 x 215 mm.). vii, [1, blank], 184 pp. Twelve mounted color plates (including frontispiece), with descriptive tissue guards. Publisher's white cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Back cover pictorially stamped in blind. Ink name partially erased from front free end-paper, front inner hinge slightly cracked, some light foxing, minimal darkening to spine. Still a very good example. “The Detmold twins were a unique phenomenon in British art, recognized by their contemporaries as a single creative personality ‘divided between two bodies’. Their remarkable etchings and watercolours of plants and animals, minutely detailed in the Japanese manner, are all prized collector’s items. Charles Frederick and Edward Barton Detmold were born in Putney, south London, on 21 November 1883. Their middle names were later replaced by ‘Maurice’ and ‘Julius’, but the two boys were generally called Maurice and Edward-At the age of 5 the twins developed a dual passion for drawing and observing animals, and made regular sketching expeditions to Regent’s Park Zoo and the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, where they drew detailed sketches of shells, crayfish, monkey skulls, and hundreds of other animal subjects. Their first book, Pictures from Birdland, comprising 24 colour plates, was published by J.M. Dent for the Christmas market in 1899. The Detmolds’ most celebrated joint achievement, and among the finest book illustrations ever produced, was the set of 16 watercolours depicting scenes from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. Macmillan first issued these in November 1903-Maurice suddenly committed suicide in April 1908. Edward was devastated-[but] was determined to carry on with all the various ideas and projects they had originally planned in unison. He joined the ranks of Hodder & Stoughton’s immortal band of gift book illustrators-with the superb 1909 edition of Aesop’s Fables-For George Allen, Detmold illustrated Lemonnier’s Birds and Beasts (1911), and two de luxe volumes by the Nobel prizewinner Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee (1911) and Hours of Gladness (1912). He returned to Hodder & Stoughton with another popular animal series for children: The Book of Baby Birds (1912), The Book of Baby Pets (1913), The Book of Baby Dogs (1914), and Our Little Neighbours (1921). His final two opulent gift books for Hodder & Stoughton were Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921), with 12 remarkable colour studies of the beautiful and bizarre denizens of the insect world a seen through Detmold’s ‘microscope’ eye; and The Arabian Nights (1924), a very successful change of direction into the realms of exotic fantasy. On the strength of The Arabian Nights, Detmold could have become one of the greatest illustrators of fantasy and fairy stories-During the 1920s Detmold continued to draw, paint, and hold exhibitions of etchings and drypoints, but it was not long before he retired completely from public life-On 1 July 1957 he committed suicide, nearly half a century after the death of his twin brother” (Richard Dalby, The Golden Age of Children’s Book Illustration, pp. 96-98). .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) Professional sellerBook no.: 06290
USD 450,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 390 | £UK 342.25 | JP¥ 69390]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: FABRE, Jean Henri STAWELL, Rodolph, Mrs. TEIXEIRA de MATTOS, Alexander Children's Books Entomology Illustrated Books Illustrated Books Natural History
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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). .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) Professional sellerBook no.: 02698
USD 4.500,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 3899.5 | £UK 3422.5 | JP¥ 693902]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: Color-Plate Books Costume Games Nineteenth-Century Literature
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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. .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) Professional sellerBook no.: 05700
USD 3.000,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 2599.75 | £UK 2281.75 | JP¥ 462602]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: Librarie Enfantine Illustrée Illustrated Books Books in French
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. .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) Professional sellerBook no.: 02891
USD 1.500,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 1300 | £UK 1141 | JP¥ 231301]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: SCHAUWERS, Franz, binder Illustrated Books Fine Bindings Books in French Fairy Tales
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. .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) Professional sellerBook no.: 02221
USD 450,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 390 | £UK 342.25 | JP¥ 69390]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: KHAYYAM, Omar FITZGERALD, Edward Illustrated Books Books in Italian Fantasy Literature Persian Literature
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. .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) Professional sellerBook no.: 03575
USD 350,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 303.5 | £UK 266.25 | JP¥ 53970]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: HOUSMAN, Laurence ARABIAN NIGHTS Illustrated Books Persian Literature
Calendar for 1884 by Kate Greenaway
London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1884. Calendar For 1884 GREENAWAY, Kate. Calendar For 1884 By Kate Greenaway. London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, [1884]. Image size: 6 9/16 inches x 9 3/16 inches; 168 x 234 mm. Framed size: 13 1/8 inches x 15 1/8 inches; 332 mm x 390 mm Matted, framed and glazed. The calendar for 1884, showing all the months of the year with colored and floral decorations and containing four groups of costumed figures in color. In the center is a banner "Calendar For 1884 By Kate Greenaway". To the left of the banner are two young ladies, one wearing a bonnet and the other carrying a basket of flowers. Above the banner are three little children - two girls and one boy - the two girls are holding hands and the middle child has her arm around the little boy. To the right of the banner are two young ladies, one holding a baby and the other with a small child leaning into her, dressed to match her mother. Below the banner are three women wearing bonnets. The woman on the left has a fur muff and is holding an umbrella, the woman in the middle is holding onto the women either side of her and the woman on the right is elderly with a walking stick. .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) Professional sellerBook no.: 05237
USD 950,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 823.25 | £UK 722.75 | JP¥ 146491]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: Color Printing
Calendar of the Seasons 1881
London & Belfast: Marcus Ward & Co. 1881. Calendar of The Seasons GREENAWAY, Kate. Calendar of the Seasons 1881. Four cards depicting the four seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Each card measuring 4 1/8 inches x 2 11/16 inches; 105 mm x 68 mm. Frame size: 12 7/8 inches x 15 1/4 inches; 328 mm x 385 mm. Matted, framed and glazed. Calendar of the seasons, showing the seasons of the year, each card with colored and floral borders. The card for Spring with the title: "Calendar of the Seasons/1881" and depicting three young girls in winter attire. The card for Summer with a young girl standing next to a rose bush, dressed in a bonnet and carrying a basket of flowers. The card for Autumn with a young girl holding a parasol, wearing a large frilly bonnet. The card for Winter showing three young girls with their backs to us, dressed in winter clothes. .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) Professional sellerBook no.: 05238
USD 950,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 823.25 | £UK 722.75 | JP¥ 146491]
Catalogue: Children's Books
Keywords: Color Printing