bartlett mrs gray (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good +. Bartlett, Mrs. N. Gray (illustrator). 1st Edition. (Photography) Mother Goose of '93; Photographic Illustrations by Mrs. N. Gray Bartlett. Boston, Mass.: Joseph Knight Company, (1893). FIRST EDITION. Oblong 4to - 9-1/2" x 11-1/2". Cream cloth backed, white paper with a blue and gold floral pattern covered boards; the cream cloth with floral decoration and titles stamped in silver for what is a beautiful copy of the book. Original publisher's cream paper dust jacket with titles and decoration printed in gray to front panel, matching the titles and decoration stamped to the cloth on the front cover; four closed edge tears measuring 1-1/8", 1-1/4", 1-5/8" and 4"; chips to the head and tail of spine and to the fold corners; additional short closed edge tears and overall minor darkening and spotting. Original publisher's two part cardboard box with paste label to box top with titles printed in black; all sides broken at the corners; two sides missing from the top. Plain endpapers. [10] leaves. The illustrated title page and all text and illustrations are printed on thin Japanese paper tipped on to heavier bound sheets; the illustrations are photogravures from photographs of children re-enacting Mother Goose rhymes; offsetting to the mounting page versos; minor spotting to a few leaves. "This is possibly the most exquisite use of tissue photogravure in the United States . The luminosity of these plates is superb. The photographs by Mrs. Bartlett are wonderfully charming . Her abilities as a photographer of children are perfectly demonstrated in these re-enactments of Mother Goose rhymes." -- Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction catalog, p. 117. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. The condition of the dust jacket is GOOD +. The condition of the box is FAIR.