Publisher dean (4 Ergebnisse)

Board book. Zustand: Brand New. 32 pages. 7.00x5.60x0.80 inches. In Stock. Dean Gray (illustrator).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

[Vinyl Records] FIRST EDITION, a reprint thus. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.960. Publisher's black and yellow typographic soft covers priced at £12.95. Internally clean. Covers and edges well-thumbed and creased. Good. The very first Rare Record Price Guide.

Six 'dissolving views' each consisting of two hand-coloured wood engravings, cut horizontally into four, enclosed within a decorative wood engraved border, original card tabs which, when pulled, reveal the image beneath. Each view with a printed caption & four lines of verse; tear with sl. loss to upper corner of leading f.e.p. & initial blank, views sl. spotted, some marking to upper corners, a few small sl. tears, but overall a lovely unrestored copy as issued. Original colour printed purple boards, pictorial onlay within printed border, black cloth spine. Gift inscription on verso of leading f.e.p.: 'From J. Benson to Mary Done, with best wishes for her happiness and prosperity, May 6th 1861'. v.g. Copac locates copies at the BL, Oxford, and TCD only. A rare copy in this condition, with the original tabs and in good workng order. Dean & Son in their advertisement described the work as a 'A New Style of Movable Book. Printed on stout paper, and so constructed as to present a series of appropriate changeable Illustrations, dissolving into Scenes of a different and opposite character, upon a novel and entertaining planthe pictures being colouredsuch as "A Picture of War changing into a Scene representing Peace." The whole rendered interesting by a description of the several subjects. Price 2s., paper boards.' The six views are: Land. Sea. (showing a windmill in one image a ship in the other); War. Peace. (a soldier and a shepherd); Day. Night. (a ruined abbey by day and night); Summer. Winter. (A temple in summer and a mountain in winter); Fire. Water. (a volcano and waterfall). No authorship for the text is indicated but the illustrations are signed 'Calvert, Sc.',the most likely candidate being William Calvert, a London wood engraver who flourished between 1850 and 1861 and worked at 10 East Harding Street about a five-minute walk from Dean & Son's premises.…