St john judith ed (4 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Very good. Edition of 500 copies. Originally printed for S. Hood, London, 1813. 62 p. 17 cm. B&w and colour illustrations. Green card covers with cream label. Spine faded and a little discolouration to covers. Faint mark on text block edge.

1st edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 561 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes indexes. Subjects: Children's literature; Bibliography; Catalogues; Children's Books; Fairy Tales; Illustrated books. 1 Kg. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A two-volume bibliographical catalogue of the celebrated Osborne Collection, a richly illustrated reference work detailing the history of early children"s books. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.First editions.Illustrated to the first volume with eleven colour plates together with numerous monochrome plates and in-text illustrations. The second volume with a colour frontispiece and numerous monochrome facsimiles of title pages and illustrations from rare children"s books. Collated, complete.A two-volume bibliographical catalogue of the renowned Osborne Collection of Early Children"s Books, one of the most important institutional collections in the field of juvenile literature. A detailed descriptive bibliography covering more than three centuries of English-language children"s literature, with publication histories, collations, and notes on notable editions, printers, and illustrators. Prepared by Judith St. John, a Canadian scholar and librarian, with an introduction from Edgar Osborne, a distinguished librarian, an able administrator, scholar and collector, who founded this collection. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, more so to joints. Slight fading and discolouration to spines. The odd scratch to spines. Slight scratch to the front board of volume two with a small closed tear to the cloth at the joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good. None Stated (illustrator). book.…

Toronto Public Library: Toronto 1958. Illus, 10 x 6.5", cloth, 561 w/index, minor spotting & wear. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY ST. JOHN. Vol. 2 was issued in 1975.