alphabet quadrupeds partly selected (4 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Fair. London: Joseph Cundall, 1844. 1st edition. 16mo hardcover. Red embossed cloth with marbled edges, gilt spine, blue endpapers. Unpaginated. Illustrations. Poor book. The spine cloth and front board are detached, the cover outherwise only a bit darkened, edgeworn with bumped and frayed corners. A small label to the front pastedown and nickel-sized puncture to the FEP. Dampstained along the gutter. The signatures are bit loose and the illustration of the Ichneumon has detached and is laid in. (Juvenile Nonfiction, Animals, Mammals, Alphabet Book) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. approx. 90 pages. 5 x 6 3/4 in. One illustration for each letter in brown and light brown ink, each illustration protected by an extra sheet. Red cloth binding, gilt lettering on cover, edges of text block marbled. Condition of the book is GOOD: wear to covers, corners highly worn, dent in rear cover, cloth spine missing, soiling to covers, small tear to title page, light foxing on a few pages, binding fine- one blank page loose.

Berghem, Durer, Everdingen, Hondius, A. Karl du Jardin, Le Ducq, Paul Potter, Fraser Redgrave, Rembrandt, Stoop, Tempesta, Teniers, Vandervelde (illustrator). First Edition. First edition, uncommon. An attractive illustrated alphabet, with a charming image of a Kangaroo. Among the other plates are etchings after Rembrandt and Albrecht Durer. [Percy Muir, English Children's Books, p. 180.] Handsome chapter initials decorate the accompanying text which is enchantingly written. âFox. Look at this cunning, cruel fellow, making ready to spring among the chickens. But he will be punished tomorrow I think, for I heard uncle Tom order his red coat to be ready for hunting.' The Kangaroo entry remains the highlight, âThe Kangaroo is brought from New Holland: we have some in England in the Zoological Gardens. Their Nature is not at all savage.' Henry Cole, who published this and other children's books under the pseudonym F.S. (Felix Summerly), was a notable figure of nineteenth-century England. A distinguished civil servant and associate of John Stuart Mill, he was eventually knighted and is credited with producing the first commercial Christmas card. The Home Treasury series, to which the Alphabet belongs, was edited by Cole and aimed to improve upon the standard of children's books. Small square octavo, bound in the original blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt, frontispiece and 24 sepia plates, all edges gilt, a little sunned especially to spine, near fine.