London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, no date (circa 1910), large octavo, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. 72 pp. Raphael Tuck & Sons, Illustrated by T. Noyes Lewis, Hilda Cowham, M. F. Taylor, Mabel Lucie Attwell, and others. An anthology of children's stories, No. 808 in Father Tuck's Golden Gift"..... More
Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson, no date (circa 1890), large octavo, pictorial boards. 94 pp. Peter G. Thomson, With twenty illustrations by the Dalziel Brothers. A good portion of the paper covering the spine is gone, corners scuffed and rounded. More
Syracuse: C. W. Bardeen, 1887, First Printing of this edition. octavo, red cloth over bevelled boards. (xxxii), 194, (vi) pp. index. C. W. Bardeen, First published in 1658. "This work is, indeed, the first children's picture book." Encyclopedia Britannica, 9th edn, vi, 182. Front inner hinge cracked but holding, bookplate..... More
The National Book League, 1971, First Edition. small octavo, pictorial wrappers. (ii), 65 pp. The National Book League, A catalogue of the collection. With 16 full page illustrations in black and white. A very fine, clean copy. More
Ephemera Society of America, (1994), First Edition. oblong quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 224pp. Ephemera Society of America, "Rewards of Merit are significant documents that illustrate attitudes toward religion, education, and achievement: values with which young Americans were inculcated...This book also demonstrates how evolving methods of the American printing arts..... More
New York: Abradale Press and Abrams, (1987), Reprint of the 1983 first edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. 272 pp. Abradale Press and Abrams, Thirteen of the great illustrators from Lear and Tenniel, Caldecott, Greenaway, Nielson, to Pyle, Wyeth and Denslow are represented in a discussion that traces the development..... More
(New Castle): Oak Knoll, 1999, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. vi, 117pp. Oak Knoll, From the dust jacket: "The writing career of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll') began and ended with his contributions to periodicals. Between 1843...until his death in 1898, he published over 300 items in magazines..... More
London: Bodley Head, (1994), First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. (xiv), 226pp. Bodley Head, Well illustrated, with bibliography. Written by an established authority on the history of children's literature, this is the first historical study to consider American children's books as a separate genre. This is an expertly researched..... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1999), First Edition. oblong octavo, wrappers. (176)pp. Chronicle Books, As printing technology made important advances and modern marketing techiques developed in the 1800s, covers and jackets became increasingly decorative and integral to the total book concept. Charting the evolution of graphic styles during these crucial decades..... More
Boston: The Horn Book, (1972), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. x, 340pp. The Horn Book, First American Edition which was taken from the revised British edition. For this revised edition the author has added material dealing with children's books in other countries than England so that the section " Children's..... More
(London): The British Library, (1995), Reprint. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 80pp. The British Library, The period from the late 18th century to the 1920s was a 'golden age' for illustrated children's books. The author traces their development, from primitive Chap-book to sumptuously printed color gift book. Among the famous artists included..... More
London: Bloomsbury, (1988), Second edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. 104pp. Bloomsbury, The text represents a comprehensive selection of Caldecott's work, followed by a checklist of his published illustrations and his paintings in oit. With over 100 illustrations, 9 in color. Very fine in a very fine jacket which is..... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1997), First Edition. octavo, boards. 121 pp. Chronicle Books, The chapters of this book are broken into genre: Funnies, Space, Adventure, Movies, Crime, Wild West, and Aviation. Extensively illustrated in color. Very fine copy. More