Childrens & Illustrated

Paris: Devambez, editeur. First edition. n.d. (ca. 1918). Huge folio (13 x 17 inches) suite of ten superbly colored full-page illustrations loose, as issued, and a full-color illustrated title-page by noted French illustrator Guy Arnoux. Original color pictorial folding covers with ribbon ties. Limited to 475 numbered copies (#218), printed..... (Item #27)

London: George Cruikshank, Sold by J. Robins and Co., 1826. First edition, first issue. Oblong folio. Original printed boards with cover illustration, thin calf spine. PRESENTATION COPY: “W. Blackwood Esq. with the Complm. Geo. Cruikshank” signed boldly along the top of the front cover (across 15 inches). 16pp, six full-page..... (Item #486)

Leipzig: Alfred Hahns, Gebruder Dietrich, n.d. (ca. 1930). Oblong 8vo. Color pictorial paper-covered boards, cloth spine. Printed on thick cardboard sheets. Full-page color illustrations throughout by ERIKA FISCHER. Some chipping to boards, overall very good. Delightful illustrations. (Item #292)

Paris: de l'imprmerie de P. Geuffier, 1806. Elephant folio. Early half calf, paper-covered boards. Four-page introduction and 73 plates illustrating various architectural structures and themes. One of the classic architectural books of the period. Spine chipped with pieces missing, text very good with little signs of wear. Printed on elegant..... (Item #482)

Mainz: Joseph Scholz, n.d. (ca. 1925). First edition. Quarto. Cloth backed color pictorial paper-covered boards. Superb full and half-page color illustrations throughout by Hans Schroeder. 16pp. Very good. (Item #97)

Leipzig and Munchen: Rotapfel Verlag, n.d. ca. 1925. First edition. Huge folio folders, cloth backed, pictorial cover. Seven very large tipped-in plates by Ernst Kreidolf. Corners, bumped, occasional soiling, but a nice clean copy of a book seldom found in presentable condition. (Item #77)

Cologne: H. Schaffstein, n.d. (ca. 1910). First edition. Quarto. Color illustrated paper-covered boards, illustrated endpapers, 15 color lithographs by Ernst Kreidolf. Occasional soiling to covers, first page (i.e. endsheet) evenly creased, some thumbing, spine well chipped, a scarce Kreidolf title. (Item #86)

Wien: Die Gesellschaft fur Vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1898. First edition. Elephant folio size (19 x 14 inches). Superb color cover illustration of three men in armor in highlighted silver and red-brown. With original 1897 announcement bound-in at front reproducing cover image. Illustrated throughout with full-page, large and small drawings, decorative borders..... (Item #395)

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1881. First printing. 4to. Cloth backed, paper-covered boards with pictorial covers. Eight delightful full-page color plates, eight in light blue, numerous others, all by Pyle in distinctive early style reminiscent of Walter Crane toybooks. Among Pyle’s earliest color illustrations, these portray the style that..... (Item #40)

New York: Duffield & Co., 1915. First edition. 12 mo. Illustrated paper-covered boards with color cover insert, cloth spine. With the twelve original illustrated color stamps, each pasted in to their appropriate positions. Head and tailpieces throughout by Smith. With the original publisher-issued stamp folder (wax paper) still affixed to..... (Item #158)

Offered here is a stunning early printed textile (ca. 1820) depicting children at play, fiddler with dancing dog, rural scenes, vignettes of girls and dolls. Superb red-brown borders and intricate stylized repeating design around perimeter. Textile measures 14 x 16 inches and is remarkably preserved with minimal signs of wear..... (Item #79)

Koln: H. & F. Schaffstein, [1906]. First edition. Oblong quarto. Original color pictorial paper-covered boards. Colored title and 16 stunning pochoir-colored full-page plates by Hans von Volkmann. The illustrations represent “the most extensive use of pochoir coloring in German childrens’ books,” Begleiter der Kindheit) . The originals transferred to Leipzig..... (Item #572)

Bern: A. Francke, ca 1910. Early editiion. Oblong 4to. Original color pictorial paper-covered boards. First Edition with figures walking from right to left. Fifteen superb color illustrations by LISA WENGER on thick paper. Classic and innovative book for children depicting ‘hinged creatures” in sundry peril. Corners bumped, a very good..... (Item #343)