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)..... (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..... (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)

Original Elizabeth Shippen Green Watercolor entitled ìClematis XII.î Signed lower right: "ESGE To HC With Love, 1909." This is a full-size watercolor painted and given by Green to her friend and gardener, Henrietta Cozens of Cogslea (residence of J.W. Smith, E.S. Green, Violet Oakley and Cozens in early 1900ís). As..... (Item #437)

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)

kaulbach, german. Suttgart and Tobingen: J.B. Gotta, 1846. First edition. Thick folio. Original brown leather binding with lavish gold illustrated cover and spine, designs and details. 36 superb engravings by Wilhelm Von Kaulbach. 257pp. Slight wear to edges and corners, occasional foxing and light discoloration otherwise a very good copy..... (Item #7)

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 hard to find 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)

Darmstadt: H. Hohmann Verlag, n.d. (ca 1920). First edition. Oblong quarto. Thick card paper covered boards with designs, color illustrated half-title and seven superb interpretive illustrations in color by Pfeiffer. A very scarce Jugendstil title, not found on the internet in our latest search. About fine, with only very minor..... (Item #90)

Munchen: Ulbert Langen, n.d. (ca. 1925). First edition. Quarto. Color pictorial paper covered boards. Superb color Jugendstil style illustrations throughout by Schulz. Spine paper chipped away, internally clean and bright. Scarce. (Item #87)

Original Jessie Willcox Smith Watercolor Illustrations for The Water Babies, comprising one large sheet of six different mixed-media images (pen and ink and watercolor). Executed 1915-1916 and appearing in her famous Kingsley classic, The Water-Babies in 1916. On the verso is a written note, presumably in Smithís hand, stating: ìTitle-..... (Item #438)

n.d. (ca 1950). Offered here is an original printed handkerchief with a charming color scene of the Little King with a toy soldier and animal motifs, by Otto Soglow, probably issued as a promo for one of his books circa 1950. Very good and extremely scarce. (Item #73)