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Ideal Heads by Ida Waugh - 1890

by Ida Waugh

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Ideal Heads

by Ida Waugh

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Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Company, 1890 A lovely, well-preserved copy of the 1890 1st edition. "Twenty Lithoed Water-Color Engravings with Illustrations on Wood by Eminent Artists". Each portrait (or "Ideal Head") lavishly rendered in beautiful chromolithography. Decorative cloth boards with elaborate gilt-designed front panel. Folio, unpaginated, all edges gilt. Bright, VG+ and still tightly-bound. Modest, light water-staining to the first engraving, all remaining 19 engravings immaculate, as is the text as well. A very handsome example of late 19th century lithography and the first illustration to appear in book form by the estimable Jessie Wilcox Smith. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good.
  • Bookseller Appledore Books, ABAA US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Collectible; Very Good
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Sunshine Publishing Company
  • Place of Publication Philadelphia
  • Date Published 1890
  • Keywords Rare Children's illustrated/ Jessie Wilcox Smith

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Ideal Heads

Ideal Heads

by Ida Waugh

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Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Small folio (11" x 14") hardcover in tan cloth ornately lettered and decorated in gilt and light blue with design of marching children and flowers. All edges gilt. Patterned endpapers. Unpaginated (aprox 50 pp.) With twenty beautiful water-color engravings of little children and illustrations on wood "by Eminent Artists". A tight, very good or somewhat better example, shallow wear at the spine extremities and rubbing to the blue flowers on the front cover. Interior and all color plates clean. (NOTE: due to size and weight, international orders will require significant additional postage. Please inquire.).
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Ideal Heads

by Waugh, Ida

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Sunshine Publishing Co.. A lovely crisp hardcover copy in good plus condition, lightly shaken, worn cloth at extremities, corners lightly bumped. . Good. Hardcover. 1890.
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Ideal heads Waugh, Ida

by Waugh, Ida

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Sunshine Pub. Co, 1890-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1890 Twenty Lithoed Water-Color Engravings with Illustrations on Wood by Eminent Artists Nustard Colored boards that are bit worn very tight book with vg+ pages
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Ideal Heads ; Twenty Lithoed Water-Colored Engravings with Illustrations on Wood by Eminent Artists

by Waugh, Ida

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Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Co., 1890. Very Good in original publisher's cloth stamped in gilt and with blue, green and white floral decorations, all edges gilt, green patterned floral end pages, cloth rubbed at spine ends and corners, two pages at center of book free from binding, front hinge starting at top edge. An attractive, clean copy with all engravings present and quite lovely. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
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Ideal Heads

Ideal Heads

by Waugh, Ida

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First Edition
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New York, New York, United States
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Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Company, 1890. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. Waugh, Ida;. Folio. 20 fine color plates (chromolithographic) of infants, all in fine condition. Text illustrations by artists other than Waugh, including an early work by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Other than minor soilage and minor shelfwear, gold cloth with illustration of parade of children and of flowered vine bright. Text clean, and text block tight. Hinge loose in front, with floral patterned endpaper with tear by hinge. If not for this hinge issue, a fine copy.
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Ideal Heads.

by WAUGH, Ida

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Used - The contents are fine. The background color of the front panel and spine of the cloth damaged by silverfish, causing overall li
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Philadelphia:: Sunshine Publishing Company,, 1890.. First edition.. publisher's cloth decorated in gold and colors, a.e.g.. The contents are fine. The background color of the front panel and spine of the cloth damaged by silverfish, causing overall light spotting--only to the background, however--not to the decoration. Tight and sound.. Folio,. Twenty Lithoed Water-Color Engravings in Color with Illustrations on Wood by Eminent Artists..
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Ideal Heads

by Waugh, Ida

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Used - Pictorial mustard cloth printed in gold, blue and green. Covers are slightly dampstained, a few leaves are starting; apart from
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First edition
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New York, New York, United States
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Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Company, 1890. First edition. Illustrated with 20 fine, full-page color lithograph plates, and numerous wood engravings from drawings by various artists, including the first book illustration by JESSIE WILCOX SMITH ("Five little maids all in a row" at p. [3]). 1 vols. Folio. Pictorial mustard cloth printed in gold, blue and green. Covers are slightly dampstained, a few leaves are starting; apart from an occasional marginal stain, for the most part, plates and text are immaculate. Smith, Jessie Wilcox. First edition. Illustrated with 20 fine, full-page color lithograph plates, and numerous wood engravings from drawings by various artists, including the first book illustration by JESSIE WILCOX SMITH ("Five little maids all in a row" at p. [3]). 1 vols. Folio. Jessie Wilcox Smith's First Book Illustration.
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