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ONE OF WALTER CRANE'S BEST WORKS - ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL RICH COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS. The Text by ELIA (Charles Lamb) has been Written by Crane in his Calligraphic Style and Placed Within a Box Alongside Each Illustration. The New Year Gives a Party for All the Special Days of the New Year to Come. Each of the 40 chosen days are personified -It's a Display of Women & Men Wearing Styles of Dress from Many Earlier Eras. Walter Crane's Illustrations are Elaborate and Colorful.Printed on good paper stock in the French fold manner, 40 pgs plus color double-spread title page and a half- title page in red. Decorated endpapers. The book's edges & corners are rubbed, wear at spine's tips and edge, front inner hinge has some breaks to the paper (halfway down hinge to bottom - but it is tight, and at the very bottom of the back's fep is a neatly repaired 1/4" closed tear. Internally this copy is VG+ (clean, bright, tight with no marks.

THIS IS THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF A SUMPTUOUSLY ILLUSTRATED MOTHER GOOSE. A CLASSIC - It Is Still Being Printed Today! COMES WITH THE ORIGINAL BOX - AND THE VERY SCARCE 4-PAGE PROSPECTUS. FREDERICK RICHARDSON 'S GORGEOUS COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS ARE ON EVERY PAGE - THE RHYMES ARE INSERTED INTO A WHITE BORDERED BOX WITHIN EACH ILLUSTRATION.Chic:P.F. Volland & Co., (1915), 1st Edition, thus (NAP). Small folio, blue cloth gilt titles and a shaped pictorial label of Mother Goose & 3 children. Decorated eps and a foreword by Eulalie Osgood Grover, Previous owner glued the ffep and next pg (blank) too high - so that the blank page is creased at inner hinge and is wavy at the bottom. This blank page faces the Title page (which is in good condition). Two pgs have a few smudges (Ladybird & One Misty Morning). Still VG condThe 4-pg Prospectus is the same size as the book and is in VG condition,. It has a couple of creases at the edges and was at one time folded in half so there is a horiz fold… Read More

Women's Corset Trade Catalogue with ChromolithographsHere is a late 19th c. trade catalogue for the active, well-to- do woman. Features corsetsfor riding a horse and playing tennis. Oblong 16m. Illustrated with 25 color lithography and sepia drawings. Color choices: white, drab, fast black "to fit every variety of figure (tall, short,slender, stout..."). Illustrated cover has one crease bottom corne, o/w VG. Back cover hasstamped shop's name & city - "Longee Bros. & Smythe. St Johnsbury, VGWither women's rights. Scarce.

Grabhorn-Hoyem Press Presents Mother Goose 1970 Ltd Ed 1/300 copies. The artist, Philip Van Aver has made a series of 20 b/wpictures inserting each into different decorative frames. On each page there is one illustration to the left, to the right is the rhyme's title, followed below by several lines of the nursery rhyme which is centered on the page. Printed only on recto pages. The b/w illustrations are detailed, complex and have personality. The paper is British handmade and the text ishandset in Goudy Modern Open type. The book is in near fine, clean condition with the prospectus laid in. A Beautiful Production.