1347 - 1470 CHILDREN'S BOOKS (including COMICS, DRAWINGS, GAMES and TOYS)
- Partly w. some browned spots; owner's entry on upper pastedown. Lacks ties; frontcover sl. waterst. along top.
Matéaux, C.L. Woodland Romances.; or, Fables and Fancies. London, Paris & New York, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, n.d. (±1875), VI,(3),10-192,(1),2-7,(1 adv.)p., woodengr. frontisp., (full-p.) ills., orig. gilt and pict. cl., a.e.g.
- Upper hinge almost broken; first and final few lvs. foxed (incl. frontisp.); some ills. coloured w. watercolour; bookplate on upper pastedown. Corners and spine-ends dam.; joints splitting at foot of spine; binding trifle/ sl. soiled.
= Rare.
Lang, A. The Gold of Fairnilee. Bristol & London, J. W. Arrowsmith and Simpkin, Marshall & Co., n.d. (±1890), (8),86,(2)p., col. lithogr. frontisp. by T. SCOTT, 14 col. lithogr. plates by E.A. LEMANN, orig. cl., 4to.
- Upper hinge breaking, remnants of glue of repair-attempt(?) on frontisp. (not affecting image) and title-p.; two plates loosely inserted. Binding stained on frontcover; sl. rubbed.
AND 4 others.
- Slightly later owner's entry in pencil on first free endpaper; bookplate on upper pastedown; endpapers foxed. Backstrip sl. dam. at spine ends.
AND 4 others, i.a. R.L. STEVENSON, A Child's Garden of Verses (London, n.d. (±1915), col. plates, monochr. ills and orig. pict. cl. by CHARLES ROBINSON).
- Box sl. rubbed at extremities.
- Uncut copy. Contents fine. Dustwr. and foot of spine trifle rubbed/ dam.
Byron, M. The Little Green Door. The Story of the Maze of many Marvels. London, Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, (1909), (100)p., (col.) ills., orig. clothbacked boards, sm. 8vo.
- Partly sl. (water?)st. in lower blank margin. Binding sl. soiled. = Rare.
AND 1 other.
- Trifle foxed. Binding w. scratch and spine sl. sunned, but otherwise a good copy.
Browning, R. L'Homme à la Flûte. Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1889, 1st French ed., 64p., col. lithogr. ills. and orig. pict. clothbacked boards by KATE GREENAWAY, 4to.
- Owner's entry on title-p. Binding worn along extremities, otherwise a good copy.
= Schuster & Engen, p.89: French edition.
AND 9 others, i.a. BLANCHARD (= Marie-Reine de Montfalcon), Bibiche chez tante Gertrude (Paris, 1951, col. lithogr. ills. and orig. pict. wr. by the author, obl. folio), IDEM, Bibiche s'amuse (ibid., 1951, col. lithogr. ills. and orig. pict. wr. by the author, obl. folio) and A la Campagne (n.pl., n.d. (±1925), col. lithogr. ills., orig. pict. wr.).
- Occas. trifle yellowed and fingersoiled. Rebacked.
= Cf. Wegehaupt I, 2039. Very fine and delicately handcol. plates. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVIII.
- A few lvs. w. tear in blank margin; bookblock sl. shaken. Boards browned.
(Mees-Verweij), M.E.A. De Geschiedenis van een Kraai. Santpoort/ Antw., C.A. Mees/ De Sikkel, 1923, 32p., ills. and orig. clothbacked pict. boards, entirely lithographed in orange and black by L(EON) S(ENF), sm. 4to.
= Nicely illustrated picture book in Hoytema-style. De Bodt/ Kapelle p.44 and 101.
AND 5 others, i.a. K. VAN DEN OEVER, Perelierken en Ginneginneken (Rott., (1906), col. plates, ills., dec. and orig. clothbacked boards by C.J. ADDICKS, 4to).
- Endpapers waterst., not affecting contents (which are fine); hinges starting at foot of spine. Binding sl. waterst. at foot of spine; w. some sm. stains on frontcover; trifle/ sl. rubbed along extremities.
Oxenford, E. Sing me a song. Music by A. Scott Gatty. London & Sydney, Griffith etc., n.d. (±1889), 24 lvs. w. chromolithogr. plates, lithogr. monochr. ills. by various illustrators, musical scores and text, orig. clothbacked chromolithogr. boards, 4to.
- Binding sl. soiled and rubbed/ worn along extremties.
- Contents loose(ning)/ partly reattached. Covers sl. browned and sl. worn along extremities; backcover a few stains.
= Nicely illustrated work.
Bédollière, E. de. Histoire de la mère Michel et de son chat. Ibid., J. Hetzel, 1846, (6),101,(5)p., woodengr. frontisp. and num. woodengr. ills. by LORENTE, contemp. boards. - AND 2 German children's books in 3 vols., i.a. J. SWIFT, Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder (Stuttg., 1854, 2 vols., woodengr. frontisp. and num. ills. by J.J. GRANDVILLE, contemp. unif. giltlettered and blindst. cl. Partly foxed/ occas. browned).
- Some foxing; vol. 4 bookblock loose. = Wegehaupt III, 3646.
Bilder zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für die Jugend. Erster/ Dritter Theil. Esslingen, J.F. Schreiber, n.d. (±1870), new ed., 2 vols., (6),12; (8),7p., 52 (of 54) double-p. chromolithogr. plates, orig. clothbacked chromolithogr. boards/ later cl. w. use of orig. chromolithogr. frontcover, 4to.
- Vol. 3 lacks 2 plates; vol. 3 lacks portion of text leaf. = Cf. Wegehaupt I, 155.
AND 1 other.
- First free endpaper w. some cut-outs and first few lvs. w. two 1-2 cm. (scissor)cuts; trifle/ sl. fingersoiled. Backstrip sunned.
Jewett, J.H. The Little Toy Bearkins. Ibid., Nister & Co., n.d. (±1910), (40)lvs., col. lithogr. ills. and orig. clothbacked boards by R.C. PETHERICK, sm. 8vo.
- Contents trifle browned/ foxed. = On Rosa C. Petherick: Peppin & Micklethwait, p. 233.
AND 8 others, i.a. MRS STRANG'S PLAY BOOKS: Dear Dolly's Picture Book (Oxford, n.d. (±1925), 6 thick board pages (incl. front- and backcovers) w. col. ills. by various illustrators, connected w. cotton tape).
- Sl. yellowed and some sl. occas. foxing; upper and lower hinge strrengthened. Backstrip sl. worn; upper joint splitting at foot; covers sl. soiled.
= Very rare. The copy traced in the KB has the same contents, but lacks 'De geschiedenis van slordige Dina' which is present in our copy. Dutch edition of Struwwelpeters Geschwister, cf. Rühle 322.
AND a dam. and incomplete copy of HOPMANIUS (= J. Hopman), Losse bladen uit het zondenregister van ondeugende kinderen. Een keurig boekgeschenk voor deugdzame Hollandsche jongens en meisjes (Amst., (1859), handcol. lithogr. ills., orig. clothbacked tinted lithogr. pict. boards, 4to. Lacks 6 lvs., some lvs. dam./ strengthened; binding soiled/ rubbed. Rühle 282; Lust en Leering p.217f).
- Upper hinge broken; endpapers waterst. and sl. foxed, not affecting contents. Boards waterst. in lower outer corners and sl. soiled; corners bumped/ dam.
= Cf. Osborne, p.65-66.
One Two Buckle My Shoe. London, Dean & Son, n.d. (±1880), (4) lvs. (printed on one side only), chromolithogr. ills. and wr., narrow 4to.
- Backwrapper lacks portion of lower inner corner (2x3 cm.), affecting only capital "N" of text printed on verso; (sl.) worn along extremities.
= From the "Pinafore Series of Toy Books"
AND 6 others.
- Some sl. foxing; title-p. w. owner's entry and sm. dam. from sticking together w. next leaf. Boards foxed and rubbed.
= Cf. Rühle 262c (note); The Children's World of Learning 3787; Lust en Leering p.210f and p.224; Caljé-Van Gulik 517. Published on occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first Dutch edition (1849).
AND a mediocre copy of IDEM, Een aardig prentenboek met leerzame vertellingen; naar het beroemde Hoogduitsche kinderwerk "Der Struwwelpeter" (ibid., n.d. (±1898), col. lithogr. ills., orig. clothbacked pict. boards, 4to. Lacks title; partly (sl.) frayed/ strengthened; cover sl. soiled and rubbed. Cf. Rühle 212).
- Bookblock sl. shaken; sl. later annot. in green ink on upper pastedown.
AND 5 others, i.a. IDEM, Kleine Kleuters (Utr., n.d. (±1930), (col.) ills. and orig. clothbacked boards by NELLY SPOOR, obl. 4to. Rare).
- Sm. contemp. owner's entry on htitle; some sl. occas. foxing and fingersoiling; a few repaired tears in blank margins. Rebacked w. modern cl. and recased.
= Huiskamp V189.
- Contents partly sl. stained. Binding sl. stained/ sunned.
The Toy Book Present. London, The Religious Tract Society, n.d. (1872), no pagination, col. engr. frontisp. and 23 plates, orig. gilt and blindst. cl., 4to.
- Slightly foxed. Upper joint starting at top of spine.
AND 2 others.
- Corners and spine-ends of covers sl. worn; frontcover a few tiny stains. = Heller 3C.
Wijck, S. van. Vier reizende muzikantjes (een kikkersprookje). The Hague, Boek en Periodiek, n.d. (1924), 36p., scores by A. WINS, ills. and orig. clothbacked pict. boards by J.W.M. WINS, 4to. - AND 7 others, i.a. W. CRANE, Queen Summer ot the Tourney of the Lily & the Rose (London etc., 1891, (full-p.) col. lithogr. ills., endpapers and orig. clothbacked dec. boards by W. CRANE, bound as a blockbook, 4to. Backstrip dam., corners worn) and J. WILDVANCK and E. BESKOW, Hansje in 't bessenland (Bussum, n.d., 16th ed., col. lithogr. plates and orig. clothbacked pict. boards w. by E. BESKOW, obl. 8vo. Occas. trifle foxed).
- Upper hinge weakening; a few lvs. trifle foxed/ soiled. Sl. rubbed/ worn along extremities. = Rare.
Eva's Mulberry Tree. A Story in Rhyme. London, Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, n.d. (±1884), 43p., col. lithogr. frontisp., ills. and orig. clothbacked boards, large 8vo.
- Upper hinge broken at title-p., w. remnants of old glue on blank margins. Sl. rubbed along extremities; corners worn; boards trifle/ sl. yellowed/ soiled.
AND 6 others, i.a. F.E. WEATHERLY, Sixes and Sevens (London, n.d. (±1880), col. lithogr. ills. and orig. clothbacked pict boards by J.M. DEALY) and I.C. SOMERSET, Our Village Life (n.pl., 1884, col. lithogr. ills. by the author, orig. clothbacked boards, large 4to).








































