The Child's Own Book of Animals [FIRST EDITION - RARE in COMPLETE STATE]

Darton

Verlag: London: Darton and Co. Holborn Hill, 1840

Beschreibung

Size of binding: 15 in. x 11 in., extremely rare and beautiful children's picture book dating from the 1850's [1845 - 1862] which is when the firm of Darton and Co started publishing books. Beautifully decorated front board - in gilt and colour - rebacked in cloth with gilt title to the spine. I recently had this book rebacked. Not even the RARE books section of the Bodleian Library can find details on this book - if anyone out there can shed any more light I would be grateful. The Lithographs- 12 beautiful engravings - a central steel lithograph with smaller engravings surrounding it - with an illustrated colour title page. All lithographs are accompanied by text and this text is in varying degrees of state of repair. The TEXT only The Horse text is in good repair - starts with "The Horse is per-haps of grea-ter use to man than any other an-i-mal."; The Beaver text - closed tear to this page [1/2 inch] The Cat text - repaired closed tear with sticky labels [4 inch tear] The Cow text has multiple tears to the page all around the edge and is repaired to the rear of the page; one tear has been stitched (see photo) The Dog text - closed tear [4 to 5 inches] The Ass text - no tears The Pig - no tears The Sheep text - tear with part of the page and text missing The Bear text - closed tear [1 and half inch] The Camel text - no tears - starts "The form of the Ca-mel is ve-ry sin-gu-lar." The Elephant text - no tears The Lion - multiple tears including one right across the page (see photo) - no text missing Beautiful Lithographs all in good condition; pages foxed to a small or greater extent throughout; not sure if the pages are bound in the correct order but this is still a very rare book. Externally: good Internally: good apart from tears and foxing mentioned above Publisher: London: Darton and Co, Holorn Hill. Publication Date: 1850's Binding: Cloth Book Condition: Good Edition: 1st Edition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-17941110304

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Child's Own Book of Animals [FIRST ...

Verlag: London: Darton and Co. Holborn Hill

Erscheinungsdatum: 1840

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition