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IT ETAIT UN FOIS UN ALPHABET.
Fine. Original spiral bound boards and pages of varying weight; lower cover is meant to be cut out to form a container for the letter cut outs.
ID#: 17084More details Price: £450.00 -
KINDERGARTEN GUIDE.
London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1898. New edition with over 200 illustrations and 16 colour plates. Bates was the author of RECITATIONS FOR CHILDREN, SALTAIRE KINDERGARTEN GAMES, GUESSING GAMES and more. Bates stresses the importance of understanding Froebel’s principles and the way they are connected throughout all the Gifts and Occupation. Her text includes: Kindergarten Gifts; Occupations; Ordinary School Subjects; Singing and Drill. This guide is well represented in libraries, but not very common in trade. Ref. 17079 8vo (18.5 x 12cm);(x) + 388pp. with numerous illustrations from photographs and sketches plus 16 plates in colour.
Original cloth with decorative design bordering title on upper cover, edges gently nicked, some spotting to cloth; new endpapers; sprinkled faint foxing. A well preserved copy.
ID#: 17079More details Price: £125.00 -
KODOMO NO KUNI (Children’s Land).
( Volume 13, # 2)
Original illustrated stiff paper covers, staple bound;
ID#: 17123More details Price: £375.00 -
L'AUTOMNE; L'HIVER; LE PRINTEMPS; L'ÊTÉ
Une frise à colorier.
Decorative bands or Friezes in very good to fine condition; the band for “L’HIVER” is separating at the centre fold for about 2 inches, but still holding well.
ID#: 17127More details Price: £375.00 -
L'EDUCATION D'UNE POUPÉE.
The binding, measuring 5.5 x 7 cm is in fine condition but for a faint smudge, not affecting the painting, under the glass on the upper cover; the painting under glass on the lower cover is fine also. Spine covered in embossed gilt paper;upper and lower covers framed in pearled gold paper trim. Internally, moderate foxing, less so on engraved plates. Original plain white endpapers; a.e.g. A lovely survival.
ID#: 17125More details Price: £2,250.00 -
L'USINE ENCHANTÉE
CONTE NO. 12 DE LA PHOSPHATINE FALIÈRES.
Original colour printed paper poster folded twice horizontally and twice vertically with a tiny perforation at one fold. Still Fine. In Original envelope with cover illustration and with original printed label. Rare in this condition.
ID#: 17007More details Price: £150.00 -
LA BASSE-COUR
Album de decoupage.
(Paris?): Volumetrix, ca. 1942-49. A charming decoupage album from the immediate post-war years with Froebel “echoes”. It consists of four large removable colour plates from which a child can cut out figures of the farmer and various animals of the poultry yard. Designed in a strict geometrical fashion, these figures require very careful and thoughtful cutting along lines of squares and circles and then, folding into Cube-like shapes. Attractive and challenging. So far we have located a copy only in Princeton’s Cotsen Special Collection. Cut and Fold Staple bound album; original printed light card covers with central illustration + 4 light card sheets for cutting out with numbered shapes in colours.
Original stapled printed heavy stock with upper cover illustration and instructions on lower cover, a bit of slight edgewear; internally, 4 unnumberd light card sheets with coloured figures to be cut out. Complete and in very good condition. Ref. 17013
ID#: 17013More details Price: £195.00 -
LA BIÈRE ET LE HOUBLON.
Limoges: Marc Barbou, 1884. A volume in the series LEÇONS DE CHOSES POUR LE PETITS ENFANTS. All about the making of beer, with numerous (crude) illustrations from wood-engravings. Full of scientific and technical information for young but intelligent children. Quite scarce. Ref. 17087 Beer-Making and Hops Gathering for Children. 18mo (13 x 8.5 cm); 64 pp. with illustrations reproduced from wood engravings.
Original binding in cartonnage with illustrations of children at work baking, picking grapes, etc. The rear cover framed in rustic border bears the motto: “ META LABORIS HONOR”. Nice condition but for creasing of thin spine and loss of spine paper in tiny portion of heel which has been lightly reinforced.
ID#: 17087More details Price: £135.00 -
LA FÉE BIENFAISANTE.
LES CONTES DE LA PHOSPHATINE FALIÉRES/CONTES 1.
Fine condition, with the exception of a very slight perforation at one fold; envelope has been opened, with one flap partly separated; printed and decorated label still securely in place.
ID#: 17006More details Price: £150.00 -
LA MALLE MERVEILLEUSE
Original stiff paper covers, printed in colors; internally vibrant; a fine copy.
ID#: 16409More details Price: £125.00 -
LE CHATEAU DES FLEURS.
Original decoratively printed paper covered boards, professionally re-backed in red cloth, upper corners skillfully reinforced, soiling and some nicking to extremities of paper; new endpapers at front successfully co-ordinated with original rear endpapers; infrequent light scattered foxing.
ID#: 16667More details Price: £235.00 -
LE JARDIN DES ENFANS, OU BOUQUETS DE FAMILLE ET COMPLIMENS
Propre a Exprimer L’Amour Et Le Respect Des Enfans Envers leurs Parens en Différentes Circonstances, Telles Que Fêtes, Anniversaires, Jours de L’An, etc...
Paris: Emery, Fruger & Compagnie, 1831. Rather analogous to the language of flowers so popular at the time, this text aims to assemble appropriate sentiments in language into “bouquets” for use on special occasions. Charming little etiquette and social history book in its “Quinzième Edition”, with letter models for children suitable for their ages, and little comedies and scenes to be performed within the family or in pensionnats for young ladies. It is reasonably well represented in libraries, though we have not yet found this edition, nor an edition that specified a hand-coloured frontispiece such as we have here. GUMUCHIAN 3174. Possibly first issued in 1801.l Ref. 16949 Appropriate Good Wishes...as in a Bouquet. 12mo (13 x 8 cm);viii +(9-)214 pp., including hand-coloured frontispiece.
Bound in mid- 19th century leather over marbled paper covered boards, gilt-ruled spine with title in spine compartment; covers scuffed; small portion of marbled paper scraped from boards on lower cover; contemporary endpapers; scattered light to moderate foxing; coloured frontispiece illustration fresh.
ID#: 16949More details Price: £190.00 -
LE JARDINIER DE NOTRE ÉCOLE. (cover title)
Original drawing paper throughout, fine; some crinkling to the rather too heavy overslips on the drawings; drawings fine.
ID#: 16945More details Price: £700.00 -
LE LIVRE DE JEANNOT.
Original colour printed stiff paper covers with pencil, offering red at one end and blue at the other, in very good condition; internally fine.
ID#: 17124More details Price: £190.00 -
LES ALBUMS DE PÈRE CASTOR
(Paris): ca. 1940. A shaped booklet - Père Castor, himself, as a publicity brochure for the famous albums. With lists of current Jeux; Jeaux Manuels; Contes; Histoires, etc. Shaped booklet, 14.5 x 10 cm; 1 sheet folded, with text in colours inside and illustrations in colours upper and lower covers.
Fine.
ID#: 16735More details Price: £50.00 -
LES ENFANTS DE PARIS ET D'AILLEURS À COLORIER /
LES ENFANTS DE PARIS ET D’AILLEURS 8 ALBUMS À COLORIER. / Nouveaux Coloriages/ Images de Gerda.
Original colour printed enclosing wrappers (an additional flap in the same size as the covers is added to the wrappers) with 8 separate albums, leporello style, in black and white contained within. The wrappers show rubbing and wear at extremities and exhibit small older tape repairs at heel - these repairs are made on the inside of the wrapper and are not evident from the outside. The colour illustrated internal flaps are full page and in fine condition. The separate black and white albums enclosed are in fine condition. Ref. 17012
ID#: 17012More details Price: £600.00 -
LES JEUX CHAMPÊTRES DES ENFANS.
Et De L'Ile Des Monstres; Conte De Fées Pour Faire Suite Aux Veillées Du Chateau Dédiés A S.A.S. Monseigneur Le Duc de Chartres.
Original full leather, marbled boards bordered in gilt tooling; with gilt decorated spine and gilt lettered red leather lettering piece; marbled endpapers ;a.e.g.; very tiny chip at head of spine and some wear at spine edge; a bit of light wear here and there; and some light browning at margins of initial and rear pages.; the plates are fresh and bright. A very good copy.
ID#: 16894More details Price: £1,850.00 -
LIVELY DRAWING WITH PENCIL AND BRUSH.
BOOK ONE; BOOK TWO; BOOK ? ( Unnumbered)
Volumes 1 and 2 are staple bound manilla covers, printed in colours, and, apart from a small smudge or slight evidence of shelf wear, they are fine copies. The undated, larger volume sewn and bound in a canvas -type cloth, printed and titled in colours bears the penned name of “Sheila Harrington” at the top edge of the upper cover and her name and address are also on the blank inside upper cover; there is some light soiling and marking to the canvas covers, still, very good.
ID#: 16912More details Price: £500.00 -
MANUEL DE FONDATEURS ET DES DIRECTEURS DES PREMIÈRES ÉCOLES DE L'ENFANCE,
Connues Sous Le Nom De Salles D’Asile;
Bound in mid-19th century quarter leather, gilt ruled spine with gilt title lettering; minor wear at spine ends; outer upper spine separating slightly (1”), inner hinge secure; marbled paper over board covers, edgewear, board exposed by about 1 x 1 inches on lower cover, toning to endpapers. Old library stamp of Chateau de la Roche Guyon on title page. A very good copy. Ref. 17040
ID#: 17040More details Price: £400.00 -
"Model Farmyard." (packet title) A delightful Occupation For Children Of All Ages Who Find Much Pleasure In Colouring And Cutting Out the 12 Large Cards....
The twelve cards are in excellent condition; the printed and illustrated packet is in very good condition with only a few small tears at folds.
ID#: 16648More details Price: £100.00