Klubbat för:

600 SEK

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1 500 SEK

Description

ENGLISH CHILDREN´S BOOKS (4). CRAIK, GEORGIANA MARION. Twelve Old Friends. A Book for Boys and Girls by Georgiana M. Craik, author of "Playroom Stories", "Cousin Trix", etc., etc. With eight plates by Gustav Doré. London, W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1885.
Oblong 8vo. 174 x 223 mm. VIII, 243 pp. 8 plates. Illustrations in the text. Well-preserved publisher´s decorated cloth. Fine copy.
GRAHAM, KENNETH. The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Seventy-Eighth Edition. London, Methuen & Co., 1944.
8vo. 181 x 129 mm. (6), 312 pp. Gilt green full morocco, all edges gilt (Bayntun-Riviere).
GREENAWAY, KATE. Under the Window. Pictures & Rhymes for Children by Kate Greenaway. Engraved & Printed by Edmund Evans. London, George Routledge & Sons, (1879).
Large 8vo. 240 x 190 mm. 64 pp. Somewhat worn clothspine with printed boards. Light foxing, some minor tears at bottom of inner hinge.
[Anonymous]. Under the Window. Pictures & Rhymes for Children after Kate Greenaway. New York, McLoughlin Bros, no year (1880´s).
Large 8vo. 240 x 190 mm. 64 pp. Worn publisher´s clothspine. Stains. An American pirate edition, with not entirely convincing copies of Greenaway´s illustrations.

4 volumes in all.

Provenance: Sten Ringselle (1949-2017), Swedish antiquarian bookdealer who in 1992 opened his shop Antiquaria in Gothenburg.

Condition

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Auktionsnummer:

523347

Date:

2018-02-28