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Best.-Nr. 5241Couverture rigide. Bon/1802. in-12. Paris André 1802 in-12 15 vol reliure plein veau dos lisse et doré Quelques défauts mineurs sinon très bel exemplaire abondamment illustré 95 de gravures sur Cuivre par Monnet Marillier etc. unknown
Best.-Nr. 21426CHILDREN'S BOOKS BERQUIN Arnaud. THE LOOKING-GLASS FOR THE MIND OR THE JUVENILE FRIEND. Philadelphia: John Bioren 1805. 12mo. Contemporary full sheep. 271 pages. Second edition. Shaw and Shoemaker 7977. A popular American children's book in America with seventy-three woodblock illustrations by Alexander Anderson. Lacking frontispiece. Some foxing as usual; most illustrations have been crudely colored. unknown
1854Best.-Nr. 288669Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley 1854 Dark Green/Gilt Embossed Covers Edge Wear Some Signatures Shifted Boards Tight. Rare Edition Containing Four Of Berquin's Works. Ink Inscriptions Fep Rep Engraved Frontis Piece Has Two Inch Tear As Does Tissue. Title Pages Illustrated Full Pages Engraved Illustrations In Each Story. A Rare Collection Of French Fables Well Illustrated. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Owner's Name. 1st Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Crissy & Markley hardcover
1799Best.-Nr. 171London: Printed for John Stockdale Piccadilly. 1799. Full leather. Good. Fourth edition. Full leather over boards. 12mo Frontispiece xi 1 294pp 6 advertisements. Gift inscription to ffep in ink. Occasional Foxing. Covers show wear to edges and corners with a small open tear to front and beginning of separation of the back board at the top hinge.Berquin's stories consisted of events that might happen to children in their everyday lives. His books envision childhood reading as a familial exercise; for example some of his "stories" are actually plays with parts for every member of the family. Berquin's books helped solidify the creation of the nuclear family for "if Berquin's work has a theme it is that parents and children live in a perfect symbiosis the parents looking after their children's interests and the children if behaving properly filling their parents with joy." - Introductory essay to L'Ami des Enfans. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly. unknown
Best.-Nr. 42049Folio 22 58 6 95 3 pag. kartonnen band wat gebruikt. Geillustreerd met 18 van 22 uitslaande gravures. Mist uit deel I de titelpagina het privilege en de opdracht samen 3 bladen. Laatste blad van deel I in fotokopie. unknown
1817Best.-Nr. 286981Paris: A La Libraire D' Education D' Alexis Eymery Rue Mazarine. No. 30 1817 Two Volumes Pp 164 Pp 206. Tables Des Matieres. Brown Leather With Red Title Plates Banded Spine. Clean Tight. Engraved Title Pages And Frontispieces. Rare Set. Worldcat Finds 0 Copies. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. 1st Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good. A La Libraire D' Education D' Alexis Eymery, Rue Mazarine. No. 30 hardcover
1794Best.-Nr. 56314Providence R. Island: Carter and Wilkinson and sold at their book and stationery store opposite the Market 1794. First American edition 12mo pp. 8 252; lacking frontispiece 37 woodcut vignette woodcuts by John Bewick a few hand colored duplicate hand-colored illustration of William and Amelia on front pastedown; full original calf gilt-ruled spine with red morocco label; boards rubbed and bumped text foxed with a few tears entering from the margins no loss of letterpress small wormhole in the bottom margin of the preliminaries; good and sound. Alden 1354; Evans 26645 Hamilton 152; Welch 76.1. Carter and Wilkinson, and sold at their book and stationery store, opposite the Market unknown
1789Best.-Nr. E24006Newburyport: John McCall for William P. Blake at the Boston Bookstore 1789. First American edition. Hardcover. Fair. Very scarce. First American edition. No date but either 1787 or 1790. 2 blanks title with small woodcut decoration; 274 pp. plus final leaf "Contents of Third Volume" so Volume III only. No illustrations called for in the American edition. Translated from the French of Arnaud Berquin. In the original binding half leather over paper covered boards; the spine strip is well worn with chipping to the exterior layer of leather at the foor of the spine; the plain paper covering of the front board is partially chipped away. Some staining to the front and rear endpapers with a small portion of the front endpaper torn away at the bottom right corner. The text block however is secure in its binding. Some scattered foxing to the text. Arnaud Berquin 1741-1791 wasa French author of children's books. His most famous is this work originally titled in French "L'ami des Enfants" was published in Paris in 17682-83 and the English translation in London in 1783-84. The original translation into English was by Mary Stockdale daughter of John Stockdale who printed it. "The Children's Friend" was comprised of stories that were about things that might happen to children in everyday life rather that being fairy tales or the like. Some were instructional "Absolute obedience to Parents" "The Good Son Rewarded" for example some were humorous "The Monkey" and most were presented in dialogue format or as plays "The Christmas-box" "Honesty The Best Policy" etc. It appears that the four volumes of this the first American printing we not issued simultaneously but over a period in 1789 and 1790. We also do not find the full group of four volumes in any institutional holding. John McCall for William P. Blake at the Boston Bookstore hardcover
1796Best.-Nr. 18540à Paris: imprimerie de Moutardier 1796. Fine. imprimerie de Moutardier à Paris 1796 10.50 x 14 cm deux parties reliées en un volume New illustrated edition of these Romances. One frontispiece and 13 unsigned figures and 44 pages of engraved music. Printed on heavy laid paper. Contemporary full tree-calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with arabesques and fleurons. Triple fillet border on covers. All edges gilt. Handsome copy. Light rubbing to corners and joints. Berquin's poetry enjoyed immense success and was consequently qualified as popular while it perfectly reflects European literature of the late 18th century and one sometimes feels the first Romanticism coming from Germany and England. Some poems are dark and theatrical full of Gothic reminiscences: « Sous la tour du château s'ouvre une enceinte affreuse/ Où jamais n'a percé le jour/ Les flots d'une vapeur infecte et ténébreuse/ Inondent cet impur séjour. » Under the castle tower opens a dreadful enclosure/ Where daylight has never pierced/ The waves of an infected and dark vapor/ Flood this impure dwelling. After devoting himself to poetry Berquin 1747-1791 was the first French author to specialize in children's literature. The music pages are by Cousin-Jacques a columnist of the period. On the endpaper manuscript gift inscription: A Claire de Caperoy. imprimerie de Moutardier unknown
1855Best.-Nr. 38151PRIMERA EDICION.- Paris: Delarue Libraire-Editeur Imp. de J. Claye s.a. ca. 1855.- 2 h. grabadas 346 p. 10 p. de catálogo editorial: Ilustrado con 84 grabados xilográficos incluso portada in frontis todos ellos a plena página realizados por HE. o H. Emy que también firma con el nombre de Teleroy Diolot Coste Pisan Edeschamps Simon; 8º mayor 197 cm.; Enc. en Plena Piel tafilete de color azul lomo con cuatro nervios dorado planos con rueda dorada recuadrando y contracantos con rueda dorada estuche no conserva las cubiertas originales en rústica.- Llibro de gran interés que contiene 230 canciones populares francesas de autores como Désaugiers Gouffé Vadé Berquin Dennery Favart Brillat-Savarin Sédaine Scribe Panard Charles Delange A. Despres y otros muchos más. PRECIOSO Y RARO EJEMPLAR EN IMPECABLE ESTADO. ETNOGRAFÃA FOLKLORE CANCIONEROS Y REFRANEROS DEL EXTRANJERO EN GENERAL Livre en français Delarue hardcover
1802Best.-Nr. 097574London: Printed for J. Stockdale. J. Johnson Etc 1802. Book measures 7 x 4 1/2 inches. Collation xii300pp engraved frontis and 3 engraved plates. Bound in modern antiquarian style full leather raised bands blind lines red leather title label full gilt edges. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally previous owners inscription dated 1809 occasional minor staining browning to plates. Pages and plates in good condition. A very nice copy. . Full Leather. Very Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed for J. Stockdale. J. Johnson, Etc Hardcover
1803Best.-Nr. 21527Paris: Ant. Aug. Renouard 1803. The binding has moderate old wear the hinges have cracks but are holding bookplate. Small 8vo. ii 296p ii contents. Illustrated with 20 engraved plates each with tissue guard. Bound in period leather with marbled endpapers a.e.g. the spine with gilt titles with rules and small ornaments. With a FORE-EDGE painting of Noah's Ark with the procession of the animals. A very detailed and accomplished painting on a rare book. Ant. Aug. Renouard unknown
1787Best.-Nr. 310969London: E. Newbery 1787. First edition in English. Engraved frontispiece. iv 212 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Full speckled calf in period style morocco label. Faintest traces of foxing to prelims else fine. First edition in English. Engraved frontispiece. iv 212 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First London edition of this influential French children's work widely reprinted in England and in America. Translated by J. Cooper i.e. Richard Johnson: "J. Cooper" was one of the pseudonyms used by Richard Johnson. Cf. Weedon M.J.P. "Richard Johnson and the successors to John Newbery" in Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 5th ser. v. 4 1949: 37 and 59. ESTC T90041; Osborne p. 233 note E. Newbery unknown
1803Best.-Nr. 73224Paris: Renouard 1803. Fine. Renouard Paris 1803 - 1810 10 x 17 cm 17 volumes reliés New illustrated edition with 232 figures principally by Borel. Volume XIV contains an additional suite by Moreau a suite by Marillier and another anonymous suite. Copy on vellum paper the figures on heavy vellum. At the end of the publisher's notice a leaf with the price of works: the 20 volumes in-18 fine paper in wrappers with 18 engravings.30Fr. The same with 212 engravings in wrappers.60Fr. The same 17 volumes deluxe vellum paper figures from first proofs.120Fr. The volumes may be purchased separately by works. While at Princeton University and the Royal Library of Denmark one finds only the edition in 20 volumes with 18 engravings this copy proves more desirable in 17 volumes on vellum. According to the British Library copy the edition which announced 212 engravings offered only 205 so the others were added. Contemporary half Russia leather binding. Smooth spine decorated with 4 small concentric fleurons and roulettes. Red paper on boards imitating long-grained morocco. Some rubbing notably to corners. Scattered foxing. Lacking the table for volume X. Some leaves protruding. Uncut copy. Details of the collection: Vol. I-VII L'ami des enfans et de l'adolescence. Vol. VIII Le livre de famille ou Entretiens familiers sur les connaissances les plus nécessaires à la jeunesse; Vol. IX-X Bibliothèque des villages. Vol. XI Introduction a la connoissance de la nature imitée de l'anglois; Vol. XII-XIII Choix de lectures pour les enfans ou Recueil de contes d'anecdotes et de traits de vertu choisis des meilleurs auteurs. Vol. XIV Idylles romances et autres poésies de Berquin; Vol. XV-XVI Sandford et Merton imité de l'anglois. Vol. XVII Le petit Grandisson imité du hollandois. The author Berquin 1747-1791 specialized very early in children's literature being indeed the first to have done so. His children's books enjoyed great popularity and were very frequently reprinted throughout the nineteenth century. English and German children of the late eighteenth century knew Berquin's work very well. The greater part of l'ami des enfants consists of short theatrical pieces historical moral childish. but one also finds numerous short tales and romances letters as well as a shipwreck narrative. Thus one counts in the general table of contents 106 entries. L'ami de l'adolescence also contains moral theatrical pieces and other pieces more narrative or more clearly pedagogical; one should note La relation d'un naufrage sur l'île Royale and le Système du monde mis à la portée de cet âge. Certain works are entirely devoted to instruction and pedagogy such as L'introduction à la connaissance de la nature notably through animal figures or the Entretiens sur les connaissances. Moreover it is not that Berquin was the first to extend this literature that is important it is rather that one can situate at this period the introduction of childhood into our cultures and Berquin is precisely an eloquent testimony to this. Furthermore it was undoubtedly among the first times that one found so many children represented in illustration. Renouard hardcover
1827Best.-Nr. 78313London:: Printed for John Harris. 1827. The Seventeenth Edition. old full calf; spine essentially perished except for most of the lettered spine label. Spine perished as noted; cracked at joints; but tight and sound nevertheless; contents clean. 12mo. With seventy-four cuts designed and engraved on wood by I. Bewick. Chiefly Translated from that much admired work L'Ami des Enfans. From the Library of Robert Louis Stevenson with the Vailima book label on the front pastedown which is signed by Isobel Strong Stevenson's stepdaughter. Signed and dated 1856 by Thomas Stevenson the author's father on the front free endpaper which also bears the distinguished W. K. Bixby bookplate designed by E. D. French. An old clipped bookseller's description is laid in. Printed for John Harris.... unknown