Berquin M (Arnaud) (1747-1791)Biblio.com
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1793ref. 278898Printed for J. Stockdale Piccadilly 1793. A new corrected edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Spine bands worn boards loose. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; 4 278 pages 6 leaves p#x8;of plates : illustrations engravings ; 18 cm 12mo. Subject; Conduct of life ; Juvenile literature. Printed for J. Stockdale, Piccadilly hardcover
1793ref. 279090London : Printed for J. Stockdale 1793. A new corrected edition with additions. Softcover. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 1 v. : ill. Subject; Conduct of life ; Juvenile literature. London : Printed for J. Stockdale paperback
ref. 1165778807.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1783ref. 14663The Children's Friend T. Cadell & P. Elmsley 1783 xvi 143 pages first edition a fine copy rebound in full calf with vg contents. The first book in the series. T. Cadell & P. Elmsley unknown
ref. 43900257like new. unknown
1804ref. s703.081GB: J. Stockdale and Others 1804. 180 x 107mm. Full leather. Spines have gold rules and brown leather title labels missing on Vol 4 and stamped 1 2 3 4. Some brown stains to edges of endpapers and first and last few leaves. All joints and hinges worn and/or cracked and most covers only holding by 2 or 3 strings.Rear cover detached of Vol 1. Vol 3 lacks rear endpaper. Frontispiece of vol 2 has small closed tear and minor repair to inner margin. Frontispiece of Vol 4 has minor loss to leading margin. Each book is signed "Cecilia Isabella Losh" on front endpaper with the date added in Volume 1 "Feby 3d 1811". Othewise fairly clean tight texts. Volume 4 has minor loss towards base of spine. Sold as a good working set but in need of some repair to covers etc. . Hardback. Good. J. Stockdale and Others Hardcover
1798ref. GT225Montrose: Da. Buchanan 1798. third edition . Hardback. Vg. 8vo. vi 350pp. Engraved frontispiece. Pub. full calf incomplete spine label. Head and tail of the spine worn but a sound copy. A scarce imprint the first being published in London by A. Millar London. 1796. Da. Buchanan hardcover
1787ref. 018643Dublin: W. Watson W. Colies J. Exshaw L. White R. Burton P. Wogan H. Whitestone J. Cash P. Byrne W. Porter C. Lewis J. Jones J. Moore 1787. Full-Leather. Good. Full leather over boards. The cover is edgeworn with rubbing to the leather. The binding is good. There is light foxing in the text. W. Watson, W. Colies, J. Exshaw, L. White, R. Burton, P. Wogan, H. Whitestone, J. Cash, P. Byrne, W. Porter, C. Lewis, J. Jon hardcover
1841ref. E15733Philadelphia: J. Crissy 1841. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. First American edition translated from the French. Small 8vo in yellow paper covered boards printed in pale green. 143 pp. Illustrated title page and with 10 additional full page engravings decorated capitals. Scarce. Good only most of the spine strip lacking and covers well soiled and corners rounded. Contemporary presentation inscription on the first front blank. J. Crissy hardcover
1847ref. 61901viii 248 pages complete with 6 plates plus woodcuts in the text English translation" Published by T. Allman hardcover
ref. B9781013874659Hardback. New. hardcover
ref. B9781014072924Paperback / softback. New. paperback
1789ref. 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
1845ref. 018666UK: T Allman 1845. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good . 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. New Edition 1845. Illustrated with small woodcuts. Lovely little miniature book. Bound in the original cloth. Book is good and quite bright. Light edge rubbing. Boardsmarked in places espeically on the front. Contents quite good. Endpaper with blank paper attached. More images can be taken upon request. Ref14846 T Allman hardcover
1873ref. 035871London: T. Cadell and P. Elmsley 1873. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Bound in full leather with gilt title on a little red title plate and "I" on a little green title plate on the spine. Neat and firm it has been professionally restored at some point. Hinge and text block firm no inscriptions end papers have been replaced. Pages smooth and clean age-toned. A very good and well preserved little book. T. Cadell and P. Elmsley hardcover
1799ref. 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
1799ref. 171London: Printed for John Stockdale Piccadilly. 1799. Later printing. 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. books
1795ref. 013903NY: Printed by W. Durell 1795. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Early US edition the first printed in 1794. Contemporary full calf 8vo 6 259. A variety of juvenile names in period cursive front and rears in pencil and gift inscription in adult hand in ink on the fly dated January 2 1796 evidently to the original owner "Frances Lydy Wentworth .as a New Years Gift" with Fanny's bookplate Portsmouth on front pastedown. Calf naturally worn with chipped red leather title label at spine. Short side tears to leaves in first signature; the fly has a deeper tear which has been stitched. . Still solidly bound. Arnaud Berquin 1747 - 1791 was a French children's author. This book for which he is best known was first published in France in 1782 as "L'Ami des Enfans" then translated roughly into English by Mary Stockdale and published by her father John Stockdale in London in 1787. Although "Looking Glass" in the Anglicized title invariably recalls Lewis Carroll's Alice Berquin's stories consisted of events that might happen to children in their everyday lives-they did not contain fairy tales or other imaginative literature. Printed by W. Durell hardcover
1825ref. z09605New York: Evert Duyckinck 1825. Later edition. Hardcover. Good. 1825. Later edition. Hardcover in full contemporary calf with gilt and morocco title. 216pp illustrated with wood engravings by Alexander Anderson. Good. Lacks front endpapers. Small chip to morocco label. Shallow loss to spine head. Front inner hinge neatly repaired. Ownership signatures to front and rear pastedown. Foxing through out. Contents remain intact and the binding sound. Housed in mylar. Includes morality tales based around the strength of family ties for children translated from the original French work by Arnaud Berquin. Evert Duyckinck hardcover
ref. 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
1814ref. 159456London 1814. hardcover. very good. 74 charming woodcuts by I. Bewick. 16mo occasional foxing full diced blue calf gilt ornamented spine. London: John Harris 1814. Very good. Translated from "L'Ami des Enfans". In the stories "virtue is constantly represented as the fountain of happiness and vice as the source of every evil." unknown
1848ref. 70609Baltimore Md.: T. Newton Kurtz No. 151 Pratt Street 1848. One of four Baltimore editions 1844-1848. 24mo. 216 pp. Many in-text illustrations. "Thirty-seven eighteenth-century stories in which virtue always triumphs over vice and hardship" OCLC. All four of the editions are uncommon. Original embossed green cloth gilt spine title and decorations. Scattered foxing else very good. T. Newton Kurtz, No. 151 Pratt Street unknown
1827ref. 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
1794ref. 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
1787ref. 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
