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BE MERRY AND WISE: ORIGINS OF CHILDREN'S BOOK PUBLISHING IN ENGLAND, 1650-1850
Alderson, Brian & Felix de Marez Oyens
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When was it that someone decided that books might be written and published for child readers? It's fair to say that some kinds of text-alphabets, fables, the Lord's Prayer, may have been seen as fundamental to the process of learning to read from the beginning of book making, but when did children come to be seen as a readership for whom special provision should be made? The child as the audience for books in the English language is the subject of this bibliographical study, which had its origins in an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. From this beginning, Felix de Marez Oyens and Brian Alderson have compiled Be Merry and Wise and shown how certain creative talents, driven by a sense of purpose, or a wish to make some money, attempted to appeal directly to children, and how the publishing industry came to realize that this audience might prove to constitute a profitable market.
In conducting their survey, which is centered upon the books themselves, mostly drawn from the holdings of the Morgan Library, the authors not only plot the chronological development of children's book publishing from almost random beginnings to the diversity of the early Victorian period, they also show how publishers adapted their trade methods to exploit this new market. Sweetness and light did not prevail everywhere, but, even in some of the most forbidding examples presented here, there was a commercial optimism that both merriment and wisdom might be happily combined, within the pages of children's literature. Co-published with the Pierpont Morgan Library, The Bibliographical Society of America, and The British Library.
Sales rights: North and South America; available elsewhere from The British Library.
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UNDER THE SURFACE; WITH TEN ORIGINAL SAMPLES OF MARBLED P...
by Sönmez, Nedim
This book has been produced in a limited edition of 19 copies, containing 10 original tipped-in samples of marbled pictures of the underwater world's nature, marbled on "de geerts" paper: made in old paper tradition of holland, mouldmade, four deckle-edges, watermarked with crown and "1625."
Octopus - Dolphin - Whale - Seahorse - Tropical fish - Shark - Moray eel - Swordfish - Squid & Jellyfish - Sea turtle
Text by Nedim Sönmez in English. Format 27 x 42 cm. 15 sheets with 10 original samples of marbled pictures 23 x 35 cm. All pictures signed by hand.
Five photographs from this book are attached to this mail.
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