Order Nr. 78163 ALTE DEUTSCHE KINDERBÜCHER, MIT BIBLIOGRAPHIE UND EINHUNDERTFÜNFZIG BILDTAFELN. Arthur Rümann.

ALTE DEUTSCHE KINDERBÜCHER, MIT BIBLIOGRAPHIE UND EINHUNDERTFÜNFZIG BILDTAFELN.

(Children’s' Books).
  • Vienna: Herbert Reichner, 1937.
  • 8vo.
  • cloth
  • 102+(1) pages plus 368 leaves of plates

Price: $20.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 78163

First edition (Besterman 1306). Numbered (but not limited) edition. Boards faded and slightly warped, spine lightly sunned. Ink signature to front free endpaper, interior age-toned. The front panel of the original dust jacket (age-toned and edgeworn) is laid in. Bibliography of German children's literature, especially from the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. 368 entries. Color plates interspersed through introductory chapters; black-and-white plates grouped at the back. Plates include story illustrations, full-page facsimiles, title pages and frontispieces. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.