Milano (Milan), Italy: Raffaello Bertieri, 1940. large 4to. stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. 6 Volumes, Text in Italian. Union List 4, 3684. Issues: Year XXXXVII, No. 1, dated July 31, 1940; No. 2, dated August 31, 1940; No. 3, dated September 30, 1940; No. 4, dated October 31, 1940; No. 6, dated December 31, 1940; and No. 7, dated January 31, 1941. The graphic arts review edited by Raffaello Bertieri, director of the famous Scuola...
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2006. 9 x 12 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 320 pages. 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...
