Delightful collection of highly illustrated scarce and very scarce works on the children's craft of paper cutting.
Lovely collection of four scarce and very scarce illustrated volumes on paper cutting for children, including two first editions.
Collection comprised of:1924 Paper Cutting by Annye Allison - first edition;[1933] Paper Cutting for Young Children by Margaret Grice;[1937] Colour and Design in Paper Cutting by A.
Turnbull - first edition;[1939] Cut Paper Work by Christabel Russell Cox.
In publisher's original cloth bindings, Colour and Design in Paper Cutting being quarter cloth with paper-backed boards.
Paper Cutting for Young Children, Colour and Design in Paper Cutting and Cut Paper Work all undated, dated from copies held by the British Library.
Cut Paper Work contains ten double-sided plates, four of which are in colour.
Collated, complete.
Paper Cutting contains a colour frontispiece and 177 illustrations, including sixty-two double-sided plates, seven of which are in colour.
Paper Cutting for Young Children contains thirty-six colour designs and further black-and-white diagrams in text.
Colour and Design in Paper Cutting contains twenty-seven pages of designs, four of which are in colour, and two tipped-in templates to the rear of the work.
A range of ideas and designs on implementing the activity, paper cutting, particularly in a classroom setting.
Written by various leaders of art and education, each with practical experience in teaching the craft.
In publisher's original cloth bindings, Colour and Design in Paper Cutting being quarter cloth with paper-backed boards.
Two tipped-in templates to the rear of Colour and Design in Paper Cutting.
Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing and the odd mark or crease.
Internally, firmly bound.
Paper Cutting for Young Children lacking front endpapers.
Bright and clean with the occasional spot throughout, heavier to the first and last few pages Very Good Indeed