Product Description
a First edition.In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper.Featuring 225 illustrations, including fifty-four plates, in both colour and black and white. Collated, complete.Featuring the essay "The First Flourishing of Children's Books" by renowned British historian Sir John Harold Plumb.An expansive reference work on the Early Children's Books collection at the Pierpont Morgan Library. With a preface by prominent art director Charles Ryskamp. The main body of text is from Gerald Gottlieb, Curator of Early Children's Books at the library. In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely condition with only slight bumping and rubbing and one or two marks. Dust wrapper suffers from marginally heavier shelf wear, including a few small closed tears to edges and more noticeable discolouration. Internally, firmly bound. Very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine
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