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19185087London: Cyril Beaumont 1918. First edition. First edition. 7 x 9 1/4 inches. ONE OF ONLY TEN COPIES Printed on Papier Chine and Signed by the Artist this is Copy #2 and another forty unsigned copies were printed on Van Gelder paper. Original color-printed pictorial boards with interpretive circular illustration and design elements and decorative stamped spine in colors. With original red silk stitching at spine interface to cover. Endpapers with delightful repeating blossom pattern in green yellow blue and red. WITH SIXTEEN SUPERB FULL-PAGE LINOCUT ILLUSTRATIONS BY EDGARD TIJTGAT each printed in two states one in color and the other in red-brown. Born Edgard Tytgat 1879-1957 in Brussels the artist was immensely popular on the Continent as a critic cited: "Tytgat pulled out all the visual stops to retell myths legends and fairy tales in his paintings and prints. Like the filmmakers of his time he depicted a world full of imagination absurdity and humour. TytgatÃs ëfairy talesà bring back to life and show a wide range of emotions." Somewhat soiled and scratched spine chipped and toned. Internally generally clean; scattered and uneven foxing minor toning other minor scattered wear. A lovely version of Perrault's popular tale combining avant-garde and folk-art styles. No other copies located in the marketplace. Housed in attractive quarter green morocco box raised bands gilt spine superbly marbled side boards and felt-lined by Sean Eric Rios. Cyril Beaumont unknown books
04706Sussex: 1933. A Wonderful Pen and Ink Drawing from Arthur Rackham's Little Red Riding Hood.<br/><br/>RACKHAM Arthur artist. "Put the cake and the little pot of butter upon the bread-bin and come and lie down with me." Sussex 1933. <br/><br/>Original pen-and-ink drawing signed "A Rackham" on lower left-hand corner for the full-page drawing on page 275 in the The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1933. <br/><br/>Image size: 4 3/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 112 x 157 mm. Matted framed and glazed 15 7/8 x 13 5/8 inches; 404 x 346 mm.<br/><br/>This wonderfully executed pen and ink drawing depicts the moment when Little Red Riding Hood sees the wolf dressed up as her Grandmother. The wolf is in her Grandmother's bed and tells Little Red Riding Hood to "Put the cake and the little pot of butter upon the bread-bin and come and lie down with me". Of course the rest is history !!<br/><br/>The wolf is dressed in a mop cap wearing glasses and hiding behind the curtains of the bed. Grandmother's slippers are sitting neatly on the floor by the bed and next to the bed there is a candle and a bowl on a small table. Little Riding Hood is dressed in her riding hood holding some flowers she has picked for her Grandmother and carrying a large basket with the pot of butter sticking out of it.<br/><br/>As always Rackham has created a moment in time - one which is universally recognized.<br/><br/>"Little Red Riding Hood" is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Its origins can be traced back to the 10th century to several European folk tales including one from Italy called The False Grandmother Italian: La finta nonna later written among others by Italo Calvino in the Italian Folk Tales collection. The best known versions were written by Charles Perrault and then later by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Arthur Rackham chose the original Charles Perrault version.<br/><br/>The Moral of the Story. Children especially attractive well bred young ladies should never talk to strangers for if they should do so they may well provide dinner for a wolf. [Sussex]: , 1933 unknown books
167144411Paris: S. Mabre-Cramoisy for Imprimerie Royale 1671. <p>Perrault Claude 1613-88. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux. Bound with: Picard Jean-Félix 1620-82. Mesure de la terre. 12 91 1; 2 30 2pp. Frontispiece and 14 plates by Sébastien LeClerc Mémoires; 5 plates Mesure. With: Perrault. Suite des mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des animaux. 4 93-205 3pp. 15 engraved plates by LeClerc. Together 3 works in 2 vols. double folio. Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1671-76. 561 x 403 mm. Mottled calf ca. 1676 rebacked arms of Louis XIV in gilt on front and back covers light wear edge of Vol. II back cover a little bumped. A few leaves creased light marginal dampstains on 2 or 3 plates but very good. 19th century armorial bookplate; bookplate of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow.</p> <p> First Editions. Perrault was the leader of a team of comparative anatomists that included Guichard Joseph Duverney Jean Pecquet Moyse Charas and Philippe de la Hire; they were often called the "Parisians" in contemporary literature because of their membership in the Académie Royale des Sciences. Their investigations began with a thresher shark and lion from the royal menagerie and went on to encompass forty-nine vertebrate species. "Although some of the discoveries on which the Parisians most prided themselves—including the nictitating membrane that Perrault first observed in a cassowary the external lobation of the kidneys in the bear and the castoreal glands of the beaver—had been observed earlier no such detailed and exact descriptions and illustrations had been published before" Dictionary of Scientific Biography. In the spirit of rationalism Perrault and his team investigated and debunked many popular myths attached to certain species such as the legend that salamanders live in fire or that chameleons subsist on air. They also recorded their methods of work along with their results providing the only contemporary disclosure of how such anatomical research was conducted in the seventeenth century.</p> <p> The Mémoires were originally issued in two parts in 1671 and 1676 as in our copy; they were later reissued in 1676 with slight changes as one volume with a new title-leaf. The two volumes of the Mémoires contain descriptions of twenty-nine species including the lion the chameleon the shark the lynx the porcupine the eagle the cormorant and the ostrich. Our copy was bound for presentation by Louis XIV patron of the Académie des Sciences; a significant portion of the edition was bound this way. </p> <p>Vol. I of our copy also includes the first edition of Jean-Félix Picard's Mesure de la terre 1671 which contains the first reasonably accurate calculation of the size of the Earth. Picard based his calculation on his measurements of a degree of latitude along the Paris meridian. Using sophisticated instruments Picard obtained a value for the Earth's polar radius of 6328.9 kilometers only 0.44% below the correct value of 6357 km.; his results were thirty to forty times more precise than any that had been obtained previously. Dibner Heralds of Science 84. Norman 1687 Perrault.</p> . S. Mabre-Cramoisy for Imprimerie Royale unknown books
