BAYARD, émileLivre Rare Book
Comic Nursey Tales Bluebeard; Jack the Giant Killer; The Crystal Palace that Fox Built
70084London: Wm S. Orr and Co.; London: David Bogue c.1851. Humour FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo 17 x 13cm pp.2; 47; 5; 59; 1; 30. With numerous plates and in-text illustrations by multiple artists includes frontispieces. First two tales with colour-printed title pages. Contemporary olive-green half morocco matching textured cloth over boards. Gilt titles to upper board and spine with raised bands and further gilt embellishment to spine. Edges speckled blue and red. Spotting to preliminaries and endpapers sunning to spine bumping to corners wearing to leather at edges. Very Good. A unique text comprised of three separate editions perhaps combined by the binder or the owner. The first two stories are undated though 'The Crystal Palace' is a first printing published in 1851. Two classic fairy tales and one contemporary one inspired by the Great Exhibition. London: Wm S. Orr and Co.; London: David Bogue, c.1851 unknown
Adrian Harrington Rare Books · Royaume-Uni250,00 £GB≈ 285,45 €
