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Abbott Jacob.ABAA

Fire-side piety or the duties and enjoyments of family religion: containing Part I. Come to Prayer Part II. Home made happy

Lansing Alfred A. Alexander Anderson Jacob Maas Milton F. HarrisonABAA

Galaxy of Comicalities.

1833262Lansing Alfred A. Alexander Anderson Jacob Maas Milton F. Harrison Galaxy of Comicalities Philadelphia: Printed by Lesher & Shelly No. 303 Callowhill St. at $1.25 per annum in advance 1833. Twelve Issues: Volume 1: Nos. 1 â€“ 12. These are twelve issues of only forty printed between October 2 1833 and July 5 1834. Galaxy of Comicalities is said to be the first illustrated comic periodical printed in America. Issue 11 December 11 1833 contains a review of Sketches and Eccentricities of Colonel David Crockett of East sic Tennessee. Crockett 1786 â€“ 1836 a consummate self-promoter was the subject of numerous books. Life and Adventures of Colonel David Crockett of West Tennessee a spurious biography not authorized by Crockett was published in 1833 and reprinted later in the same year under the more accurate title of Sketches and Eccentricities of Colonel David Crockett of West Tennessee. Galaxy of Comicalities was a racist publication characteristic of humor during the Andrew Jackson administration. Mocking people of color during their "days off" writing in racial dialect and making sexist jokes about women this short-lived publication was intended for a semi-literate reader or listener sympathetic to the publishers' racist views. The editorial standard is as execrable as the spelling and views expressed. Illustrated with woodcuts of a similarly pejorative nature. Condition of this rare worn and dis-bound surviving set: Issue 1 old repairs to page edges tear repair to page 1 slight text loss on p. 2; issue 2 repair to worn margins; issue 3 old tear repair to title-page margin repairs with text loss repair patch with text from another source p. 10; issue 4 margin repairs significant text loss; issue 5 good condition no repairs; issue 6 good condition no repairs; issue 7 text loss of a few words to three lines of one page; issue 8 good condition; issue 9 good condition; issue 10 margin repairs loss of few words on one page; issue 11 margin repairs text loss of a few letters on one page; issue 12 old tear repair. All twelve copies have browned with some spotting to the laid paper.Housed in a folder with the ownership tag of Richard S. Wormser. Mr. Wormser a former president of the International League of Antiquarian Book Sellers and the Antiquarian Book Sellers Association of America was a member of the Grolier Club the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester Mass. the Club of Odd Volumes of Boston and the Old Book Table of New York. Lesher & Shelly, No. 303 Callowhill St. books

G.Gosen Rare Books & Old Paper, ABAA, ILAB · États-Unis3 500,00 $US≈ 2 961,35 €

Grimm Jacob Ludwig Karl and Wilhelm Carl. Illustrated by George CruikshankABAA

German Popular Stories Translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen Collected by M.M. Grimm from Oral Tradition. Including: Snow White Cinderella Rumpelstiltskin Hansel and Gretel and Sleeping Beauty.

1826118064London: C. Baldwyn 1823; James Robins 1826. First edition first issue in English of both volumes of Grimms' famous fairy tales including Snow White Cinderella Rumpelstiltskin Hansel and Gretel and Sleeping Beauty. With the first state of the engraved title page of Volume I without the umlaut in the word Marchen "later issues of the first edition of Volume I had the umlauts inserted"-- Quayle 38. Vol. II with the half-title and advertisements. Small octavo bound in full scarlet crushed morocco by Riviere & Sons with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles all edges gilt illustrated with with two engraved title pages and 20 full-page etchings by George Cruikshank. German Popular Stories was Cruikshank's first illustrated book. Following the success of this work he illustrated the works of his friend Charles Dickens. Translated by Edgar Taylor. From the library of banker and rare book collector Frederick Stanhope Peck with his bookplate to the pastedown. Laid in is an original bill of sale from Parke-Bernet Galleries dated April 21-22nd 1947. In fine condition. An exceptional example with noted provenance as these have been in a private collection since the 1940s. As early as 1805 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm began collecting German popular tales. They published the first and second volumes of Kinder-und Hausmarchen in 1812 and 1814. Its publication brought immediate and worldwide fame to the brothers Grimm and provided the foundation for their influential and groundbreaking studies in German philology and grammar PMM 281. The 1823 edition in English of German Popular Stories was the "first anywhere to be fully illustrated" as well as the first to truly target children Darton 216. Moreover the English translation by Edgar Taylor and his relatives "revolutionized the conventional English attitude to fairy tales and rehabilitated fantasy as generally acceptable reading-matter for the young. The Cruikshank illustrations which the Grimms themselves admired remain inextricably associated with the tales" and are considered among his best works Carpenter & Prichard 230. They have been called "the first real kindly agreeable and infinitely amusing and charming illustrations for a child's book in England" Charles Welsh. Among other famous Grimm tales these volumes contain "Rumpel-Stilts-Kin" "Snow-Drop" Snow White "Rose-Bud" Sleeping Beauty "Tom Thumb" "Hansel and Gretel" "The Golden Goose" "The Frog-Prince" and "Ashputtel" Cinderella. C. Baldwyn, 1823; James Robins unknown books

Raptis Rare Books · États-Unis15 000,00 $US≈ 12 691,50 €

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