Children's Books Old and Rare: Catalogue Number One by Editor-Walter Schatzki - 1974-06

Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1974 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. Large 8vo. (10) 46 (1) pp, New Forward by Leslie Shepard, ABC-Books and Primers; The Orbis Pictus; The Bible; Poetry -- Nursery Rhymes; Fairy Tales and Fables; Shakespeare, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver, and Don Quixote; The Moral Tale; The Picture Story; Juvenile Fiction; Games and Sports; History and Geography; Natural History; Periodicals and Almanacs; Miscellaneous; (The American Woodcut); (Fashions and Costumes); Books About Children's Books; index with b&w plates throughout. Reprint of the 1941 edition published in New York by the author. Only the faintest wear to corner tips, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine,and green decorative endpapers..

Detroit, Gale Research Company 1974. (portrait, 6) 46 (2) p. (+ XVI leaves of plates) Bound in the publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt title spine and decorated front cover (In good condition. Facsimile of the edition by Walter Schatzki published at New York in 1899.)