Search Results: Titles starting with A from Thulin & Ohlson Antiqbookseller since 1918

New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1966 164, [5] pages. plates and illistrations in color by Toulouse-Lautrec. frontispiece portraiting Toulouse-Lautrec. Boards are in good condition, just lightly worn and with some dirty edges. Removed stamp on front end paper. Interior otherwise in very good condition.

London : Dean & Son, 1885 London. Dean & Son, Circa 1885. 9 chromolithographies (wrappers + 7 chromolithographies) and 6 lithographies.

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"One of the first publishers of children's books to enter the field of movables, the London-based company Dean and Son created fanciful and charming pages, some featuring anthropomorphized animals. Stiff and sober as the Dean characters appear to modern eyes, there is a playful element in these scenes indicative of a relatively new trend in juvenile books in the nineteenth century. As children's book historian F. J. Harvey Darton has noted, these works aimed at providing amusement and pleasure for children, rather than simply serving as tools for instruction. Interestingly, however much these books delight children with their advanced technology, they firmly reinforce the moral and social context of the day. Dean and Son produced about fifty movables in the last half of the nineteenth century, making the publishing company the… Read More

Berlin,: Spener, 1799