1824 82 (3 results)

orig. wrappers Rubbed. Name inked on cover. Foxed. Good. 18x12cm, 56 pp, A small waterstain to side page margins. Text entirely in Danish. "The Scandinavian Future of Art". Discussion of Nordic national ideals in art by the editor of "Literairt Maanedskrift" ( Hertz was later a prominent drama translator who introduced Wagner's operas to Copenhagen). Rubbed. Name inked on cover. Foxed. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Limited Edition. "One hundred proof copies, printed for subscribers by Julius Bien, lithographer, for Hurd & Houghton, publishers, 401 Broadway New York." Large quarto. (2)pp. with 15 mounted lithographs, printed in black and sepia ink, tissue-guards. Hardcover, bound in original brown cloth. The front board and preliminary leaves damp stained; ripple and a few blemishes to the plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Lithographed & Printed by Julius Bien. 24 Vesey St., New York. [Five Pigs]: 1866 [1866]; [Mother Hubbard]: 1865 [1865]; [Jack Built]: 1866 [1865]; [Fox/Geese]: 1865 [1864]. Five parts bound in one volume, all lithographed by Julius Bien. Size of the binding: 7 ½ in. x 9 5/8 in., five parts bound together, with the dates of 1865 & 1866 on the title-pages, and copyright dates as recorded above. Frog he would a wooing Go: [light blue thick paper sheet], printed title-page, with circular lithographic design, followed by [16] unnumbered pages, with 15 illustrations printed back-to-back, on tan or tan/gray backgrounds; [brown thick paper sheet, added by binder], The Five Little Pigs, printed title-page with circular design, followed by [14] unnumbered pages with 14 illustrations; [light blue thick paper sheet], Old Mother Hubbard, printed title-page, with circular design, followed by [14] unnumbered pages with 14 illustrations; [lacking the thick paper separator page, which has been torn out]; The House that Jack Built, printed title page, with circular design, followed by [14] unnumbered pages with 14 illustrations; [brown thick paper sheet], The Fox and The Geese, printed title-page with circular design, followed by [14] unnumbered pages with 14 illustrations. All the images are printed on various light-toned tan, yellow-tan or gray backgrounds, with text in yellow-tan. The plate with illustrations 9 & 10 in the Frog title, shows a two-inch vertical tear to the lower margin of the page/plate, not within the image. The plate margins show a few tan spots, fingermarks, light dusting, splitting or small tears along the gutter. Quarter-bound with light brown, polished calf on the spine, sides, and corner-pieces, with two raised bands on the spine, and a red morocco leather title label, near the top of the spine, gilt-lettered: NURSERY RHYMES, with other gilt decorations to the spine compartments, blind-stamped borders to sides & corner-pieces, with tan and yellow marbled paper over boards, and matching marbled paper endpapers, blue marbled design on the book edges. Printed bookseller's label on the back marbled paste-down: Henry K. Van Siclen Bibliopole 95 Fifth Avenue N.Y. The inner hinges are cracked with some separation from the backing within the book, and between the parts, with wear and rubbing to the leather surfaces of the covers, damp stains (from a drinking glass) to the marbled paper on the front cover, tears, splits to flyleaves. A total of 71 Bien lithographic illustrations of H. L. Stephens' very detailed drawings which feature many 19th century costume, and other details, and five Stephens' lithographic designs on the title-pages (which are not repeated in individual parts). Some of these nursery rhymes have some political & social satire evident in the drawings, with some ethnic stereotyping, and anti-immigration details present in The House that Jack Built, the versions of the rhymes (Five Little Pigs), are not always the now familiar ones. The various titles/parts are listed in Sinclair Hamilton's: Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers 1670-1870 (Volumes 1 & 2). The Library of Congress entry shows a two volume, 1866 Hurd & Houghton publication of Nursery Rhymes, described as having mounted plates Rare item. Not many individual titles in their original boards, or the titles bound together (this one, possibly for bookseller Henry K. Van Siclen), seem to have survived. Sold as an illustrated item only, with the defects as noted above.