Juvenile Anonymous (6 results)

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Small Octavo. Original red cloth, gilt lettering on front cover. Book of narratives, interviews, and instructions for the encouragement of young Mormons / Latter-day Saints. Very good, signatures slightly loosened from spine.

** USA Customers Please Note: We ship via Canada Post & USPS. We process and pay all customs fees before shipping; there will be no Import Charges, Brokerage Fees or Tariffs on any Items purchased from us. ** (illustrator). Small octavo, original decorative green cloth stamped in black & gold. Pp [1]-[4], 5-80; [1] - [4], 5-80 [two seperately paginated works bound together] inserted frontispiece to first part consisting of a tipped in engraving mounted on a decorative background printed in green. Browning to endpapers, slight discolouration to covers in spots; a Very Good clean copy. Christian morality tales showing children the proper way to conduct oneself through life. Full title of the second part reads "The History of Ann and Her Eleven Sisters: Displaying The Various Adventures They Encountered In Their Travels". The Publisher operated at this address between 1874 and 1883; see Brown: London Publishers and Printers, c. 1800-1870; p. 129. Earlier chapbook editions exist of the first part; the second part seems to be a comparable tale written for young girls.

First edition. Quite uncommon juvenile in attractive, early cloth binding. Basically a collection of morals told by a group of friends taking a rest from their labors in the field on a hot day. Angels, dreams, pets, siblings, conscience, and all other manners of conduct young people should be familiar with. OCLC locates 5 holdings. 12mo, [3], 107pp. Frontis. Original brown, textured cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Former owner's inscription to ffep, endpapers and preliminaries lightly foxed and with some staining. Boards gently rubbed at corners and spine ends with some toning. Nearly fine.

Condition: Poor. 64mo (70 x 55 mm). Homemade binding, cloth spine (loosening, front cover perished); back cover: board covered with glazed paper, present on the pastedown inside (detaching) but the glazed paper on the outside is torn away. VERY WORN (see the 44 IMAGES on our website), the back cover becoming unstable but all the leaves are attached. Preserved in a fine cloth case which is perfectly fitted to allow the manuscript to be correctly removed and completely protected. HIGHLY CURIOUS LILLIPUTIAN ALBUM CONTAINING JUVENILE DRAWINGS OF THE MOST UNLIKELY ASSEMBLAGE OF UNDER-REPRESENTED PEOPLES, NAMELY AFRICANS, NATIVE AMERICANS, AND ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS, ALL DEPICTED IN THEIR NATIVE HABITATS AND INDIGENOUS ATTIRE. We have never encountered a manuscript such as this one, either in permanent collections on in the trade. Our album contains 41 colored drawings and b/w sketches on 35 leaves, with a number of blanks bound in. They include: AFRICANS: 28 drawings and b/w sketches, including hunting scenes (some on horseback); nude and partially clothed Africans; African landscapes with lions, tigers, and great birds (some devouring each other); an African child being saved from a tiger by an angel; and a man and woman dancing in a garden; three Africans cultivating grapes; several Africans fighting, and much more. Some of the drawings feature palm trees and rounded huts. The caption on one of the drawings reads "In die Jagt" (sic). NATIVE AMERICANS: 9 drawings and b/w sketches, including hunting scenes with the hunters in full headdress with feathers; in one of the drawings a group of three men are in combat with a tiger who leaps from a large tree. Interestingly, some of the drawings likewise feature palm trees. The caption on one of the drawings reads "Zweiter Theil vom dem Ameriganer oder Idianer." ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS: 4 drawings and b/w sketches, the most remarkable being a scene of two men seated beneath a tree, a large dinosaur bird flies immediately above, and in the sky a peaceful sun sees all. The caption on one of the drawings reads "Dritter Theil von dem Australiener." GNOME: 1 b/w sketch. The gnome wears a backpack and carries a gnarled walking stick, his conical hat bearing a heart-shaped ornament, in the background a laughing sun peers over the horizon. That Parts II and III have a divisional title suggests that there were one or more leaves at the beginning of Part I as well, now no longer extant. Nonetheless, this is a fascinating little children's manuscript and remains A REMARKABLE SURVIVAL. CATALOGUER'S NOTE: We are grateful to Dr. Claudia Bubenik for helping us transcribe the juvenile German inscriptions.

EARLY EDITION circa 1831-1837, 175 x 105 mm, 6¾ x 4¼ inches, yellow printed stiff card covers, vignette to lower cover of boy with stick inside wreath of vine leaves, publisher's adverts inside lower cover, titles numbered 1-60. Hand coloured frontispiece, 16 attractive half-page hand-coloured illustrations, 8-line verse below each, printed 1 side only. Spine worn and partly oversewn, corners worn and rounded, blotchy pale brown staining all over covers, pale inscription to upper cover dated 1837, stitching a little slack, 2 old inscriptions on verso frontispiece. Margins slightly fingered, contents generally nice. Acceptable copy of early juvenile. Moon 142 (5), first published by John Harris in this format in 1820. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 96 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.22 inches. This item is printed on demand.