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1.	BEAUCLERK, LADY DIANA, ILLUSTRATOR] DRYDEN, JOHN: FABLES AMCIENT AND 
MODERN. ORNAMENTED EITH ENGRAVINGS FROM THE PENCIL OF LADY DIANA BEAUCLERK. 
London...T. Bensley for J Edwards...E. Harding...1797, Folio XVIII, 41Pp. 8 
FP Pls. + 8 headpieces. First Edition of these illustrations. The eldest 
daughter of the Duke of Marlborough; she was Lady Bolingbroke, was painted 
by Reynolds and knew Samuel Johnson.  Her painting was much praised by 
Horace Walpole and by Reynolds. For Walpole's  "The Mysterious Mother" she 
did seven large drawings that he hung on Indian Damask in a room at 
Strawberry Hill called the "Beauclerk closet".  Her drawings are engraved 
by Vandenburg and Cheesman, 8 Vig. headpieces by Bartolozzi, after 
Harding.  The whole is printed in a variety of fine fonts in the best 
English  neoclassicizing taste of the period. As an illustrator, she 
executed two commissions, in her picturesque, neoclassic style.  Boase (P. 
14) describes them as "Romantic".  RLin finds 14 copies of her other book, 
9 of this one.  This is the more  impressive piece of work. The fables 
illustrated are: Palamon and Arcite: or, The Knight's tale [from 
Chaucer]--Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace.--The cock and the fox: 
or, The tale of the Nun's Priest, from Chaucer.--Theodore and Honoria, from 
Boccace.--The flower and the leaf: or, The lady in the arbour.--The Wife of 
Bath's tale [from Chaucer]--Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace.~ Original 
calf, rebacked, marbled end papers, bookplate of Lord Carrington. Slight 
offsetting, OW a lovely copy. $875.00

2.	[BOYLE, ELEANOR VERE, ILLUSTRATOR]:  FAIRY TALES BY HANS CHRISTIAN 
ANDERSON. Illustrated by 10 large designs in colour after original drawings 
by E.V.B. Newly translated by H.L.D.[Harry Leigh Douglas] Ward and Augusta 
Plesner ...  New York, Scribner & Welford, ND,1880[?].  vi, 76 Pp. col. 
ill. 32 cm.  Half-title. E.V. B. is the Honorable Eleanor Vere 
Boyle.[Gordon]. Besides being an excellent translation, this edition 
features the lovely illustrations which are Pre-Raphaelite in quality 
of  the Hon. Eleanor Vere Boyle, wife of the Reverend Richard Boyle lived 
in the Maidenhead area and exhibited figure subjects at the Grosvenor 
Gallery and elsewhere from 1878-81. She Illustrateded  many children's 
books using the initials EVB. Most of them were printed in color by chromo- 
lithography, as here,  by Emrik & Singer, Chromolith. East London. See 
Dictionary of Victorian Painters.  Original glazed, pictorial boards, 
showing another design not repeated within, corners worn, inner rear hinge 
repaired. Inscribed on the Fr. Fr. EP "Miss Lizzie Mullan Christmas 1885" 
in a large round hand. ]. Both the English and this American issue are 
rare. Unnoted by OCLC,  Melvyl, CIC, H, Y, KVK, NYPL, BL,  COPAC, Opie, 
Osborne[ the last four lacking the English Edition]. An About Very Good 
copy.  $750.00

3.	[KIOSAI, KAWANABE]Daughter of the famous independent]~CONDER, JOSIAH~ 
THE FLOWERS OF JAPAN AND THE FLORAL ART OF ARRANGEMENT. ~Tokyo, 1891, 
Folio, 136Pp. + 5Pls., + 14 FP color woodblock prints + Vigs. First 
Edition. he enlarged, authoritative text by Conder was much reprinted: 6 FP 
color plates, flower viewing by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi [died in 1892], Four 
plates of interiors with flowers and figures by Kawanabe Kiosui, daughter 
of Kiosai, (or Kyosai) famous independent noted in Mitchell, Toda, Etc. for 
illustrated books. These may be her only book illustrations, although she 
was known as a painter. Conder wrote a biography of Kiosai, his closeness 
to the family may account for them. Remaining plates in color show flower 
arrangements. Rare except in 2nd Ed. of 1899, in hard cover, new plates by 
Gekko, a Shijo artist who died in 1920. ~Color woodblock stiff wraps, after 
Yoshitoshi, rubbed, these dusty with a little very light water stain, wear, 
OW VG.~ $1,475.00

4.	LESLIE, ELIZA] : THE CHILD'S PRESENT. : ILLUSTRATED BY EMBLEMATIC 
FIGURES.   Boston: : Munroe &  Francis. : J.H. Francis, 128 Washington- 
Street, Boston. ; New-York: : C.S. Francis & Co., [between 1838 
-1840?].,   64 p. : ill. ; 15 cm. In yellow printed, decorative and 
pictorial wraps.   Contains excerpts from Eliza Leslie's "The mirror,"  and 
from Jane Taylor's "Original poems for infant minds." The book mentions 
"Parley's magazine, 1838" on p. [2]. J.H. Francis was listed at 128 
Washington St. in the Boston directories for 1836 to 1851, however a 
collected book which included our book as one of 4  titles, called "The 
Little Child's Book,"  appeared in 1840 [1 Loc. At OCLC].  One further copy 
of the collection printed in 1863 by James Miller, M. & F.'s successor is 
known.  Some wood engravings signed  by Alonzo Hartwell; "M;" and Abel 
Bowen.   This is a picture book for children, and unlike the only noted 
copy [at MWA] it is hand colored throughout by the publisher.  On some 
pages this entails hand coloring three small vignettes set among the 
text.  Six nearly full page plates with their associated text were taken 
from Eliza Leslie's book "The Mirror." Which was published by  Munroe & 
Francis in 1828 and had 18 stories and nine plates.[OCLC finds one copy of 
this]. Most of the remainder of the book was drawn from Jane Taylor's 
Original Poems for Infant Minds.  Leslie was the first American woman 
illustrator.  It was only one of her accomplishments. She edited a magazine 
"Miss Leslie's Magazine", wrote cookbooks, fiction and other juveniles, and 
was a major contributor of short stories to Godey's Magazine.  Her all time 
best seller, also with her illustrations, was "The American Girl's Book", 
first published in 1831, which went through at least two dozen editions. 
See Hamilton P. 168-169, & Fig. 91, but not in Hamilton [lacks also the 
Mirror]. See also Bolton (1) P. 46, DAB Vol XI, P. 165. Her sister was 
married to the Philadelphia publisher Matthew Carey, and Eliza also lived 
in that town. Her children's books [all with etched or wood engraved 
illustrations after her drawings] were the fruit of stories which she told 
her little nieces and nephews. Art played an important role in her family. 
Her brother was the RA Charles Robert Leslie, who first went to England to 
study with the American PRA Benjamin West and remained there as a 
successful painter of Shakespearean genre.  He was a very close  friend of 
John Constable and wrote the classic life of Constable.  He also was a 
knowledgeable, painterly opponent to John Ruskin in his 
publications.  Eliza's children's books are all rare.  This book which 
Munroe and Francis made up out of two of their early publications has a 
special distinction in being the only hand colored copy of any of her works 
I have ever  seen or seen noted bibliographically.  The coloring is very 
well done and the pages are all charming and extremely decorative.  It is 
bound in yellow printed wraps and remains in its original sewing. The paper 
ove the spine has long perished, otherwise a truly superior copy of a 
fragile and rare production.  $875.00

5.	LING, MRS. S.K.: PICTURE COLLECTION OF MRS. S. K. LING.  Kowloon, 
Hongkong, 1935. Folio, 45 cm. Introductions in Chinese and in English, Full 
page collotyped color photo portrait of the artist on heavy paper,  and an 
album of 32 FP reproductions of  her  paintings and some calligraphy in 
full color plus metallic inks. Colophons in Chinese and English.   Large 
Folio, Green leatherette binding, gold stamped. All pages are  fully 
interleaved. Mrs. Ling paints in the miniaturist flower and bird tradition. 
She was consciously influenced by the Yuan masters Mi  Fei and Chao Meng Fu 
and his family. There is no statement of limitation, but there are no 
copies reported by either RLIN/OCLC, KVK, COPAC or NUC. KVK now contains 
the national union libraries of several new countries, i.e. Australia, 
Finland,  and Canada as well as most European nations. Presumably a 
privately printed book for family, friends and collectors. The introduction 
and colophon are written by her husband. She is, however a distinctively 
original painter of high professional caliber. Fine copy of a sumptuously 
produced book with wonderful color plates after original paintings. $1,250.00

6.	MARTIN, SARAH CATHERINE : MOTHER HUBBARD AND HER CURIOUS DOG CARLO[.] 
New York, Ilman & Pilbrow [front wrap], George W. Burgess No.129 Williams 
Street. ND, [1833-1839]. 18.5 cm. Etched TP plus 12 leaves. Illustrations 
on all leaves , including a TP Vignette. All are etched and hand colored. 
There is a final blank cognate with the title page. The original pictorial 
etched front wrap with the same title and vignette as the title page, but 
with a different publisher given "Illman and Pilbrow". Burgess published 
only children's books from 1833-1839. Ilman & Pilbrow were a firm or 
engravers who did work for many New York publishers during that exact 
period. This is the only book I have found with their imprint. The tale is 
pleasantly absurd, perhaps best described as serio -comic, ending with a 
funeral for the dog attended by Mother Hubbard and her cat, only. This 
story is unusual, because despite its traditional tale  qualities,  it was 
written by  Sarah Catherine Martin who prepared the manuscript, with the 
illustrations, in the early 1800s which was published by Harris in 1805. 
The illustrations were also hers. Although she first published it, Mrs. 
Trimmer remembered in somewhat different form from her childhood [Osborne I 
P. 102].  This edition is unnoted at MWA, not at OCLC, UCLA and seems to be 
a unique survivor. Etched and hand colored juveniles of this period are all 
now quite rare. A piece of light blue muslin was glued to the spine many 
years ago, one page has a little light brown stain in a blank area at top 
otherwise a lovely copy. $1100.00

7.	MORRIS, SUSAN B.; MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF POETRY with 29 Watercolor Vignettes 
of Flowers and Foliage in Folk Style [three with other subjects]. 8 1/4" x 
10 3/4" Ca. 1850, Provenance, Kingston, N. Y. A number of pages used for 
new calligraphy practice; these unillustrated, a page loose. The flower 
paintings are theoremlike, executed with a delicate yet crisp, detailed yet 
decorative hand. Many poems are original, several signed by the author. She 
was partial to both poems and illustrations of roses and the season of 
spring. In her calligraphy, the whole page, including her poetry and 
illustration becomes an enlightening experience. It is unusual to find a 
corpus of work by a single folk artist of this early period, now, of such 
consistant high quality, with a provenance. Unnoted in Meyer, "Folk Artists 
Biographical Index". A new, 19th century New York State Folk 
Artist!  Rebound by the artist/poet/scribe's grand daughter in 1940 in 
patterned silk, Fine. $9250.00

8.	RIMMER, CAROLINE HUNT, : FIGURE DRAWING FOR CHILDREN; papers of special 
value to all interested in the development of art among the children, by 
Caroline Hunt Rimmer. Illustrations by the author.  Boston, D. Lothrop 
Company, 1893. 79 p. front., illus. 24 cm. Carolin was the only child of 
William Rimmer, and he seems to have treated her as well as he did his girl 
students [which was very well]. She, here, writes a drawing book for 
children which teaches them to draw child proportions, since she thinks it 
is only natural that they will want to make pictures of children. It is a 
bizarre notion, but worthy of Rimmer's daughter. She, herself, can do it 
with ease. She also wrote an anatomy of the Horse as a companion piece 
tohis human anatomy,his most important work. A lovely copy  in a binding 
stamped in light blue and gold. $250.00

9.	VERY, LYDIA L. A. (Lydia Louisa Anna) : RED RIDING HOOD / [written & 
designed by Lydia L. Very].  Boston, Mass. : L. Prang, [1863?], [16] p. : 
col. ill. ; 18 x 7 cm.  This is a toy book cut in the shape of a standing 
Little Red Riding Hood, with illustrations interspersed within its pages. 
All is chromiolithographed weith lovely color. "Entered according to act of 
Congress, in the year 1863 ... in clerk's office of the District Court of 
Massachusetts."  It is a verse adaptation of: Rotkäppchen. Very was part of 
the transcendentalist movement.   Her brother as a poet, also was a 
publishing member, his first book of poetry was edited by Emerson.  She 
wrote, drew and designed several shape books, but this was her first. Prang 
considered this the first American shape book, and it has been so 
described, but there is a Mcloughlin from the same year.  This one is 
particularly charming. The Ken Leach auction possessed the earliest 
American Dust Jacket date 1849. This copy is very unusual in that it is a 
Fine Copy still in its original pictorial envelope, showing red riding hood 
and the wolf at either side of a tondo and cartouche containing the title, 
imprint and copyright date.  This is printed in various shades of green, 
with the forest behind. There is a small dark stain [1/2  inch tapering 
from 1/32 to 1/8th inches] in the right corner of the front and two tiny 
tears in the blank flap. Ergo Very Good, while book is Fine. This is the 
equivalent of a dust jacket. I have neither heard of nor seen one on any 
such early American product. The Ken Leach auction possessed the earliest 
American Dust Jacket date 1849. Very few have survived from our 
period.   $825.00

10.	WATANABE, YUKO : JAPANESE TYPES ILLUSTRATED BY MRS. YUKO 
WATANABE.  Tokyo, 1887. First Edition in English. 12 x 9 inches. Wrap, 25 
Pp. [plates], colophon [Japanese] Original front wrap in English bound in, 
with title and date and the Tokyo address where the title was published. 
This material is repeated in Japanese in the colophon. The 25 large 
autograph lithographs after drawings by a rare Japanese woman artist show 
the life and customs of contemporary Japanese, as well as one recent, but 
already vanished type, the samurai. They are finely drawn in a 
sophisticated and accurate Western style and printed in either black or 
dark brown. The result is often full of poetry. They include portraits 
of  samurai, soldiers, peasants, geisha, salesmen, etc. Fourteen of the 
lithographs have captions in English; these include: Daimyo on his way to 
the Court; a peasants wife feeding a child; Nabunya gazing at the enemies' 
approach; a soldier out in his favorite pastime; a young lady trying to 
hang up Kakemono; a young lady running for her mistress' message; 
hair-dressing; a ride to her friend; a lady just after her hair-dressing; a 
country man at the cloth store; burning the skin with moxo; a noble-woman 
in her full dress; a Samurai coming down the slope of Kunizan; one of 
Kamon's samurai at the gate of Sakuruda. Eleven other illustrations are 
untitled; they include pictures of a woman with a child, washing dishes, 
looking in a mirror, smoking a pipe, and of young warriors and old men. Not 
in Wenckstern, Unrecorded in OCLC, KVK, BL, COPAC, BN, Harvard, Melvyl, 
NYP. There is a copy at Yale. A French edition, titled "Types Japonais" and 
dated 1886, is known and is somewhat different in having more prints, but 
no copies are noted in any library. The Bibliotheque Nationale notes they 
have a volume of her prints, but date it 1891. Bound in ½ blue Mro., 
matching marbled boards and endpapers, bookplate of the original owner, 
Edith Taylor, extremities rubbed, OW VG, Fine printings and state. $1,650.00

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