[Rarebooks] FS: Two Titles: Education History and Food and Drink

[Karen Howell]

Today we offer two random titles:

Important history of the book and children's education

1    TUER, Andrew W.  History of the Horn-Book.  Amsterdam: S. Emmering, 1971.  Three volumes in two.  8vo.  9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches.  xiii, 179; (x), 278 pp.  The second volume is really a portfolio with two hinges that folds open to a three-page opening that contains 7 horn-book facsimiles (complete).  Both text volumes with color title pages, 2 black-and-white frontispieces, black-and-white illustrations throughout including a number folding, indexes; text un-marked, a few pages have smudges or crumpled paper, but the text is completely legible.  Text volume and portfolio uniformly bound in beige cloth stamped in dark brown; binding square and tight, some light shelf wear and bumping.  Very Good.
    $ 125
Complete un-altered reprint of the first edition of 1896.  Provides a comprehensive social history of the horn-book: a primer for children consisting of a sheet containing the letters of the alphabet, mounted on wood, bone, or leather and protected by a thin sheet of transparent horn or mica.  The horn-book originated in England in 1450.  The term has been applied to a few different study materials in different fields.  In children's education, in the years before modern education materials were used, it referred to a leaf or page containing the alphabet, religious materials or some other matter to be taught, and covered with a sheet of transparent horn and fixed in a frame with a handle. 

Food and Drink....   Well, drink, mainly

2    CRAHAN, Marcus Esketh (1929-2008).  Early American Inebrietatis.  Review of the Development of American Habits in Drink and the National Bias and Fixations Resulting Therefrom.  Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1964.  Large 8vo.  10 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches.  (xiv], 62, [2] pp.  Title-page printed within an elaborate decorative border printed in brown ink, 8 plates, drawings throughout by Marion Kronfeld, bibliography, index; text clean, un-marked.  Quarter beige linen, patterned paper over boards, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight, spine faded, no jacket.  Very Good.
    $ 55
LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press.  Marcus Crahan amassed one of the finest collections on early gastronomy; this volume presents his overview of American drinking habits from the Colonial period through the early decades of the Republic. 

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