many different sources, at a time when interest in fairy tales was beginning to decline” (Whalley & Chester, p. 141). Though it is Andrew Lang’s name which appears as the author of the fairy books, they were largely the result of the work of others, most crucially female translators such as his wife, Leonora (1851–1933) and others such as May Kendall and Margaret Hunt, both of whom also published fairy tale collections in their own name. Lang acknowledged this in the preface to The Lilac Fairy Book (1910): “The fairy books have been almost wholly the work of Mrs. Lang, who has translated and adapted them from the French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and other languages”. Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fairy design on front cover and spine in gilt, gilt edges. With dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 6 colour plates with tissue guards, 17 black and white plates, illustrations in the text throughout. Times bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. A fine copy, bright and tight, in very good dust jacket, chipped with closed tears at extremities yet still a nice example. ¶ Peter Harrington, Leonora Lang’s Rainbow Fairy Books , available online; Joyce Whalley & Tessa Chester, A History of Children’s Book Illustration , 1988. £2,500 [143082] 61 LAVATER, Warja (illus.); GRIMM, Jacob & Wilhelm. Moon Ballad. New York and Paris: Juliette Halioua Ltd. and Adrien Maeght Editeur, 1973 First and sole edition in English, signed by the publisher, Juliette Halioua, on the front pastedown. This treatment of the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty , with pictographic representations rather than text, is presented in the accordion form for which artist Warja Lavater is best known. It is scarce: WorldCat lists only three copies (Zentralbibliothek Zürich, SUNY Buffalo, and UCLA). Lavater was one of seven women artists to attend Ernst Keller’s class at the Fachklasse für Grafik an der Kunstgewerbeschule Grafik in Zürich. After she moved to New York in 1958, Lavater was struck by American street advertising, and began to incorporate pictograms as linguistic elements in her designs. MoMA published her “William Tell” as an accordion-form single-sheet lithograph in 1962, and Lavater pursued this form throughout the remainder of her career. Slim quarto. Leporello-style accordion-form colour lithograph, internal metal display hook, folding into original blue quarter cloth portfolio, colour lithograph on paper-covered sides. A fine copy. £975 [149831]
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year’s Caldecott Medal. Miriam Schlein wrote nearly 100 books that helped teach children about various subjects including animals, and space and time. Harvey Weiss wrote The Big Clean Up together with many “How to” and factual books for children and young adults. Crockett Johnson is best known for the comic strip Barnaby with Mr O’Malley. 10 autographs on two leaves of ruled paper removed from a spiral bound notebook. Remy Charlip has added a drawing of a cat; Maurice Sendak a drawing of a sitting dog; H. A. Rey a drawing of a giraffe; Karla Kushkin a drawing of two dogs; Ezra Jack Keats a drawing of a stick man; Harvey Weiss a drawing of a worried face; and Crockett Johnson a drawing of Mr O’Malley flying. All in excellent condition. Presented in a black wooden frame with museum acrylic glazing. £3,000 [146040] 59 LAMB, Charles & Mary; SHAKESPEARE, William. Tales from Shakespear: Designed for the Use of Young Persons. London: printed for Thomas Hodgkins, at the Juvenile Library, 1807 Attractive contemporary tree calf First edition, first issue (with the imprint of the printer T. Davison on the verso of vol. I, p. 235, and with the Hanway Street address in the final adverts). These retellings of Shakespeare stories for children, co-authored by brother and sister Charles and Mary Lamb – fourteen tales by Mary, six by Charles, though only the latter was credited on the title page – “stands as the first work for children of British authorship never to have been out of print. Its success established the retelling of classics of English literature to children as a worthy task” (Grolier). 2 volumes, duodecimo (172 × 98 mm). Contemporary tree calf, spines lettered and tooled in gilt. Housed in a custom green cloth solander box. 20 engraved illustrations by William Mulready, including frontispieces (one plate of vol. II misbound in vol. I). Complete with
terminal advertisement. Later 19th-century bookplate of A. & W. R. Ward on front pastedowns, contemporary jotting on terminal page of vol. I. Joints and extremities expertly restored, spines and gilt a little rubbed, light staining to pp. 1–4 of vol. II and very light sporadic foxing, else contents fresh. An attractive copy. ¶ Ashley III.42; Grolier, Children’s 100 , 24; Gumuchian 3614; Muir, English Childrens’ Books, 102–3. £3,000 [152129] 60 LANG, Andrew (ed.) The Orange Fairy Book. London: First edition, first impression, of the tenth of Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books , gathering folk stories from Africa to Jutland, here a particularly fine copy preserving – most unusually – the original dust jacket, without restoration. “The series became a landmark in the presentation of traditional tales, for it introduced children to selections of old and new tales of every kind, known and unknown, and from Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906 In the rare dust jacket
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