Item Detail
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Thomas Dean & Son
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1683
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Nursery Picture Books
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8vo
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original pictorial wrappers
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London
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n.d. (c. 1850)
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17 cm.
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Vault 808.837 D346n 1850
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A series of 11 (out of 12), published by Dean & Son. With many hand-colored woodcuts. A charming series by Dean & Son, of an educational nature, with such titles as The Countries of Europe, Public Buildings of London, Stories of the Alphabet, etc. At one time these booklets were bound together with a brown paper backstrip but have since been parted. Remains of the brown paper is in evidence. Apart from this defect the lot is in remarkably fine condition. Usually the coloring of the woodcuts in such publications is very crude and hasty; these are an exception.