One hundred picture fables / drawn by Otto Speckter ; engraved and printed in colours by the Brothers Dalziel ; with rhymes translated from the German of F. [sic] Hey by H.W. Dulcken.

Accession number:

PML 89039

Author:

Hey, Wilhelm, 1789-1854.

Published:

London : George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate ; New York : Broome Street, [186?]

Description:

[8], 100, [8] p., [50] leaves of plates : col. ill. (wood engravings) ; 19 x 14.5 cm

Credit:

Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.

Notes:

Translation of Wilhelm Hey's "Fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder" and his "Noch fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder".
"Dalziel Brothers Engravers & Printers, Camden Press"--verso of t.p.
Added wood-engraved t.p. with pictorial border design, and printed in red and black.
Each plate has two illustations, most signed: Dalziel sc. and OS; printed on one side, only.
Text printed within single ruled borders.
Publisher's advertisement on last six pages following text.
"Alice E. Corner"--inscription in pencil inside upper cover.
"Bound by W. Bone & Son London E.C., 76 Fleet Street"--binder's ticket inside lower cover.

Binding:

Publisher's pictorial purple morocco-grain cloth, blocked in gold and blind, depicting a cat, mouse, two birds, and a butterfly; signed L (i.e. John Leighton) on upper cover.

Variant Title:

100 picture fables

Provenance:

Alice E. Corner, inscription ; from the library of Lincoln Kirstein.

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Department:

Printed Books