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 - Schnick Schnack Trifles for the Little-Ones & Buds and Blossoms of Childish Life Uncommon

Title: Schnick Schnack Trifles for the Little-Ones & Buds and Blossoms of Childish Life Uncommon
Description: London, George Routledge, 1867-70. Cloth. Two uncommon late nineteenth-century collections of children's stories, colourfully illustrated throughout by German artist Oscar Pletsch. Two charming collections of children's short stories and poems, written in the nineteenth century, Schnick Schnack Trifles for the Little-Ones and Buds and Blossoms of Childish Life. Both works have been colourfully illustrated by German artist Oscar Pletsch. Schnick Schnack Trifles for the Little Ones contains an illustrated frontispiece and an additional thirty-one illustrated chromolithograph plates, all in colour. Collated and complete.Buds and Blossoms of Childish Life contains an illustrated frontispiece and an additional thirty illustrated chromolithograph plates, all in colour. Collated, and lacking two plates. Containing a previous owner's ink signature to the front free-endpaper of each volume and a contemporary ink inscription to the front blank of Buds and Blossoms, dated 1870. Also containing a previous bookseller's sticker to the front pastedown of each volume. Uniformly rebound in half cloth with marbled boards. Externally, sound, with some shelf wear to the boards and bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and extremities. A spot to the front board of 'Schnick Schnacks&apos. Containing a previous owner's ink signature to the front free-endpaper of each volume and a contemporary ink inscription to the front blank of Buds and Blossoms, dated 1870. Also containing a previous bookseller's sticker to the front pastedown of each volume. Internally, front hinge is strained in 'Schnick Schnacks', but remaining binding is generally firm. Binding is very tender in 'Buds and Blossoms', with plate opposite page A2 lifting at the tail, and pages A2, H2, and two plates opposite H2 detached but present. Spotting and handling marks to the pages. Good . Ill.: Oscar Pletsch. Good .

Keywords: buds and blossoms children's childish life little-ones children's stories pletsch Oscar Pletsch

Price: GBP 130.00 = appr. US$ 185.64 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 838J5

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