Child's Book of Animals
Item #84434
[KOLLNER, Augustus]. The Child's Book of Animals. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [c.1850]. Oblong 4to. 6 lithographic plates, with "The Duck" partially colored in watercolor, and facing page text. Original pictorial wrappers. Spine chipped, foxing and toning, large dampstain affecting most leaves, else very good in custom slipcase and chemise. Kollner (1812-1906), a German-born artist and lithographer, and a longtime resident of Philadelphia, was well known in nineteenth-century America for his engraved views, magazine illustrations, and juvenile works. This simple picture book, part of his successful collaboration with the American Sunday School Union begun in the early 1840s and lasting until the start of the Civil War, includes illustrations of a duck, trout, jaguar, lion, and others. The address of the ASSU given here places the publication date of this edition before 1853. With the bookplate of William S. Reese.
Price: $5,000.00