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Augustus Köllner, c.1850
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City Sights for Country Eyes
Augustus Köllner, c.1850
[KÖLLNER, Augustus, illustrator (1813-1906).] City Sights for Country Eyes. [Philadelphia:] American Sunday-School Union [c.1855].
One in a series of rare children's books from Philadelphia artist and lithographer Augustus Köllner, this one featuring Philadelphia street scenes. "Augustus Köllner was the kind of multi-talented, market-sensitive, professional artist characteristic of many northeastern cities in the middle of the nineteenth century [...] [H]e was a prolific illustrator of children's and sporting books. He also appears to have traveled widely and worked as an itinerent artist. In the decade before the Civil War he prepared several titles for the American Sunday School Union of Philadelphia. The present work, consisting of twelve plates and twelve brief essays, was listed in the Union's catalogues from January 1857 through 1893. Each plates illustrates a moral message while depicting a scene from everyday life" (Pictured to the Life). The last copy to sell at auction is recorded in ABPC as 1998. See lot 175 for his horse drawings. America Pictured to the Life 93.
Oblong quarto (217 x 275mm). Lithographic title and 12 tinted lithograph plates, text printed in green, red, black, and blue (some repairs to tears with the lower corner of one page reproducing eight words in facsimile, 120mm closed repaired tear to “To the Depot” text leaf). Original pebbled red cloth stamped in gilt (rebacked). Custom chemise and slipcase, leather label.
Augustus Köllner, c.1850
[KÖLLNER, Augustus, illustrator (1813-1906).] City Sights for Country Eyes. [Philadelphia:] American Sunday-School Union [c.1855].
One in a series of rare children's books from Philadelphia artist and lithographer Augustus Köllner, this one featuring Philadelphia street scenes. "Augustus Köllner was the kind of multi-talented, market-sensitive, professional artist characteristic of many northeastern cities in the middle of the nineteenth century [...] [H]e was a prolific illustrator of children's and sporting books. He also appears to have traveled widely and worked as an itinerent artist. In the decade before the Civil War he prepared several titles for the American Sunday School Union of Philadelphia. The present work, consisting of twelve plates and twelve brief essays, was listed in the Union's catalogues from January 1857 through 1893. Each plates illustrates a moral message while depicting a scene from everyday life" (Pictured to the Life). The last copy to sell at auction is recorded in ABPC as 1998. See lot 175 for his horse drawings. America Pictured to the Life 93.
Oblong quarto (217 x 275mm). Lithographic title and 12 tinted lithograph plates, text printed in green, red, black, and blue (some repairs to tears with the lower corner of one page reproducing eight words in facsimile, 120mm closed repaired tear to “To the Depot” text leaf). Original pebbled red cloth stamped in gilt (rebacked). Custom chemise and slipcase, leather label.
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