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Augustus Köllner, c.1855
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Picture Lessons Illustrating Moral Truth
Augustus Köllner, c.1855
[KÖLLNER, Augustus, illustrator (1813-1906).] Picture Lessons, Illustrating Moral Truth, For the Use of Infant-Schools, Nurseries, Sunday-Schools, & Family Circles. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [c.1855].
The largest in format of Köllner's children's books, this includes cautionary tales titled "The Young Robbers," "The Sluggard!", and "Honest Boys Make Honest Men," among others. The only record for this title in RBH is a sale at Sotheby Parke Bernet in 1976.
Folio (380 x 270mm). 10 colored lithographic plates. (Browning and dampstainting internally, 70mm repaired closed tear to first plate, last two plates and final page of text laid down.) Modern boards reproducing original boards in facsimile (original wrapper laid down inside).
Augustus Köllner, c.1855
[KÖLLNER, Augustus, illustrator (1813-1906).] Picture Lessons, Illustrating Moral Truth, For the Use of Infant-Schools, Nurseries, Sunday-Schools, & Family Circles. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [c.1855].
The largest in format of Köllner's children's books, this includes cautionary tales titled "The Young Robbers," "The Sluggard!", and "Honest Boys Make Honest Men," among others. The only record for this title in RBH is a sale at Sotheby Parke Bernet in 1976.
Folio (380 x 270mm). 10 colored lithographic plates. (Browning and dampstainting internally, 70mm repaired closed tear to first plate, last two plates and final page of text laid down.) Modern boards reproducing original boards in facsimile (original wrapper laid down inside).
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