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Auction archive: Lot number 12

CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878), illustrator. GRIMM, Jacob and Wilhelm. German Popular Stories. Translated from the Kinder und Haus Märchen. London: C. Baldwin, 1823-1826.

Auction 13.12.2006
13 Dec 2006
Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$2,880
Auction archive: Lot number 12

CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878), illustrator. GRIMM, Jacob and Wilhelm. German Popular Stories. Translated from the Kinder und Haus Märchen. London: C. Baldwin, 1823-1826.

Auction 13.12.2006
13 Dec 2006
Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$2,880
Beschreibung:

CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878), illustrator. GRIMM, Jacob and Wilhelm. German Popular Stories. Translated from the Kinder und Haus Märchen. London: C. Baldwin, 1823-1826. 2 volumes, 12 o (171 x 100 mm). 2 engraved titles and 20 etched plates, first volume with plates printed in brown, second volume in black. (Some light browning and staining). 20th-century green morocco, spines gilt, edges gilt (spines and egdes evenly faded to brown). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (without the diaeresis on Märchen on the engraved title) of the first illustrated children's book in the modern sense. Alderson & Oyens 304; Mahony Illustrations of Children's Books 197; Cohn 369. (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 12
Auction:
Datum:
13 Dec 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
13 December 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878), illustrator. GRIMM, Jacob and Wilhelm. German Popular Stories. Translated from the Kinder und Haus Märchen. London: C. Baldwin, 1823-1826. 2 volumes, 12 o (171 x 100 mm). 2 engraved titles and 20 etched plates, first volume with plates printed in brown, second volume in black. (Some light browning and staining). 20th-century green morocco, spines gilt, edges gilt (spines and egdes evenly faded to brown). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (without the diaeresis on Märchen on the engraved title) of the first illustrated children's book in the modern sense. Alderson & Oyens 304; Mahony Illustrations of Children's Books 197; Cohn 369. (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 12
Auction:
Datum:
13 Dec 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
13 December 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
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