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Christmas Pictures for Children, Dulac, introduction.
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Older girls from the art class run by Professor Cizek in the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna drew these extraordinary illustrations on stone and planned out the colours. Please note: THIS BOOK HAS BEEN SOLD
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Christmas Pictures for Children, Pictures by Children with an Introduction by Edmund Dulac.
/illustrated by the students.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., Vienna: Burgverlag, Richter & Sollner, 1922, preface by Francesca M. Wilson; brown boards with ivory figures of children and toys and paste-on plate with letters in green, endpapers with squares of little drawings from the plates in orange, Introduction and Preface followed by 14 plates, as issued, of colored lithos each with a tissue guard on which a little passage or story is printed; 9.25x11"
Picture Book hardback
CONDITION: Fair; gift inscription on back of free endpaper; binding holding, but cracked on either side of one signature; entire book somewhat warped with paper darkened and 2x4" paper missing from back board; some drawings carefully traced; edges worn, splits in spine cloth, darkening tissue guards all present, one trimmed half inch, plates in lovely condition, two have pale spots on edge of white margin.
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Control Number:
19012
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