Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe
Cleveland: World, 1968. First American edition. Hardcover. First American ediiton. Translated from the original German. Hardcover. xviii+ 297 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. Fine in very good dust jacket. Classic study of children's books produced in Europe from the earliest horn books and alphabets through the 19th and 20th centuries. The author describes such aspects as fairy tales, nursery rhymes, nonsense rhymes, fantasy and reality, cowboys and Indians, ' picture books, etc. from Aesop's Fables, Pinocchio, and Grimm through more recent classics like Stuwwelpeter and Babar The Elephant. Fine / very good. Item #E26079
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