1971 The Collector's Book of Children's Books

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition. 

With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.

A valuable survey of children's books from the sixteenth century to the respective modern day.

Illustrated throughout with monochrome and coloured photographs of the books' contents. 

With fascinating studies of the imaginative fairy and folk tales, poetry, and rhymes from the popular authors and illustrators of the times. 

From notable British bibliophile and collector, Eric Quayle, who built up a substantial collection over his lifetime, totalling 16,000 volumes at the time of his death, many of which were children's books.