Item #461503 Flowers of delight / culled by Leonard de Vries from the Osborne Collection of early children's books ; an agreeable garland of prose and poetry for the instruction and amusement of little masters and misses and their distinguished parents ; embellished with some 750 elegant woodcuts and engravings on wood and copper, of which upwards of 125 are neatly coloured ; selected with the greatest care from books for juvenile minds, 1765-1830 ; designed by Eric Ayers. Leonard de Vries.

Flowers of delight / culled by Leonard de Vries from the Osborne Collection of early children's books ; an agreeable garland of prose and poetry for the instruction and amusement of little masters and misses and their distinguished parents ; embellished with some 750 elegant woodcuts and engravings on wood and copper, of which upwards of 125 are neatly coloured ; selected with the greatest care from books for juvenile minds, 1765-1830 ; designed by Eric Ayers

1965, First Edition. London : D. Dobson. Very good cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Price-clipped. Item #461503

Physical description: 232 p : illus. (part col.) facsims ; 27 cm. Subjects; Children's literature. Children's stories. Children's poetry.

Price: €25.00

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