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Frogs and Snakes (Original artwork)

Frogs and Snakes (Original artwork) by Greenaway, Kate

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
Frogs and Snakes (Original artwork)
Author
Greenaway, Kate
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
London, 1870. First edition. Original watercolor (8 x 9 in.), sympathetically matted and framed. One of six watercolor designs for Diamonds and Toads (Frederick Warne & Co., 1871), a children's toy book in the Aunt Louisa's Toy Books series. This fantastically vivid and full watercolor drawing from early in Greenaway's career depicts a young woman holding in her right hand a large tankard and looking horrified as two huge frogs and two snakes jump and slither out of her mouth. At the left is an old woman, who, in the story, has cursed the girl to drop snakes from her mouth when she speaks. Greenaway used her sister, Fanny, as a model for the young woman in the illustration. Kate Greenaway (1824 - 1901) was commissioned to illustrate Diamonds and Toads, an entry in the Aunt Louisa's Toy Books series, in 1869. The toy book incorporates six of her illustrations: an "ambitious project" that took her over a year. She earned her "£36 from the color printer, Kronheim, for her watercolor designs" for the book (Engen). It was her first illustrated book and marked the beginning of a long and prolific career as one of the most beloved children's illustrators of the nineteenth century. Diamonds and Toads was first published by Charles Perrault, who initially titled the story "Les Fées" ("The Fairies"). It was also eventually included in Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889). See Spielmann & Layard, pp. 49, 285.
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Explication des Peintures, Sculptures et Gravures, de Messieurs de l’Académie Royale, Dont l’exposition a été ordonnée, suivant l’intention de Sa Majeste, par M. le Comte de la Billarderie d’Angiviller… by (PARIS SALON)

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Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.
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Explication des Peintures, Sculptures et Gravures, de Messieurs de l’Académie Royale, Dont l’exposition a été ordonnée, suivant l’intention de Sa Majeste, par M. le Comte de la Billarderie d’Angiviller…
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(PARIS SALON)
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Woodcut coat-of-arms & woodcut headpiece. 56 pp. & one leaf of ms. Early 19th-cent. marbled semi-stiff wrappers (149 x 95 mm.), leather lettering-piece on spine. Paris: veuve Herissant, 1781. Scarce livret for the 1781 Paris Salon, with a manuscript addendum detailing eight more works that were displayed. Ca. 87 artists exhibited at least 318 paintings, sculptures, engravings, drawings, etc. Artists such as Doyen, Brenet, Taraval, Vernet, Renou, Casanova, Guerin, Robert, Huet, Vallayer-Coster, Wailly, Pérignon, Suvée, Callet, Parrocel, Pajou, Berruer, Houdon, Boizot, Julien, Cochin, etc. participated in this year’s Salon. In fine condition. ❧ Documenting the Salon: Paris Salon Catalogs 1673-1945 (National Gallery of Art Library: 2016).
Ode Sung at San Francisco, October 29, 1850

Ode Sung at San Francisco, October 29, 1850 by Mrs. E. M. Willis (Elizabeth Maria Bonney Wills) (d. 1892)

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Title
Ode Sung at San Francisco, October 29, 1850
Author
Mrs. E. M. Willis (Elizabeth Maria Bonney Wills) (d. 1892)
Seller
John Howell for Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
[Los Angeles, CA]: The Press of Muir Dawson, 1947. 4to. 9 3/8 x 8 inches. Unpaginated. [8] pp. Foreword by Glen Dawson; text clean, unmarked. Printed wrappers, stitched; binding square and tight, wrappers with a variety of wear, like a bumped top corner, but still a nice exemplar of a scarce item. Pencil notation in the gutter at the last page of the text block reads: "1948 gift of the printer." SCARCE. BMR423-001. Good. FIRST EDITION, thus. Sung to the tune Star Spangled Banner. This poem was printed contemporarily as a broadside in San Francisco a couple of times. Foreword by Glen Dawson provides all the historical context then known for the people involved and the occasion of the presentation of the Ode in 1850. Elizabeth Wills was from an old New England family; she spent her childhood in Louisiana and New Hampshire. SCARCE: only one copy found for a comparable price, John Howell books offered one for $100 in 1979; that offer included a broadside printed by the San Francisco Picayune Print in 1850. REFERENCE: Works Progress Administration, Northern California, San Francisco, A San Francisco Songster, p. 92.
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SIGNATURE by ANDREWS, MAXINE

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SIGNATURE
Author
ANDREWS, MAXINE
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Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description
Signature on album leaf [Hollywood 1942]; with signature of actor Edmund Lowe on verso. Oblong 8vo. AUTOGRAPHS VERY GOOD.

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