DOLLY AND HER DOGGIES - Victorian Pictures & Stories for Children (Nister, 1898)

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Seller: bookupyourideas ✉️ (581) 100%, Location: St. Albans, GB, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 265142916903 DOLLY AND HER DOGGIES - Victorian Pictures & Stories for Children (Nister, 1898). DOLLY AND HER DOGGIES. A Book of Pictures & Stories for Girls & Boys. Not dated (1898 in WorldCat). Ernest Nister (London) & E.P. Dutton (New York), printed in Bavaria. Pictorial boards, 26cm x 21cm, not paginated (45pp). Ernest Nister was one of the first to produce pop-up books (this is not a pop-up book!), printing in Nuremberg, Bavaria, and then publishing in London (Nister's office) and New York (through E.P. Dutton, Nister's American publisher). Dolly and her Doggies is extremely rare. This copy has several issues and is best described as a reading copy, or a possible project piece - see description below for details. Contributors include L.L. Weedon, Clifton Bingham, Evelyn Stuart Hardy, E. Nesbit and Louis Wain. Cover: pictorial pastedown on front cover, plain cream on rear. Blue-grey cloth spine. Illustration on front cover is surprisingly intact. Scuffed and rubbed, shelfwear on all edges, corners bumped exposing boards. Front cover bowed, bending gently upwards towards leading edge. Cloth spine strip flecked, creased at head and base. Contents: cream endpapers with grey decoration. Small pencil notation to top left of front pastedown; similar (partially erased) to top of rear pastedown. Small closed tear (2cm) at spine towards bottom of front free endpaper. Page opposite title shows signs that tipped-in frontis has been removed. Hinge cracked at title page, revealing spine cloth and webbing with rusted staples embedded - thereafter, majority of pages, although present, are detached. Pages are aged-toned and not paginated; however, a previous owner has pencilled numbers at the top of each page (for convenience, these numbers are used in this description). Small tears on the edge of several pages, not affecting text. Pencil lines scribbled on p1; significant closed zigzag tear (12cm) towards bottom of page. Pp2-9 folded together, separated along bottom third of spine. Pencil marks in margin on p9. Drawing on image on p11. Pp12-29 folded together, detached; brown stains on p20 (Louis Wain cat pictures - see photo). Pp32-43 folded together, detached. Pencil scribble remnants to right and bottom margin of p44. Please take the time to review the accompanying photographs carefully, for an appreciation of both the quality and the issues with this exceptional Victorian children's book. Postage: second class (signed for) in the UK; via eBay's Global Shipping Programme to many other destinations.
  • Condition: Reading copy/project piece only. Delightful example of extremely rare Victorian children's book from Nister, showing signs of wear and tear. Please read detailed description.
  • Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
  • Illustrator: Various
  • Year Printed: 1898
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Place of Publication: London
  • Weight: 370g
  • Language: English
  • Author: Various
  • Publisher: Ernest Nister
  • Fiction Subject: Stories & poems for children

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