COMMON SIGHTS IN TOWN & COUNTRY. DELINEATED & DESCRIBED FOR YOUNG CHILDREN [wrapper title].

Edité par Philadelphia: A. Köllner, [ca. 1853].

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William Reese's copy of this rare American juvenile instruction book, illustrated with a dozen charming and accomplished lithographic plates. The book was published at the behest of the American Sunday-School Union, and the text and illustrations are clearly meant to offer advice on living a proper life. This is the first state of the work, with the Sunday-School Union's address given as 146 Chesnut Street on every leaf. The lessons and scenes demonstrate the virtues of industry, economy, thrift, courtesy, and sobriety, as well as the sins of gossip, being inconsiderate, and succumbing to temptations of the flesh. The artist and lithographer, Augustus Köllner, was born in Frankfurt and studied lithography in Dusseldorf before emigrating to the United States and setting up a shop in Philadelphia. Beginning his career in the city as a portrait painter, Köllner soon found that his skills in lithography were much more profitable, working over the years for a variety of firms illustrating everything from children's books to viewbooks, maps, bank notes, and advertisements. Though over fifty years old, he enlisted in a cavalry company during the Civil War, making etchings in the field which he reproduced and sold after his return home. Peters calls Köllner "a brilliant lithographer.[with] an alert sense of interesting details in the American scene." Peters goes on to state that Köllner's works "have great quality and are truly Americana in essence and detail." He remained committed to "traditional" lithography, never venturing into chromolithography throughout his long career, and was particularly known for his illustrations of horses (which coincidentally appear in all twelve illustrations in this work). Each text leaf carries an appropriate quotation from the Bible, as well as a description of the scene. The plates, in the order in which they appear, are: 1) "A Ride to the City." 2) "A Village Store." 3) "The Coal-Cart." 4) "The Oysterman," depicting a well-to-do gentleman sampling the Oyster cart's wares while his barefoot African-American serving girl waits beside him with a basket. 5) "Idle Talk." 6) "The Wood-Cart." 7) "Stage Coach on the Mountains." 8) "Scenes in the Country." 9) "The Draymen." 10) "Sunday in the Country." 11) "The Canal Driver." 12) "The Farmer at Market." A wonderful juvenile instructional book, from the library of William Reese, who assembled one of the great collections of 19th-century American lithographic works. PETERS, AMERICA ON STONE, pp.254-55 (ref). Oblong quarto. Original pictorial wrappers. Some soiling and edge wear, spine and corners chipped. Front free endpaper excised; offsetting onto plate; occasional small marginal tears throughout; "Scenes in the Country" plate torn in lower outer corner, not affecting image. Even tanning, faint dampstain to upper corner of rear wrapper and final few leaves. About very good. In a green cloth chemise and slipcase, gilt morocco label. Bookplate of William S. Reese in chemise.…

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COMMON SIGHTS IN TOWN & COUNTRY. DELINEATED & DESCRIBED FOR YOUNG CHILDREN [wrapper title].
Auteur
[Köllner, Augustus]:
Éditeur
Philadelphia: A. Köllner, [ca. 1853].

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