Buy this book on-line COUDRILLE, JONATHON: : A Beastly CollectionLONDON.FREDERICK WARNE & CO. LTD.,1974. ISBN 0723217572.
UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE. Previous owner's name,in childish hand to reverse of half-title page at top,left-hand corner,and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,4-colour block (b/w and pink+tan),wrap-around artwork illustrated dw/dj, design repeated to bds; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges and corners - one small closed tear with crease to top,rear edge towards head of spine/backstrip.Light bumping with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj and miniscule loss to foot of same - corners also minimally rubbed.Described hard,but fairly and honestly - reads worse than actually
is!!! Top+fore-edges both slightly aged/toned with minimal sporadic foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,clean, sharp-cornered illustrated bOARds with immaculate plain pinkish endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,64pp [unpaginated] includes half-title+ title pages,a dedication,26 full-page, b/w line illustrated letter capitals and 7pp alphabetical,beastly compendium to rear.
An ABC which invitingly educates as it fascinates both those too young to read and those too busy to bother.Detectable traces of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll,but essentially original Jonathon Coudrlle.
The humorous yet poetical text deliberately doesn't explain everything pictured in the intricate illustrations,leaving some secrets lurking for the reader to discover for himself, while others are divulged in the compendium of contents at the end of the book.
Or as the author would prefer to put it: A Beastly Collection does encourage ferocious guesswork.However I jest,keeping lots more names of pictured quite remarkable subjects totally unwritten.Very well,examine your zoo.
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