Les Livres de l'enfance du XVe au XIX siecle.
Paris: Gumuchian & Cie, 1930. Preface de Paul Gavault. 2 volumes, short folio, original pictorial wrappers (lightly soiled). Vol. I consists of 446 pages of 6,251 annotated entries. Volume II contains 336 plates of numbered facsimiles of title pages, many hand-colored like the originals, bindings, illustrations, and full pages with text. Paris: Gumuchian & Cie, 1930. First edition of Gumuchian's Catalogue 13, the greatest of rare bookseller's catalogues in the field of children's literature and long a standard reference. Very..... More