Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 215

Price Realized: $ 6,480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
A RARE COLOR-PLATE CHILDREN'S BOOK (JUVENILE.) WEIK, JOHN. The Child's Own Album. Lovely Scenes of American Life. Printed with English and German captions. 16 full-page hand-colored plates. Small, oblong 4to (6 1/2 x 8 inches), with plates printed on rectos only. Bound in glazed white paper-covered boards with deep intaglio floral borders in gilt; title in green on the upper cover; with the rear cover bearing the same pattern as the front though in blind with a scene of a stagecoach in a center vignette. Philadelphia: John Weik, Publisher and importer, nd, circa 1850s
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first and only edition. A Beautifully printed and bound children's book. The captions for the engravings, in German and English, were no doubt intended for Pennsylvania's considerable German-speaking population, and probably printed in Germany or Austria. This book is remarkable for its depiction of white and black children playing together as well as white and black adults in scenes together. While some scenes certainly suggest that the blacks in them may be both poor and or servants, there is no suggestion of the subject of slavery. OCLC locates only three copies of this book, giving the plate count as 15.