The Children`s World of Learning 1480-1880. A collection of printed books, manuscripts, broadsides and prints illustrating four centuries of education and popular culture in Western Europe with emphasis on the Low Countries.
Sebastiaan S. Hesselink,
Agnes M.L. Kerssemakers
- ISBN:
9789061941392
- Year:
2002
- Size:
4to
- Binding:
Cloth
- Illustration:
1183 illustrations, of which 351 in full colour
- Pages:
(X), 682 + (VIII), 755 + (VIII), 151 pp
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Set. Originally published as catalogue 100 of Antiquariaat FORUM in 10 issues between 1994-2002. With an extra issue with extensive indices. Prices of seperate issues on request (info@forumrarebooks.com).
The impressive Catalogue, developed into a unique reference work on Children`s books, is now available in three extensive and richly illustrated volumes: a milestone in the history of Children`s book production. The work illustrates and mirrors the entire history of West-European education. Besides historical schoolbooks on spelling and reading exercises, on teaching methods, arithmetic, drawing, children`s literature, fairy-tales, fable books, and so on, you can find your way in popular literature and chapbooks, books on sports, games and pastimes etc. All titles are expertly described, annotated and placed in their cultural-historical context.
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"The first part of a truly remarkable collection ‘The Children’s World of Learning’ listed 529 numbers covering ABCs, calligraphy, spelling books and books on teaching languages, children’s poetry, and serials. All this was punctually recorded and annotated […]. We shall look forward to the succeeding instalments, expected to run to seven or eight more catalogues" (The Bookcollector, Winter 1994)."Just the iconography of looking through all the wonderful illustrations you reproduce in these ten parts makes it a bedside companion to bibliophiles all the world over" (Justin G. Schiller, from a letter, dated 12 October 2001)."La grande différence entre le catalogue de Forum et celui de Gumuchian ne réside ni dans le nombre de titres, ni dans la période couverte, ni même dans le plus grand domaine linguistique et la plus grande diversité de sujets [...] Pour moi, le différence fondamentale réside dans les notices détaillées qui situent les livres dans leur contexte historique et culturel. Se sont ces commentaires qui élèvent le catalogue au-dessus du niveau d’une charmante collection de titres, et qui nous ouvrent la porte sur un monde encore peu exploré" (P.J. Buijnsters, in Le Magazine du Bibliophile, no. 13, Jan. 2002)."There can be no doubt that this will become a work of reference, too, and one with an importance outside the wide frame covered by this monumental collection" (The Bookcollector, Summer 2002).
