8/13/2023 0 Comments The black book horse sale![]() Unfortunately Anna Sewell would never realize her dream of experiencing the changes she wrote and fought for as she died only a few months after the book s publication having never received more then £20 for her literary efforts. This novel became an immediate success and in its day caused the altering of human behaviour towards and treatment of domesticated animals. It is a timeless story which relates events in the life of a horse which suffers great cruelty and despair but for whom there is the ultimate eventuality of a happy home. BLACK BEAUTY is the only book Anna Sewell ever wrote. With the exception of Cecil Aldin's illustrated edition we can't think of a prettier format we've seen for the title. A BEAUTIFUL AND YET QUITE UNCOMMON ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S BEST LOVED ANIMAL STORIES. In all a fine copy of a very finely produced edition. A fresh and lovely copy, the black cloth is entirely free of fading and wear, the gilt decorations are vivid and bright, the colour pastedown just very lightly rubbed, the interior is spotless, clean, fresh and sound. Tall 8vo, in the publisher's very attractive binding of ribbed black cloth, the upper cover with a large central pastedown from one of Burke's colourplates surronded by an elaborate gilt frame in a horseshoe motif, this within an outer gilt frame with gilt lettering, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt and with two gilt horseshoe decorations. Burke and ten additional black and white plates from sketches. ![]() With ten very beautiful colourplates inclusive of the frontispiece by John M. Paypal accepted.įirst edition thus, a very attractive early illustrated edition. All books described honestly and accurately. ![]() Occasional small marks/scattered foxing to pages. Odd small mark/minor foxing to page edges and bottoms. Inside boards/end-papers tanned with the odd small mark/mild foxing. Top of pages dyed (unevenly) green have the odd small mark/scratch/rub. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Green boards with black lettering to spine and gold lettering/design to front are good with a little pushing/bumping to corners, a few small marks, minor fading/browning to spine, a few small bumps/rubs to edges, a few small scratches/scrapes and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/small splits to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. All illustrations are present and in very good condition. With eighteen plates in colour specially drawn for this edition by Cecil Aldin. British edition, undated, however circa 1930. This book had much to do to begin animal welfare leagues the world over. An uncommon edition of this wonderful tale by Anna Sewell, written not as a children's book, but as a head's up to the Victorians of the day that horses (and cattle) were over-burdened and over worked in the streets and fields of England and that mercy to them and all animals was a must goal to achieve. Illustrated within 258 pages are eight full color glossy plates by Percy F. No names, writing or damage found save for foxing on the endpapers. Tiny bits of color loss at extremities, ghosting from a long ago price tag on rear dj panel, doesn't obscure reading the blurb printed there. DJ has a few vertical wrinkles from past life in a too small mylar, now remedied in new mylar but wrinkle remains. Original unclipped dust wrapper illustrated by Peter Biegel with a wrap around color plate of Beauty and Ginger galloping in a pasture as a fox hunt passes by in the next field. Gift quality 1st Adam & Charles Black, London edition 1959 in brown paper covered boards showing several small marks from nearby past adhesive, no longer present. More than useable and displays very well on the shelf from the front. Surface wear at periphery and tips, No spine title. Paper loss at foot of spine and light rubbing at head. Top of title page states 'The Rainy Day Series'. 6 full page color plates on glossy paper, two with a bit of soil in the margins, few pages have finger soil but none of the 45 pp text is obscured. The sea and ships show in the background. Cream colored endpapers have a double spread line drawing in brown of a child reading a book under a tree with her dog laying nearby. Cover has a color drawing on 2/3'ds of the frt (rear cover is solid red paper) by Hugo von Hofsten. Uncommon publisher on this darling abridged story of Black Beauty in 1/3 red paper covered boards with bright gilt title showing some missing gilt, but title/author remain clear.
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