A collection of reference works on alphabet books. - Lot 121

A collection of reference works on alphabet books. 1/ - Jarkas, Bernard. - *The Art of French Alphabet Books*. Paris, Presses Universitaires de Rennes & la Compagnie des mots, 2018. Large in-4 format with illustrated publisher’s cloth binding—600 pp. [1 f.]. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white reproductions of books. The definitive work on the subject. 2/ - Le Men, Ségolène. - Illustrated French Alphabet Books of the 19th Century. Paris, Promodis, 1984. Publisher’s percaline quarto with a color dust jacket—338 pp. Illustrated with 297 black-and-white reproductions of books and 8 color plates. 3/ - Litaudon-Bonnardot, Marie-Pierre. - Children’s ABC Books. Verbe & image. Presses Universitaires de Rennes & Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine, 2014. In-4, publisher's hardcover with color illustrations—398 pp. Illustrated with 543 color reproductions of alphabet books. 4/ - City of Paris. Historical Collection of Children’s Literature. Catalog of Books Printed Before 1914. Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Heure Joyeuse. 1987. In-4, paperback—216 pp. Illustrated with reproductions, including 32 in color. 5/ - Baldwin, Ruth M. - 100 Nineteenth-Century Rhyming Alphabets in English. London and Amsterdam, Fepper & Simons, 1972. 4to, cloth with publisher’s color dust jacket—296 pp. Numerous illustrations, including color ones. 6/ - Duvallon, Jean. - *Les Abécédairzes*. *Mots et merveilles*. *La Mémoire du temps*. n.p. De Borée, 2010. In-4, paperback with color dust jacket and flaps—192 pp. Numerous color illustrations. 7/ - Catalog of the “Harfi harfine” exhibition published in 1998, which explores the history of scripts and alphabets from the Ottoman period through to the modern era. Included are 2 booksellers’ catalogs: - Justin G. Schiller, New York. November 1992. 350 entries for children’s books only. - Roger Castaing Library. Part Two. Paris, Drouot Rive-Gauche, November 9 and 10, 1977. 358 items described.