AB-BOOK – HEIJNINGEN BOSCH, M. VAN. Figuurlijk... Lot n° 10027

Te Groningen, bij M. van Heijningen Bosch, 1820, 18,[4] pp. With 31 small-sized woodcut ills. (printed recto & verso on 16 numb. text-pages). 32mo oblong (ca. 8 x 9,5 cm.), orig. printed blue wrappers. [AB-BOOK] – HEIJNINGEN BOSCH, [M.] VAN. Figuurlijk Onderwijs. Abe-Prentjes voor Moeder en Kind, [..]. ¶ Cf. Buijnsters (Papertoys) p. 140 (listing the same work published as print-series). Very rare first edition in bookform of an early 19th-cent. small-sized Dutch spelling-book by the Dutch author Mattheus van Heyningen Bosch (1773-1821) with explanatory text (“Handleiding”, 4 pp.) at the end. Ex bibliotheca Felicia van Deth-Beck (1931-2015, Dutch puppeteer) with her book-plate mounted on verso front-wrapper. – A few minor imperfections to the wrappers (spine partly worn away), but nevertheless in good condition.