Two more Albums du Père Castor of the 1930s, these featuring
the work of the Swiss-French artist Béatrice Appia (1899-1998): Conte de la Marguerite, 1935 (top), and Histoire de Perlette, goutte d’eau, 1936
(bottom).
There are five English books in the collection. Here are
four of them. First, a spread from This
or that? by Wyndham Gooden, illustrated by Barbara Jones, published for the Scottish Committee of the Council of Industrial Design, HMSO, 1947.
Below that, left to right, Dorothy Chapman’s Baby Puffin, Counting book; Ring-a-Ring of Roses by Nancy Innes, Faber, 1942;
and one of Enid Marx’s war-time miniature books for Faber, Quiz.
Finally, a small group of Russian children’s books:
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