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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Percy Reeves (Color picture) / Walter Alois Weber (Cover Art & Interior Line Drawings) (illustratore). Here is a Lovely Vintage Children's Picture Book from 1938 about domesticated animals. It is a clearly-written, engaging book written for upper levels of elementary schools. The author, who worked in the Field Museum of Natural History, talks about domesticated animals, their uses, their interaction with humans, their personalities, etc. For each animal discussed, Mr. Schmidt gives a historical account of the animal's zoological ancestry. It's a bit of science, but easy, comfortable science. Animals and their various breeds discussed are dogs, cats, horses, cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, donkeys. It's a fine text with wonderful pictures. The color plates are lovely. TITLE : Our Friendly Animals and Whence they Came (ON COVER: "Friendly Animals") AUTHOR : Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890 - 1957) Schmidt was one of the foremost herpetologists in the world. INTERIOR COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS : by Percy Reeves COVER PICTURE, END-PAPERS & TEXTUAL BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS : Walter Alois Weber IMPRINT : Donohue & Company PLACE : Chicago - New York COPYRIGHT : (1938) ISSUE DATE : [1947 - as per OCLC - World Catalog] EDITION : Reprint PHYSICAL DETAILS : Oversize hardcover; Approximately 10" x 12" (quarto) hard cover in color pictorial boards with cloth spine; 64 pages; 12 full-page color plates, numerous line vignette drawings; line-pictorial end-papers printed in brown against a buff background. With Full-Page Color illustrations by Percy Reeves, and Cover Picture, End-papers, and Textual Line Drawings by Walter Alois Weber CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following details noted :: EXTERIOR : Two or three small, transparent water drop spots display on the front cover; mild surface creasing to rear board -- else pictorial boards are bright and clean; moderate edge wear and bumped corners, with attendant splitting to corner tips; spine displays slight fraying at extremities, else clean. BINDING : Solid INTERIOR : Clean with bright colors throughout. no writing or marking.

Eleven tipped-in monochrome etchings with black and white woodcut vignettes throughout. (illustratore). Third edition. Small quarto. xlvii, [i], 462. 8" x 6" DRAWING THE SAINTS TO THE PUBLIC MIND Writing essential art history essays like "The House of Titian" and bringing enthusiasm around German art to Victorian England through Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Anna Jameson (1794?1860) devoted her life to helping the public understand the value of historic art. Legends of the Monastic Orders was first published in 1850 as part of her six-volume series, Sacred and Legendary Art, which proved to be extremely popular, as the series was reissued over twenty times in the nineteenth century alone. Jameson fiercely believed that religious works of art are not merely decorative. Instead, they should be considered "as books?as poems?as having vitality of their own for good and for evil." In her artistic analyses of monastic traditions, Jameson allows religious art and icons to move us, drawing our eyes to the monks as they craft a radical way of life and to the saints shining before us. This copy has William Irwin of Wigton's bookplate adhered to front pastedown. Moderately rubbed extremities, front hinge just starting but holding firm, moderate foxing concentrated to front and rear of text block, still near fine. Overall a square and handsome copy. Quarter tan calf over brown pebbled cloth, blind ruled, maroon morocco spine labels, spine decoratively stamped in gilt, all edges marbled (combed) with matching marbled endpapers.