1915 Scarce First English Edition - SPRING FLOWERS by Geertruida Vogel, Illustrated by RIE CRAMER.
(Description)
Author: Geertruida Vogel. Illustrated by Rie Cramer.
Title: SPRING FLOWERS. Rhymed into English from the Dutch by L. Edna Walter. Illustrated in colour by Rie Cramer.
Publisher: London, A. & C. Black, Ltd., no date (circa 1915). First English Edition.
Size: 9 " X 11 ".
Pages: Unpaginated.
Binding: Attractive and very good, near fine original full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, first free blank endpaper page creased - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the colored frontispiece and 12 other colored plates to accompany the musical scores by Rie Cramer.
The book: Scarce and Nice First English edition of this exquisite volume illustrated by Rie Cramer and first published in Dutch under the title "Lenteliedjes" (1914).
The illustrator: Marie "Rie" Cramer (10 October 1887 – 16 July 1977) was a Dutch writer and prolific illustrator of children's literature whose style is considered iconic for the interwar period. For many years, she was one of the two main illustrators for a leading Dutch youth magazine, Zonneschijn (Sunshine). She also wrote plays under the pseudonym Marc Holman. Some of her work was banned during World War II because it attacked National Socialism, and she wrote for a leading underground newspaper during the war.