(DEAN’S RAG BOOK). ~ Tous les animaux. [London: Dean’s Rag Book Co. Ltd. for] Hachette et c[ompagn]ie [n.d.].
Tall 4to (318 × 168 mm), pp. [4] including endleaves, plus pictorial covers, all folded from the same piece of colour printed linen, sewn at spine, with zigzag pinked edges, as issued. Very light fading to the green covers (including a strip at the foot of the lower cover), but an excellent copy.
A file copy from Dean and Co, who pioneered the rag book for the youngest children in 1903, producing boldly coloured printed calico books designed to be washable and indestructible — the Dean logo shows two dogs pulling at a rag book. It illustrates twenty-four animals, including the dog on the cover, as well as butterflies, a giraffe, a camel, a parrot, a kangaroo, three monkeys and a turkey, all captioned in French. The pinked edges were designed to minimise fraying, and in this case the copy is unused. No library copies found in WorldCat or JISC LibraryHub.