HEEL, JAN VAN.
Uitzagen en Kleuren. Map I-II.
Zwijndrecht, Wed. Plancken en Zn., (ca. 1935). 2 vols. Large 8vo. Orig. boards portfolios, with titles and illustrations in red on front covers. With 24 loose plates, 12 in each portfolio, depicting models for wooden dolls. 2 leaflets with explanatory text, one in each vol. Complete series of models for working with wood for use in the handicraft classes for boys in Dutch primary schools, intended for making wooden dolls. The models should be cut out and drawn along the outlines on a wooden board, then sawn and sanded, and finally coloured according to the directions given on the plates. Wooden dolls to make are fairy-tale figures, like a fairy, a gnome, an angel, Little Red-Riding-Hood, a witch, a prince, the Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, etc., but also other popular figures, like Madonna with Child, Don Quixote, a dancer, a musician playing, a monk reading, etc. The plates are numbered 1 to 24, and all have the publisher's address printed underneath. The explanatory leaflets are signed by M. Brans, head of a school in Dordrecht. Good set.- (Small library labels and stamps on portfolio and text-lvs.).
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