Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller

Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1843. First edition. 4to. x, 112 pp. Illustrated with lithographic title page, and 12 etchings with multi-color tissue guards, by Otto Speckter. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt, tips and joints lightly worn, rear gutter starting; scattered light foxing. Rümann, Buchillustr. p 338

First edition of the classic children's tale Puss in Boots, with charming illustrations by German etcher Otto Speckter (1807-1871). The present work is a compilation of three different versions of the story: the earliest, by Giovannia Francesco Straparola (1465-1558), another, by Giambattista Basile (1566-1632), and the third, by Charles Perrault (1628-1703).

"These illustrations are among the masterpieces of German illustration. The most charming and technically perfect work of these years..." (Rümann, Buchillustr. p. 338).