(Swiss Children's Books) Hosch, Paul and Melching, Hans. D'R LUSCHDIG ZIPITI UND SINI SCHBEZEL. 8 FARBIGI BILDERBOGE (ORIGINAL SCHTEIZEICHNIGE) MIT "LEHRREICHE REIMCHE." Basel: Verlag: Wepf Schwabe & Co., [1915]. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Eight 9-13/16" x 13-3/8" color lithographed plates in the style of the Vienna Secession (Wiener Werkstatte), with calligraphic Basel German text within the image on each plate; each plate telling a short children's story told in both pictures and words; all plates in as new condition for what is an amazingly nice copy of the book. The eight lithographed plates loose in original publisher's color pictorial lithographed folding cover as issued, with titles printed in black, and with light rubbing around the edges for what is a bright and clean, and really nice example of the original color lithographed folding cover. The condition of the eight lithographed plates is FINE. The condition of the original color lithographed portfolio is NEAR FINE. Only two copies located on OCLC/WorldCat (Princeton University Library; Universitatsbibliothek Basel). EXCEEDINGLY RARE. Note: This book has been described as "one of the most beautiful Swiss children's' books" (Kaiser, Swiss Picture Books, p. 33). #001013