By Louey Chisholm; Various
London   T. C. & E. C. Jack
9.5" by 7" xxxi, [1], 361pp
A beautifully illustrated collection of children's poetry, complete with striking colour plates.
By Louey Chisholm; Various

c1910 The Golden Staircase

London   T. C. & E. C. Jack
9.5" by 7" xxxi, [1], 361pp
A beautifully illustrated collection of children's poetry, complete with striking colour plates.
£120.00
: 1.5kgs / : 955P57

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Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Including the front wrap of the original dust wrapper.

An anthology of poems for children, collecting together poems by many eminent poets. Including 'The Eve of Waterloo' by Lord Byron, 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' by Robert Browning, 'The Village Blacksmith' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'The Lost Doll' by Charles Kingsley, 'Shiv and the Grasshopper' by Rudyard Kipling, 'Lochinvar' by Sir Walter Scott, 'Lucy Gray' by Wordsworth, and more.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and fifteen colour plates. Collated, complete.

Collected by Louey Chisholm.

Illustrated by M. Dibdin Spooner.

Gift inscription to the recto of the front endpaper, dated Christmas 1910.

Condition

In the original publisher's cloth binding, with the original front wrap of the dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light marks to the cloth. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Spots to the fore edge. Gift inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Front wrap is edge worn, with a tidemark. Light handling marks to the dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Small tidemark to the tail of the first few plates.

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