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c1910 The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
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Description
Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce
In publisher's original decorative blue cloth binding, with pictorial front board and gilt to top edge.
Includes a colourful frontispiece and 7 further colourful plates by Scottish artist Katharine Cameron, associated with the group of artists known as the Glasgow Girls. Collated, complete.
This charming children's novel by Charles Kingsley was first written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
It was extremely popular in the UK and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades.
It follows the narrative of a young chimney sweep who falls into a river, where he is transformed into a 'water-baby'.
Condition
In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Bumping and fading to spine with rubbing. Shelf wear to extremities of boards, with rubbing and the odd mark. Spotting to endpapers with offset to free endpapers. Ink inscriptions to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are clean and bright with spotting, most significant to the front and rear of the work.
Very Good
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