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c1927 The Water-Babies
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce, With Dustwrapper
This edition was first published in 1915 with twelve colour plates. This is a later edition, issued with only six plates.
In a very scarce unclipped dust wrapper.
Illustrated with six colour plates and further vignette illustrations from Mabel Lucie Attwell. Collated, complete.
An abridged edition of Kingsley's work, written in part to support Kingsley's friend Charles Darwin and his contentious work 'On the Origins of Species'.
While thematically concerned with Christian redemption, within his book Kingsley confronts both England's treatment of its poor and the practice of child labour.
Undated; dated circa 1927 via the TuckDB Ephemera database.
Child's inscription to front free endpaper.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards, with unclipped dust wrapper. Shelf wear to back strip tail, with handling marks to boards. Former owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper back strip age toned. Losses to back strip head and tail and head of front wrap. Hole to back strip. Handling marks and spotting to wraps. Significant closed tear to front wrap, repaired with tape to reverse. Tape repair to back strip reverse. Internally, firmly bound, but with one plate detached and loosely inserted. Pages bright, with only the odd spot.
Very Good
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