By Alice Corkran
London   Blackie and Son Limited
7.5" by 5" vi, [2], 288, [16]pp
A very smart edition of Alice Corkran's novel for girls with monochrome plates throughout.
By Alice Corkran

1905 Meg's Friend

London   Blackie and Son Limited
7.5" by 5" vi, [2], 288, [16]pp
A very smart edition of Alice Corkran's novel for girls with monochrome plates throughout.
£45.00
: 0.5kgs / : 903Y33

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Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A scarce edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. 

Eight leaves of publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work. 

Undated, dated from a similar copy held at British Library. 

Monochrome frontispiece and five monochrome plates. Collated complete. 

Sunday School Prize to front paste down, dated 1912.

Irish author Alice Corkran, daughter of novelist John Frazer Corkran, wrote children's fiction and was an editor of children's magazines. She also wrote 'Down the Snow Stairs' and 'Joan's Adventures'. 

'Meg's Friend' is another of her stories aimed at young girls, focusing on themes of adolescence and the tribulations of developing into a young woman.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light scattered marks to front board and spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with the odd spot to the fore edge. Sunday school prize book plate to the front paste down.

Very Good Indeed

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