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Arthur’s Temptation, Or a Bad Beginning

Author(s):

Leslie, Emma

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Good

Dust Jacket:

Dust Jacket Condition:

N/A

Dust Jacket Protection:

N/A

Edition:

–

Impression:

–

Signature:

None

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Blackie & Son

Publication Year:

–

Publication Place:

London, UK

ISBN:

–

Book ID:

045540

Catalogue(s):

Children’s Books – Vintage ◇ Decorative and Pictorial Bindings

£11.60

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Undated, but circa 1900. 128, 16pp of publisher’s adverts, colour plate frontispiece. Pictorial cloth binding, with illustrations front and spine. 12mo. Cloth a little faded, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Text block edges dust dulled and a little spotted. Endpapers tanned and some spotting on first and last few leaves; gutter cracked ahead of title page. Prize presentation plate on the front paste down indicating that the volume was awarded to Tom Cutts, for attendance, at Writtle Infants’ Council School on Empire Day, 1912.

An example of typical late Victorian moralistic fiction for younger readers from the prolific 19th century author, Emma Leslie (1837-1909)

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