The Water Babies

248pp, eight colour plates (including frontispiece). Green cloth-covered boards; colour inlay, green design and titles on front, green design and titles on spine. Bumped spine ends, bump at top of rear board. Text block edges foxing. endpapers and first/last page tanning. gift presentation on front free endpaper. Light foxing to prelim pages. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. 8vo. A most attractive copy of this famous children’s classic which tells the story of a Victorian chimney sweep called Tom who falls into a river and drowns after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house.