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The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

Author(s):

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Good

Dust Jacket:

No

Dust Jacket Condition:

N/A

Dust Jacket Protection:

Edition:

1st Thus

Impression:

Signature:

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Publication Year:

1885

Publication Place:

London, UK

ISBN:

Book ID:

014310

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Stated New Edition, 1st edition thus (with Linley Sambourne’s now classic illustrations). 372pp, with one hundred engraved illustrations. In greenish-blue cloth-covered boards with extensive gilt decoration, lettering and featuring the now famous vignette of the child and dragonfly. All edges gilt. Dark brown endpapers. Boards a worn at edges, rubbed and rounded on corners, fraying around spine and joints. Front hinge cracked, and an A has been penciled on the front free endpaper, some spotting on next leaf and faint, occasional spotting throughout. First published in book form in 1863, this is the first edition of The Water-Babies to feature Sambourne’s illustrations.

Sambourne, Linley

Children’s books, Illustrated Books, vintage books

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

ID: 014310

Price: £104.50

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