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Two Years Ago.
London: Macmillan, 1893. 8vo, vi, 469, (1, 2 advertisement) pp. Contemporary inscription from A.E. Conybeare, Eton schoomaster, to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary tree calf, double gilt rules, gilt spine with red and green labels, a handsome copy. More
The Water Babies. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1921]. 4to. x, 240 pp. Publisher's gilt lettered and decorated blue cloth, Christmas gift inscription dated 1921 to the front free endpaper. 12 tipped in colour plates with captioned tissues, further illustrations and decorations in the text Contents slightly shaken but sound, sunning to the spine..... More
The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by... With Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1909. Limited "Edition de Luxe", one of 260 copies. 4to. x, 273, (1) pp. Publisher's gilt lettered and decorated vellum, lacking the silk ties. Frontispiece and 31 colour plates, all tipped in with captioned tissue guards. Neatly recased in the original binding which is quite soiled..... More
Westward Ho! Or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh... Rendered into Modern English by...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. 8vo, (x), 591, (1) pp. 8 plates, marbled endpapers and edges, prize label of Portsmouth Grammar School to paste down. Bound by Bickers & Son in contemporary dark blue calf, gilt rules, spine and arms, spine slightly rubbed and sunned otherwise good. More
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. With... illustrations by J. Noel Paton.
London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1864. Second edition, 8vo, (iv), 378 pp. Frontispiece and one plate, some foxing to early leaves, endpapers with some wear, signatures to fly leaf verso. Original gilt decorated dark green cloth, recently rebacked retaining the original spine. First published the year before... More
The Water-Babies. With... Colour Plates by Harry G. Theaker.
London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, [N.d.]. 4to. 128 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth backed colour illustrated boards, black lettered to the spine, dust jacket replicating the same design, price clipped, early ownership ink stamp to the front free endpaper. 16 colour plates. Very good. Undated, but an early to mid..... More