Stories for somebody's darlings.

London & Glasgow, Collins Clear Type Press, n.d. (ca. 1908), in-4to, text on 2 columns, frontispiece + 2 leaves + 150 p., with numerous coloured and b/w illustrations, double page drawing on endpaper (vertical folding at inside hinge starting), hw. dedication on verso of frontispiece: To Billy darling 26-11-1908, original blue cloth, front cover with full page colour illustration and silver title, two-coloured title on spine, all edges gilt, slight rubbing to extremities of spine, hinges and corners, one corner bumped, gilt edges. Very nice, well preserved copy.

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Charming children's book, 57 nice stories, illustrated with in all 4 decorative page-frames and 65 illustrations: 20 full-page watercolour ill. of which 4 in colour (incl. frontispiece), 45 drawings of which 30 in one colour. Some illustrations are signed by its artist like “Rosa C. Petherick", "Harry B. Neilson", "Louis Wain", "Ellam", etc.. In the bottom left margin of the colour illustrations is printed "A.A.S. II.". Image disp.