Product Description
Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co.
, NY,1895.
No DJ as issued.
Ilustrated front cover and spine.
Very good hard cover with all 268 pages tightly bound.
A half inch piece of the cover over the boards is missing from the spine.
Small wear marks on all three of the cover edges.
Noted in pencil on first free page, "Ethel, Christmas, 1899".
Linley Sambourne illustrations with full color plate frontispiece with Tom as a baby underwater cradled in a nautilus shell and a fish in the background.
It has a tissue sheet.
Each chapter begins with a Sambourne B&W illustration.
See photos.
w-4.6, h-6.75, d - 0.9 weight 0.8 lbs ISBN None Box 41 The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water baby.
This 130-year-old book has the green cloth with dark?green Art Nouveau floral stamping, a style Crowell used in the 1890s-early 1900s for their "gift editions.
" This design is consistent with Crowell's 1895-1898 production window.
Crowell issued The Water-Babies in several decorative styles and this one of the earlier and more attractive cloth variants.
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