Product Description
Condition Very Good: Original cloth binding shows moderate rubbing to edges and corners, with bumping, minor chips to extremities, and light marks and staining. Spine sunned, with shelf wear to head and foot. Binding slightly shaken but fully intact. Internally, pages show light foxing, otherwise clean and bright. Pencil inscription present in endpapers. Illustrated plates protected by their original tissue guards, all fully intact. Overall, a sound and complete copy. Description First edition, David Bogue, 1847. Original cloth-bound hardback. Early works by the Brothers Mayhew are increasingly scarce, particularly in their original bindings. The survival of the illustrated plates with intact tissue guards, combined with the publisher's advertisement leaf at the rear, adds bibliographic completeness and collector appeal. This mid-19th-century imprint is desirable to collectors of Victorian juvenile literature and early popular publishing. The Good Genius That Turned Everything Into Gold is a moral and imaginative tale typical of mid-Victorian children's literature, blending fantasy and instructive themes. It reflects the era's interest in entertaining young readers while imparting lessons about fortune, consequence, and character.
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