THE SEVEN AGES OF CHILDHOOD

Moffat, Yard and Company, 1909

315.00 €

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Details

Year of publication

1909

Place of printing

New York

Author

[Jessie Willcox Smith, Illus.] Wells

Publishers

Moffat, Yard and Company

Edition

SCARCE FIRST EDITION WITH DELIGHTFUL ILLUSTRATIONS OF SWEET

Languages

English

First edition

Yes

Description

First Edition. With 9 full page colour plates, illustrated title-page, drawings in sepia throughout the text,and with illustrated endpapers by Jessie Willcox Smith. 4to, publisher’s original buff-gray cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and with lettering in gilt and a central colour pictorial paste-down by Jessie Willcox Smith on the upper cover. 56 pp. A handsome copy of this scarce title, with some overall age mellowing to the binding but with the gilt and illustration on the spine and cover still well preserved. Internally, the pages are in good order with some very occasional offsetting as is usual, the illustrations clean, though one has edgewear, text-block with separation in the middle of the book, also as typical with the binding.