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London: Longmans, Green, 1875. Book. Good. Hardback. Signed by Author(s). First. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 377 pages and 8 black and white illustrations complete. Neat inscription to f.e.p. Arthur Horace Todd from Knatchbull-Hugessen, E.H (author) amicus certus in re incerta cernitur (translations A true friend is discerned during an uncertain matter or a true friend is certain when certainty is uncertain (i.e., a friend in need is a friend indeed) (Ennius). Knatchbull-Hugessen served under Gladstone and 1880 was elevated to peerage as Baron Brabourne. His second wife was the niece of Jane Austen. In a letter of 1971, J. R. R. Tolkien recalled that, as a small child, his bedtime reading was the fairy stories of Knatchbull-Hugessen. He recalled especially being read one story of an ogre who catches his dinner by disguising himself as a tree..
Queer Folk. Seven Stories. by *Right Hon. E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen (Lord Brabourne) - 1883
by *Right Hon. E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen (Lord Brabourne)
Queer Folk. Seven Stories.
by *Right Hon. E.H. Knatchbull-Hugessen (Lord Brabourne)
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- Hardcover
London: George Routledge. 1883. Octavo, original decorated cloth boards, illus, pp viii, 357. With vignette and four plates, one of which has been hand-coloured, lacking frontis and one plate. Some damage to the top edge , good condn. Stories for children. Boards.
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Bookseller
Muir Books
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- Illustrator S.E. Waller
- Format/Binding Boards
- Book Condition Used
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher George Routledge
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1883
- Keywords Animals, Childrens Literature
Higgledy-Piggledy or Stories for Everybody and Everybody's Children
by Knatchbull-Hugessen, E.H. Right Hon. M.P
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- Hardcover
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- first
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- Used - Good
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- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
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Reading, United Kingdom
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€239.78
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