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The Water Babies. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
by (WILLCOX SMITH, JESSIE) KINGSLEY, CHARLES:
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- Hardcover
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. ca1921. Hardback, Size 11 x 8.5 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and pictorial designs to spine and front. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some handling marks to cover; a couple of soiling marks and light scratch to rear boards, spine faded and slightly tanned. Rubbing to corners and some small nicks to ends of spine. Endpapers darkened, mild foxing spots to prelims and halftitle page. A couple of small spots to title page else frontis and title clean and bright. some occasional small spots to pages, with some darker foxing to last few pages 230-end. Colour plates and guards all clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 240pp. Illustrated with 12 colour plates tipped-in and mounted plates, all with titled tissue guards. Numerous text illustrations in green tint. Charles Kingsley’s Water Babies, beautifully illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith in a 1930 edition produced for Boots.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91306
- Title
- The Water Babies. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
- Author
- (WILLCOX SMITH, JESSIE) KINGSLEY, CHARLES:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. ca1921
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books Illustrated Books, JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH, Water Babies, CHARLES KINGSLEY, colour plates, 1921, childrens,
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About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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