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The water babies. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
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The Water Babies. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
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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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The Water Babies. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, [c.1921].. 4to. x, 240 pp. Publisher's gilt lettered and decorated blue cloth, Christmas gift inscription dated 1921 to the front free endpaper. 12 tipped in colour plates with captioned tissues, further illustrations and decorations in the text Contents slightly shaken but sound, sunning to the spine with wear to the ends and corners. An early edition illustrated thus.
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The Water Babies. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
by (Smith, Jessie Willcox) ; Kingsley, Charles
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, (n.d.). Smith, Jessie Willcox. Orange cloth, stamped in blue and black, spine slightly faded. 305 pages. 12 tipped-in color plates; light foxing affecting the edges.
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THE WATER - BABIES; By Charles Kingsley / Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
by Kingsley, Charles
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1916. First Edition Thus Illustrated. Pictorial cloth. Near Fine. JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH. Quarto (10 1/4" x 8" x 1 7/8"), green cloth with gold lettering on spine & front cover with circular color lithograph pastedown of water babies playing in the surf by Jessie Willcox Smith, who has illustrated the volume with a colored frontispiece,11 full-page color glossy plates, & in-text black-&-green sketches as headpieces, tailpieces & frequent marginalia; archival mylar added to protect cloth, pictorial endpapers with water-babies riding fish by Smith, 262 pages. Weight: 3 lbs. 11 oz. Overall NEAR FINE CONDITION internally & externally of this marvellous, enduring classic here illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. Solid copy with some moderate cover and edgewear. Bright glossy color plates: all present. A 1/4" spot in lower border edge of plate facing p.344, & a light finger smudge in margin of plate facing p.290. A few light…
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The Water-Babies (Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith) (1916)
by Charles Kingsley
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Dodd, Mead & Company, 1916-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good -/None as issued. Solid copy, 1st edition thus. No writing or marks to text; foxing on fore edge side of closed page edges. Includes 12 full-color plates, tipped in on gray base pages. Green cloth cover with circular color paste down of two water babies playing in a foamy wave. Title, paste down frame and author/illustrator's names are embossed in gilt on front cover; gilt is bright and sharp. Title, author's and publisher's names stamped in gilt on spine; slightly dulled. Some light foxing to front and back endpapers; vintage book plate affixed to front free endpaper but no name is present. Light wear to spine ends and corner tips. Some spotting to cloth on inside fore edge of back cover. Binding is firm and square; hinges are solid. Outstanding illustrations throughout. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a box…
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The Water-Babies (Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith) (1916)
by Kingsley, Charles; Jessie Willcox Smith
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Dodd, Mead & Company. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A Very Good copy of the First Edition. 4to. 362pp., with 12 color plates (including frontispiece; all plates accounted for), and b/w and green vignettes throughout. Original green cloth with gilt titles on spine and front board, with a mounted color cover illustration (two babes frolicking in the surf). Moderate shelfwear, light rubbing at the corners, and soiling along the bottom edge. (binding is tight, hinges are not broken).
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The Water Babies ... Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. F.P
by Kingsley, Charles. Smith, Jessie Willcox
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Hodder & Stoughton: London, 1982. Limited edition . Hardcover. Fine copy in the original guilt-blocked leather. Silk doublure. Fine in all aspects. Physical description: ix. 240 pages; illustrations (color). Tipped-in color plates each with leather press. Subjects: Children's, Juvenile literature. 19th century. Great Britain.
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The Water Babies. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
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London:: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.. 4to. viii, [2], 305, [1] pp. 12 tipped in colour plates by Jessie Willcox Smith, title-vignette and numerous figures. Original full publisher's orange cloth stamped in black and blue; supper corner bumped, corners showing, a hint of wear to spine ends. Rubber-stamp of the Montreux English Library (ffep). Very good. First British edition with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862–63 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's, On The Origin of Species. The book had been intended in part as a satire, a tract against child labor, as well as a serious critique of the closed-minded approaches of many scientists of the day in their response to Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution, which Kingsley had been one of the first to praise. – Holt, Jenny, "'A Partisan…
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THE WATER BABIES.; Illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith
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Hodder & Stoughton,London, [1919]. 4to.pp1x +240,with 12 tipped in colour plates each with a titled tissue guard.. Bound in half tan calf with marbled boards and raised bands.
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