HOURS IN MANY LANDS: Stories and Poems by Clifton Bingham, E. Nesbit, Anthony Guest and others.
Illustrated by Frances Brundage, J. Pauline Sunter, Alick P. Ritchie, etc. Pp. 96, 12 chromolithographic plates, plus black & white title page vignette and numerous text illustrations, floral patterned endpapers; cr. 4to; brown cloth backed pictorial glazed papered boards, slightly soiled, with a couple of faint damp marks to lower board, edges of boards lightly worn; inked gift inscription (dated 1900) on verso of upper free endpaper, hinges cracking near centre, a few pages loosening, a little light foxing and soiling; Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, n.d.[1895?]. Tuck's Artistic Series, No. 1113 *The imprint on the title page includes 'Publishers to Her Majesty the Queen', indicating a publication date after 1893, when Tuck was granted the Royal Warrant of Appointment. The publisher's address includes New York, where the firm opened a branch in 1895. Includes poems by Clifton Bingham and two stories by E. Nesbit: The Little Heroine, and Effie's Birthday. The coloured plates, depicting girls of various nations, are by Frances Isabelle Brundage (1854-1937), an American illustrator who worked extensively for Tuck, producing postcards, valentines, etc. She also illustrated novels by Louisa May Alcott, Johanna Spyri and Robert Louis Stevenson. Item #169074
Price: $350.00