HAPPY PLAYMATES: A Volume of Original Pictures, Stories and Verses Written by G. Manville Fenn, L. T. Meade, E. Everett-Green, F. E. Weatherly, Paul Creswick, L. L. Weedon, Etc. Etc.
And illustrated by Ada Dennis, E. Stuart Hardy, Hilda Robinson, and others. Edited and arranged by Alfred J. Fuller. Pp. 72, 10 plates (4 chromolithographic), plus numerous black & white illustrations, pictorial endpapers; small cr. 4to; red cloth backed pictorial glazed papered boards, slightly soiled, edges lightly worn; hinges starting, free endpapers lightly offset, a few short edge splits, a little light foxing and soiling; Ernest Nister, London and E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, n.d.[c.190-?]. *Other contributors include Clifton Bingham and M. A. Hoyer. Loosely inserted is a chromolithographic Victorian bookplate with a red fabric fringe. Alfred J. Fuller edited several similar volumes for Nister in the 1890s and early twentieth century, including some of the Holiday Annuals. Item #169082
Price: $300.00