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The Water Babies (Wonder Colour Series) Hardcover - 1986
by Kingsley, Charles
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The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its day, and was a mainstay of children's literature through the 1920s, but eventually fell out of favor in part due to its prejudices against Irish, Jews, Catholics, blacks, Americans, and the poor.
In the style of Victorian-era novels, The Water-Babies is a didactic moral fable about a young chimney sweep, Tom, who falls into a river and becomes a 'water-baby,' guided by moral teachers through lessons and adventures, eventually earning the right to become human again and being united with an upper-class girl Ellie who had also become a 'water-baby.'
In the style of Victorian-era novels, The Water-Babies is a didactic moral fable about a young chimney sweep, Tom, who falls into a river and becomes a 'water-baby,' guided by moral teachers through lessons and adventures, eventually earning the right to become human again and being united with an upper-class girl Ellie who had also become a 'water-baby.'
First Edition Identification
First edition (London Macmillan and Company 1863) is usually without the L'Envoi leaf as is almost always encountered as the author had it removed from all but the first 200 or so copies. Illustrations in this edition include two full page plates by J. Noel Paton and with a number of small illustrations used throughout as opening initials.
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- Title The Water Babies (Wonder Colour Series)
- Author Kingsley, Charles
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 32
- Language ENG
- Publisher AWARD PUBLICATIONS LTD, London
- Date 1986
- ISBN 9780861631582
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THE WATER BABIES. [Illustrated by Anne Grahame Johnstone.**]
by KINGSLEY**, CHARLES:
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UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn. [Publisher issued a smaller format edn later,in 1996.] FINE.No owner inscrptn.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated boards with colour pictorial artwork illustration to either,by Anne Grahame Jonstone,with blue+black lettering to front boards; a single,colour pictorial illustration to rear board without any text/ lettering other than publishisher's nams+ISBN. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges, corner tips minimally bumped and minisculely rubbed with subsequent reciprocal colour paper losss.Top+ fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight,clean and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread - apart from my own collation.Because of the light paper used,where the signature has been sewn in; to the bottom 2.1/2" of front free endpaper have perforated and become free - the rest is still in situ and still attached/sewn. Further continued use - i.e. page turning - will eventually cause the rest of the front…
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Award Publications, 1986. Very Good Hardcover, As New, Pictorial cover. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. Illus. by Johnstone, Anne Grahame.
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