ALL ROUND THE CLOCK.
by MACK, Robert Ellice (poems). Illustrated by Harriet M. Bennett..:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Griffith, Farran & Co., lithographed and printed by Ernest Nister of Nuremberg, (1887).. FIRST EDITION (1887), small 4to, 235 x 185 mm, 9¼ x 7 inches, cloth backed cream boards with coloured illustration of 3 children watching a cuckoo clock, coloured vignette of small child lying in a meadow on lower cover, floral endpapers, 64 pages. Chromolitho frontispiece, title page and 21 very pretty chromolitho plates of young children all by Harriet M. Bennett. Numerous very pretty sepia text illustrations also by her. Expertly recased and restitched, preserving the original endpapers, spine slightly rubbed at head and tail and slightly marked, corners slightly worn with tiny loss of surface at tips, small crack to surface paper on upper cover next to head of spine, no loss, free endpapers slightly browned, occasional small pale mark to margins, otherwise contents very nice. A very good tight bright copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46694
- Title
- ALL ROUND THE CLOCK.
- Author
- MACK, Robert Ellice (poems). Illustrated by Harriet M. Bennett..:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Griffith, Farran & Co., lithographed and printed by Ernest Nister of Nuremberg, (1887).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- chromolithographs ernest nister Harriet M. Bennett cuckoo clock children's picture book
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