The Children And The Pictures

London: Mr. William Heinemann, 1907. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 6.5". Arthur Rackham; William Hogarth; Joshua Reynolds; William Turner; et al.. A richly illustrated first edition of this book for children by Lady Pamela Tennant. In the publisher's original cloth binding. 21 plates including the frontispiece, most of which are colour reproductions of famous portraits by well-known artists such as Reynolds and Hogarth. Collated complete. Viscountess Pamela Grey of Fallodon (born Wyndham; later Pamela Tennant, Baroness Glenconner; 1871-1928), was an English writer of poems, prose and children's literature. She was one of the Wyndham Sisters painted by John Singer Sargent, part of the literary circle known as The Souls, and was friends with Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Edward Burne-Jones. This work is one of her children's books, in which the stories and occasional poems are based around the famous paintings reproduced in the volume. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart, with good colour to the boards, though there is a light stain to the front board and the spine is slightly sunned. Internally, the binding is slightly strained in a couple of places. Pages are generally bright and clean, with spotting to the fore edge that affects the occasional page, and the odd spot to the first few pages. Very Good