Edition: First Edition
Illustrated By: Kate Greenaway
Published By: Griffith And Farran
A beautiful First Edition copy of this early childhood educational volume, published in 1867. The author advocates for active play and outdoor physical activity as essential tools to cultivate the physical, moral, and emotional happiness of young children. Our copy is bound in rich green cloth with decorative embossing to the boards. There is a gilt floral pictorial to the centre of the front board as well as gilt titles to the spine. The book is illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, by Kate Greenaway, complete with its' tissue guard. There are three further plates throughout and a publisher's list to the rear. The book is in overall good condition with the binding still fairly bright despite a little discolouration to the front board. There is a closed tear to the cloth along the front outer hinge and along the top of the spine with fraying to the base. There is a little fraying along the fore-edge of the rear board. A small inscription marks the front free endpaper and there is the very occasional spot of foxing, otherwise the pages are clean. pp. xviii + 183 + 32. The frontispiece illustration is by Kate Greenaway, who was roughly 21 years of age at the time of publication and went on to become one of the most famous and influential British children's book illustrators of the Victorian Era. A rare and fascinating volume.
Book Condition: Good +
Author: William H.G. Kingston
Binding: Cloth
Ref: 123636
Price £285.00
