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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.'
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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
- Author Charles Kingsley
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Facsimile Editio
- Pages 240
- Language ENG
- Publisher Chancellor, London
- Date 1984
- ISBN 9780907486480
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Chancellor Press, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. Sambourne, Linley . reprint, new edition, with 100 illustrations. the book is shelf rubbed and a bit edge worn. mildly foxed. all pages are clean and presentable. sound binding. ay require extra postage outside South Africa. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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London: Chancellor Press, 1984 52 colour and 253 black & white illustrations; An acount of the British Royal collection by its curator; Hardback: pink cloth decorated in silver, marbled end-papers, title-page printed in black & red; Head and foot of spine slightly bruised, else near fine in vg dustwrapper frayed at foot of spine.
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London: Chancellor Press, 1984. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 240 pages, [48] p. of plates: ill. (some col.), ports., facsims. ; 29 cm. Contents:The Tudors -- The early Stuarts -- Charles I -- The later Stuarts -- The early Hanoverians -- George III -- George IV -- Queen Victoria and Prince Albert -- Modern times. Subjects: Painting Private collections England London. Royal houses Art collections. Great Britain Kings and rulers.
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London: Chancellor Press, 1984 F/F. 4to. original terracotta boards in dustwrapper; pp. 240, with illustrations. Heavy item (1.5kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A fine copy.. New Edition. Hard Cover. F/F.
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Chancellor, 1984. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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The Water Babies; A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
by Kingsley, Charles (Illustrations by Linley Sambourne.)
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London: Chancellor Press [0-907486-48-7] 1984, facsimile edition. (Square hardcover) 371pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration on the front cover and spine. Illustrations. The covers are lightly shelfworn, edges and corners more so. Illustrations by Linley Sambourne. (Juvenile).
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The Water Babies
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Chancellor, new edition 1984. Hbk square 8vo 380pp facsimile of the 1885 edition no dj as issued illustr fine blue cloth boards with bright gilt titles and ornament now in custom acetate jacket front endpaper unaccountably clipped at the lower corner otherwise an excellent clean tight unmarked copy as new
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