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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.…
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William Heinemann. Fair. Hardcover. A good hardcover without dustwrapper in aged decorative boards with dulled gilt lettering very faded to the spine and spine edges, bumped/rubbed to the spine ends/corners, binding shaken but secure, internally very good without writing or stamps, ivoried pages foxed to the endpapers and pages and soiled to the text-block edges.The Evening Press in a contemporary review stated "The book is a most fascinating one; It exhales a slow country sweetness, a kindly old world love and courtesy". A combination of stories beautifully illustrated with colour frontispiece by Hoppner and 20 additional colour reproductions by Hogarth, Raeburn, Gainsborough, Hogarth, Reynolds and others. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .
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William Heinemann, 1927-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1907 second impression on pink cloth
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