Daddy Darwin's Dovecot by Juliana Horatia Ewing - 1879

London - Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, 1879 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Original pictorial paper covered boards with coloured frontispiece and further plates and in text illustrations. Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing (Gatty) (18421885) was a writer of children's stories, daughter of The Rev. Alfred Gatty and Margaret Gatty, also a writer for children. Among her tales, which have hardly been excelled in sympathetic insight into child-life, and still enjoy undiminished popularity, are: A Flat Iron for a Farthing, Jackanapes, Jan of the Windmill, Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances, and The Story of a Short Life. She was born at Ecclesfield, Yorkshire on August 3, 1841; married June 1, 1867, to Alexander Ewing and died at Bath, May 13, 1885. She was buried at Trull, Somerset, on May 16, 1885. Condition: The binding is generally firm although the cords are exposed in the centre. Both covers are attached. The inner hinges are slightly strained but holding. there is some wear to the extremities including loss to the spine and handling marks to the boards. Internally the book is generally clean and bright apart from some isolated mild spotting. There is an ink inscription to the first blank end paper..