When All is Young by Mack, Robert Ellice

Ernest Nister, 1888. Hardcover. Good. . Some tanning/dust wear to boards. General shelf/age wear. Pages a bit tanned but clean.

London: Ernest Nister, 1888. Bound in original pictorial glazed boards with green cloth spine. Printed in Nuremberg. Undated, likely 1888 first and only edition edition. Unpaginated, with 48 pages. Delightfully illustrated with 16 full page chromolithographs plus eight more chromolithographs on the text, with a further 36 sepia toned illustrations, Verse text by Robert Mack and illustrations by Harriett Bennett. Externally the corners and edges are rubbed. Inside all quite clean and in good order throughout, lacking the rear free endpaper.Overall a good copy of this classic Victorian children's illustrated book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Harriett M. Bennett.

Published by Ernest Nister, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1890 (Circa.). Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Bennett, Harriett M.. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Green cloth spine, pictorial paper boards show young girl in a blue & white pinafore holding a baby and watching a kitten and puppy at her feet. Verse for children. Colour chromolithographic illustrations plus two tone illustrations. Bumping and wear to cover edges, corners and spine. Scuffing and marks to covers. Has possibly been rebound or restitched at some point; the front fly-leaf is now missing. Foxing and marks to pages throughout. Illustrations are still bright.

London: Ernest Nister, 1111. Presumed reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. quarto. Bennett, Harriet M. Type: Book Prior owner inscription to flyleaf. Published circa 1885.

London: Ernest Nister, 1888. Illustrated by Harriett M. Bennett. Pp. [52], chromolithographic frontispiece, pictorial title page and numerous illustrations (several full page), plus tinted text illustrations printed in light blue & brown; small cr. 4to; green cloth backed pictorial glazed papered boards, slightly soiled, edges lightly worn; bookseller's sticker at head of upper pastedown, early inked gift inscription (dated 1888) on upper free endpaper, hinges cracking, a little faint browning and soiling; Ernest Nister and E. P. Dutton & Co., London & New York, [1888?]. *Printed by Ernest Nister at Nuremberg. Nister established a London office in 1888, and published several books by Robert Ellice Mack. Harriett M. Bennett was a painter and illustrator of children's books who exhibited several paintings at The Royal Academy between 1877 and 1892.