Maria Edgeworth - The White Pigeon and the MIMIC

London, Allman and Son, 1857. Cloth. A smart new edition of these charming short stories from Anlo-Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth. New edition. Scarce work. With a frontispiece. Two charming short stories from Maria Edgeworth, a prolific Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. During the first decade of the nineteenth century she was one of the most widely read novelists in Britain and Ireland. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and became a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. In the original quarter cloth binding with pictorial chromolithographic boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine with light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with light age toning and the odd spot. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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