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London, Routledge, Warne & Routledge 1865 Plates (35) by Arthur Boyd Houghton engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. . Quarto deluxe red blind-stamped morocco leather covers (lacks spine leather/covers detached corners worn leather scuffed) All Edges Gilt and elaborately gauffered All pages on card stock, printed one side only. Each plate with Arabic numbers and each poem with the same number in Roman numerals & Text within rules. The ordinary edition cost "a guinea (or more if bound in morocco)" (cf. Rauri McLean Victorian Book Design p158). *An elaborate Victorian Gift book with especially comissioned poetry by Women Authors to accompany the scenes of children at work, home and play by the "one of the most original geniuses of mid-Victorian England. He was a powerful draughtsman ..and the only artist .. to rival Dore in visual effects" ( Houfe Dictionary of British Book Illustrators).

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