Author: UPTON, FLORENCE K; UPTON, BERTHA [VERSE]
Title: The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls. 1895
Description: London: Longmans, Green, & Co, [1895]. First Edition. Illustrated hardback board cover with brown cloth spine. 220mm x 280mm (9" x 11"). 64pp. 32 full-page colour illustrations. Pagination errors present: p23, p23*, p24*, p55, p55*, p56*. Indicative of the first edition. In the name of political correctness, Upton's wonderful golliwog - heroic, gentle, gallant and resourceful - has been lumped together with stereotypes and condemned out of hand. In fact, when picture books were filled with images of white-skinned, golden-haired, blue-eyed children, Upton was the first to use an Afro-Caribbean character as the main protagonist.. Worn condition. Cover rubbed and soiled. Title page and page 15/16 replaced with facsimiles .

Keywords: Children's Illustrated Books 1850 - 1900 Antiquarian


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