Author: [TURNER, ELIZABETH].
Title: The Cowslip; or More Cautionary Stories in Verse.
Description: Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1899. New edition. By the Author of that Much-Admired Little Work Entitled The Daisy. "30 short stories, in verse, providing pearls of parental wisdom and warning the young reader to be obedient, studious, abstemious, free from envy and well behaved, particularly with siblings, and naturally demonstrate due filial piety – or be punished severely. Even crying children are best dealt with by use of the rod. On the other hand, confessions of faults may be met with by forgiveness".(TomRuffles). 15cms x 9.5cms. Pp.67, with thirty engravings by S.Williams, owner's name inkstamp to front free endpaper. Black cloth spine over grey paper-covered boards, boards rubbed with ink blot to lower front and worn corner tips. Good.

Keywords: Elizabeth Turner the Cowslip More Cautionary Stories Verse Poetry Illustrated S Williams Victorian Children 48787 Poetry


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