Author: BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON.
Title: Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Description: London: Frederick Warne and Co, nd. (c.1910). . "Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by the English-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, her first children's novel. It was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's (the publisher of St. Nicholas) in 1886. The illustrations by Reginald B. Birch set fashion trends and the novel set a precedent in copyright law when Burnett won a lawsuit in 1888 against E. V. Seebohm over the rights to theatrical adaptations of the work." (wiki). Pp.xii/269/6 (publisher's catalogue), frontispiece + 2 vignettes and 23 further drawings by Reginald B. Birch, gift message and owner's name to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers. Bright red illustrated cloth with gilt title to front and spine, minor wear to top and tail of spine + minor bumps to corner tips. VG.

Keywords: Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy Victorian American English Fiction 50118 Childrens Fiction


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