Author: KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN, E.H. RIGHT HON. M.P.
Title: Higgledy-Piggledy or Stories for Everybody and Everybody's Children
Description: London, Longmans, Green. 1875, First. Hardback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, 377 pages and 8 black and white illustrations complete. Neat inscription to f.e.p. Arthur Horace Todd from Knatchbull-Hugessen, E.H (author) amicus certus in re incerta cernitur (translations A true friend is discerned during an uncertain matter or a true friend is certain when certainty is uncertain (i.e. a friend in need is a friend indeed) (Ennius). Knatchbull-Hugessen served under Gladstone and 1880 was elevated to peerage as Baron Brabourne. His second wife was the niece of Jane Austen. In a letter of 1971, J. R. R. Tolkien recalled that, as a small child, his bedtime reading was the fairy stories of Knatchbull-Hugessen. He recalled especially being read one story of an ogre who catches his dinner by disguising himself as a tree. Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author(s).

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