Author: BELLOC. HILLAIRE. ; BLACKWOOD. BASIL. ILLUSTRATES.
Title: CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN. Verses by H. Belloc. Pictures by B. T. B.
Description: Eveliegh Nash. London. No date. 1907. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.7 x 8.1 inches). Illustrated throughout with 86 line drawings by Blackwood. Publishers grey paper covered boards with red lettering and black illustration to the front board. New plain grey paper spine to match. Some minor offsetting to the blank endpapers but overall a clean and tidy copy of this scarce book. ---- Featuring such tales as Jim: Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion, Matilda: Who told Lies, and was Burned to Death, Rebecca: Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably and finishing with one example of how good behaviour would be rewarded; Charles Augustus Fortescue: Who Always Did what was Right, and so Accumulated an Immense Fortune. The book was illustrated by Basil Blackwood, who provided the drawings for several of Belloc?s books.

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