Author: VARIOUS
Title: Roadside, Field and Garden - Pictures, Stories and Poems
Description: London, Blackie. 1930, First Edition. Hard Cover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Ill.: Topham; Lloyd, Stanley; Ingall, Joanne. Coloured pictorial boards by Stanley Lloyd which has wear to edges and marks to back. Internally there is foxing to closed edges and sporadically to pages, some darker marks to the margins of a few pages, a neat inscription to front endpaper 'To dear little Margaret with love from Auntie Dolly, September 9th 1932'. Binding is tight with no cracking of hinges. 16 full size colour plates are very clean and bright with numerous other illustrations in the text (of which one page has been neatly coloured in) by many illustrators including Stanley Lloyd, Topham, Joanne Ingall. Not dated but British Library has this as 1930. A most delightfully illustrated children's book of the period and quite uncommon to find in such a tight condition as most tend to have been pulled apart or nearly destroyed. A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST 25. Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Juvenilia, Children's Illustrated Books of the 1930's Topham; Lloyd, Stanley; Ingall, Joanne


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