Author: MADAME [FÉLICITÉ] DE GENLIS
Title: The Children's Isle.
Description: William Darton, c. 1840. 1st Edition [?]. 12mo. pp. 72> frontispiece and 2 plates. The frontispiece crudely hand coloured. Original yellow printed stiff paper wrappers. Old tape repair to the spine, some staining to plates, front end paper removed and the whole a little shaken. This, the presumed 1st English translation, is rare> no copies are located in the U.K. and only the U.C.L.A. copy in the U.S.A. [a later edition c. 1869]. Madame de Genlis was a French writer and educationalist who counted Louis Philippe, King of France among her pupils.

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