Author: Clifton Bingham
Title: The Animals&Apos; Trip to the Sea
Description: London, Ernest Nister, c1900. Cloth. A delightfully illustrated children's story about a voyage aboard the fictional 'S.S. Crocodile', written by Clifton Bingham and illustrated by G.H. Thompson. An early twentieth-century humorous children's story about a group of animals going to sea aboard the fictional 'S.S. Crocodile', which was traveling 'from nowhere in particular to anywhere in general&apos.Written by children's writer Clifton Bingham and illustrated by G.H. Thompson. Including four bright full-page illustrations and one double-page illustration in vivid colour, along with numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Collated, and lacking eight colour plates. In the publisher's original pictorial binding.  In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Shelf wear to the boards and a small tidemark to the rear board. Internally, binding loosening throughout, with two pages detached but present. A closed tear to the tail of the third page. Some loss to the tail of the double-paged colour illustration, and some loss to the coloured illustration titled 'In Spite of That They Were All So Ill!&apos. Pages are slightly age-toned to the extremities, with a few handling marks and spots, but are otherwise clean. Good Only . Ill.: G.H. Thompson. Good Only .

Keywords: children's animals trip to the sea stories animals bingham G.H. Thompson


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