Author: Daphne Allen
Title: The Birth of the Opal: A Child&Apos;S Fancies
Description: London, George Allen & Company, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated with tipped in colour plates by the author, this is a wonderful first edition children's poem authored by child painter Daphne Allen. The first edition of Daphne Allen's charming children's poem.Illustrated with twelve tipped in colour plates, and further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.Published when Allen was only fourteen, Allen was an English artist who achieved recognition at an early age as a painter and illustrator. She later contributed illustrations to several publications including The Illustrated London News, The Sketch and Tatler.A beautiful early twentieth century children's book. In the publisher's original pictorial paper covered boards. Bumping to spine head and tail, with minor marks to boards. Lacking front free endpaper, with front hinge a touch strained. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Daphne Allen. Very Good .

Keywords: The Birth of the Opal Daphne Constance Allen A Child's Visions Daphne Constance Allen Daphne Allen


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