Author: Maggie Browne
Title: The Surprising Adventures of Tuppy and Tue
Description: London, Cassell and Company Limited, [1904]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition thus of this scarce fictional children's work by Maggie Browne, with this being one of the earliest books to be illustrated in colour by the legendary illustrator, Arthur Rackham. The first edition thus of this work, the first edition to be printed under this title; the same work was published in 1897 under the title 'Two Old Ladies, Two Foolish Fairies and a Tom Cat' and is famous for being the first book to feature colour illustrations from Arthur Rackham. Scarce.An early work from famed illustrator Arthur Rackham.Illustrated by the famed Arthur Rackham, with a colour frontispiece, monochrome vignettes and full page illustrations and three colour plates. Collated complete.This work was written by Maggie Browne and features a series of charming fantasy stories for children, with appearances from faeries and wizards.The Scotsman' reviewed this work as "a charming story of the fantastical adventures of some very fantastical children". In the publisher's original blue cloth variant. Externally smart with fading to the spine, marks to the boards, bumping to the extremities and slight rubbing to the extremities and joints resulting in very small closed tears to the head and tail of the spine and rear joints starting slightly. Offsetting to the endpapers with a past owner's name in ink to the front pastedown. Internally generally firmly bound with signs of strain in places. Pages generally bright with occasional light spotting. Bookseller's blind stamp to the rear blank. Very Good . Ill.: Arthur Rackham. Very Good .
Keywords: First edition Illustrated Children's fiction Colour plates Illustrated Maggie Browne Arthur Rackham
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Title: The Surprising Adventures of Tuppy and Tue
Description: London, Cassell and Company Limited, [1904]. First edition. Cloth. The first edition thus of this scarce fictional children's work by Maggie Browne, with this being one of the earliest books to be illustrated in colour by the legendary illustrator, Arthur Rackham. The first edition thus of this work, the first edition to be printed under this title; the same work was published in 1897 under the title 'Two Old Ladies, Two Foolish Fairies and a Tom Cat' and is famous for being the first book to feature colour illustrations from Arthur Rackham. Scarce.An early work from famed illustrator Arthur Rackham.Illustrated by the famed Arthur Rackham, with a colour frontispiece, monochrome vignettes and full page illustrations and three colour plates. Collated complete.This work was written by Maggie Browne and features a series of charming fantasy stories for children, with appearances from faeries and wizards.The Scotsman' reviewed this work as "a charming story of the fantastical adventures of some very fantastical children". In the publisher's original blue cloth variant. Externally smart with fading to the spine, marks to the boards, bumping to the extremities and slight rubbing to the extremities and joints resulting in very small closed tears to the head and tail of the spine and rear joints starting slightly. Offsetting to the endpapers with a past owner's name in ink to the front pastedown. Internally generally firmly bound with signs of strain in places. Pages generally bright with occasional light spotting. Bookseller's blind stamp to the rear blank. Very Good . Ill.: Arthur Rackham. Very Good .
Keywords: First edition Illustrated Children's fiction Colour plates Illustrated Maggie Browne Arthur Rackham
Price: GBP 795.00 = appr. US$ 1135.25 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 896Z6
- Book number: 896Z6
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