toy book
MY NEW TOY BOOK. Twenty-four coloured engravings.
London, Religious tract society 1881 by inscription Full-page color plates (24) by S. Muir . sm.4to blue gilt and silver pictorial cloth (corners somewhat worn/newer cloth spine/lower cover marked) All Edges Gilt.Titlepage + contents leaf + half title to each of the stories +6pp +6pp +10pp +10pp + 24 color plates + blank guard sheets protecting the plates though there is sometimes feint offsetting of the plates onto these guard sheets - but that is partly what they are there for.The first guard has offsetting of titlepage but also on the recto feint offsetting of the plate of Eva comforting a weeping Topsy. This plate is present but is wrongly bound in at the end of the Story of Eva & Topsy. Inner hinges are strengthened, there is slight paper tanning, some, mostly marginal,tears but without loss of paper. Contains The Children's Garden + The Story of a Goat + The New Pet + The Story of Eva and Topsy which is an extract from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe on the slave trade. Handsome front cover shows scenes from all the stories within in gilt,silver and black. Owner's name Eddie Baggott Dec 25th 1881.

Abbey Antiquarian Books
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GBP 132.00 [Appr.: EURO 158.5 US$ 163.09 | JP¥ 24782]
Keywords: illustrated chromolith stories