Lot 417 , Mitford, Mary Russell - Our Village ..., one hundred illus. by Hugh Thomson; publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth, dark green e/ps., ge., cr.8vo. reprinted 1893; Kingsley, Charles - The Water-Babies ...

° Mitford, Mary Russell - Our Village ..., one hundred illus. by Hugh Thomson; publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth, dark green e/ps., ge., cr.8vo. reprinted 1893; Kingsley, Charles - The Water-Babies ...
16 col, plates (by Warwick Goble); gilt-pictorial cloth, med.8vo. 1910; together with other children's and illustrated books

£80-120

Condition:
Mitford - marked foxing free e/p verso and half title, at end pp/255/56, more slightly on title and 1st intro. page, lt. intermittent elsewhere; repr. Dec. 1893 (month after 1st issue); Kingsley - lt. spine damage and sl. discol. mark upper bd. at fore-edge, e/ps and half title foxing, (6)pp. advts, at end; the demy 8vo. cheaper issue; others including Granny's Wonderful Chair (later edtn); Jane Cook's The Sculptor Caught Napping (1899), also a green half morocco In Memorian (1904, sm.8vo.); 16 bks in all. The Brown Fairy Book cloth spine in danger of peeling away from binding; pencil inscription to third page, “Angela, from EPN, Xmas 1904”. Published 1904.

Sold for £120