1897 Miss Mouse and Her Boys

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. With an engraved frontispiece and six full page plates by Leonard Leslie Brooke. Collated complete. Leonard Brooke was a British artist and writer, known for his charming children's illustrations during the late nineteenth century. A lovely children's book by Mrs Molesworth, the pen-name for Mary Louisa Molesworth. Molesworth wrote numerous books for children, notably, 'Tell Me a Story', 'Carrots', and 'The Cuckoo Clock'. She has been called, "the Jane Austen of the nursery". The half title page is present. With the previous owner's ink signature to the front free endpaper dated 1897.