1905 Madam How and Lady Why or First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children

Name: 1905 Madame How and Lady Why
SKU: 821A21
Price: 160 GBP
Availability: InStock

Published: London Macmillan and Co.

Size: 7.5" by 5" Pagination: xii, [3], 270pp.

Charles Kingsley's classic juvenile work in a charmingly leather-bound.

£160.00

weight: 0.75kgs / stock code: 821A21

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Description

Leather Binding, Rebound

Charles Kingsley's children's work concerning natural phenomenon and educating the young on geology and the earth. A later edition of this interesting work.

Charles Kingsley was an author known for his work Water Babies, and a historian, friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin.

With illustrations in text.

Featuring Richard Pearse Chope's bookplate to front pastedown, British civil servant and Devon antiquarian.

Condition

Rebound in half calf over cloth covered boards, with five raised bands, gilt tooling to spine, gilt to top edge, renewed marbled endpapers. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only. Pershouse bookplate to front pastedown. Richard Pearse Chope's bookplate to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean.

Overall: Near Fine

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