1981 The Water Babies

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Reproduction of the original edition, 1981. First published, 1863. Illustrated with colour frontispiece and eleven colour plates, with many in-text images. Collated complete. Written as part satire in support of Darwin's On The Origin Of Species, this extremely popular book has become a mainstay of British children's literature for decades. Following a young chimney sweep who falls into a river after being chased out of an upper-class girl's house. He appears to drown and is transformed into a "water-baby" and begins a moral education. Written by Charles Kingsley, an English broad church priest, professor, social reformer, historian, novelist, and poet who was associated with Christian socialism. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, an American illustrator of the Golden Age of American Illustration.