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c1890 Jackanapes; The Story of a Short Life; Daddy Darwin's Dovecot
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Description
Illustrated, Leather Binding, Prize Binding, Rebound, Signed Binding
Dated via Jisc. Containing two children's stories in one volume, rebacked prize binding from Queen's School of Chester with bookplate to front pastedown, undated.
Juliana Horatia Ewing was an English children's writer; her work is notable for her sympathetic insight into the life of a child, admiration for military thing, and a reflection of her strong Anglican faith.
Featuring Jackanapes with illustrations by Randolph Caldecott and The Story of a Short Life with illustrations by Gordon Browne, and Daddy Darwin's Dovecot with illustrations by Randolph Caldecott.
One leaf of advertisements to rear of Jackanapes. Tales complete with half titles. With coloured frontispiece to Daddy Darwin's Dovecot.
Signed binding by W. F. Healey & Co., with their embossed stamp to a front blank leaf.
Condition
Rebacked in half calf prize binding over marbled boards, renewed endpapers. Queen's School prize bookplate to front pastedown, Egerton Parker's pictorial bookplate to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Minor light spotting to odd leaf, pages otherwise generally very clean throughout.
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