c1910 Sea Shore; Stars; Butterflies; Sculpture; Architecture; The Earth; Work and Workers; Beasts; Nests and Eggs; Insects; Flowers; Railway; Painting; The Farm

Description

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

Fourteen volumes of publisher T. C. and E. C. Jack's delightful 'Shown to the Children' series, introducing children to a wide range of topics through illustrations and simple but engaging description from various authors with an appropriate background.

Featured here are Janet Harvey Kelman and Rev. Theodore Wood's 'Sea Shore' and 'Butterflies and Moths'; astronomer Ellison Hawks' 'Stars' and 'The Earth'; R. N. D. Wilson's 'Sculpture'; Gladys Wynne's 'Architecture'; Arthur O. Cooke's 'Work and Workers' and 'Insects'; Percy J. Billinghurst and Lena Dalkeith's 'Beasts'; A. H. Blaikie and J. A. Henderson's 'Nests and Eggs'; C. E. Smith's 'Flowers'; George S. Dickson's 'Railway'; Lawrence Wilson's 'Painting', and Foster Meadow's 'The Farm'

Each volume features numerous illustrations, with nine of these volumes featuring numerous colour plates.

While these editions are all undated, they can be identified as published circa 1910 via Copac.