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Children's Illustrators
Here we are celebrating the joy that is Children's Illustrations and Illustrators. From the inimitable EE Shepard to John Tenniel, many of these illustrators' images have become iconic and part of all of our collective consciousness. The world would surely be a poorer place without these pictures. They range wildly in style all the way from Tintin to the darker images of Gustav Dore.
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1919 The Water BabiesNottingham: 1919A wonderfully illustrated copy of Charles Kingsley's popular children's work, with bright, colourful drawings by Jessie Willcox Smith.
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1863 The Water-BabiesLondon : 1863A scarce first edition, first issue of Kingsley's noted work, The Water Babies, with the exceptionally scarce L'envoi leaf.
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1919 The Water BabiesLondon: 1919A colourfully illustrated copy of Kingsley's popular children's book, with illustrated plates by Jessie Willcox Smith.
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1927 The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land BabyLondon: 1927A fantastic illustrated edition of Charles Kingsley's classic of Victorian literature, with plates in colour by Warwick Goble.
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1922 The Water-BabiesLondon and Melbourne: [1922]A charming volume comprising Charles Kingsley's popular novel for children with numerous coloured plates by Harry G. Theaker.
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1919 The Water BabiesNottingham & London: 1919A beautiful later edition of Charles Kingsley's renowned children's work 'The Water Babies', lavishly illustrated with colour plates and complete with a dust wrapper.
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c1917 The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-BabyLondon, Paris and New York: c1917A lovely illustrated edition of this important piece of children's fiction, with a pictorial cover and colour plates by Mabel Lucie Attwell.