BILBY, T (1794-1872) ; R. B. Ridgway. The Nursery Book Containing An Easy Description of Nearly One Hundred Familiar Objects, With Drawings of Each Object.
15 plates (of 16, i.e. lacking one plate). Majority of the plates have been crudely hand coloured.
Interior: Occasional spotting and browning, light soiling in places, LACKING one of the plates.
Exterior: Publisher’s green cloth with faded illustration in gilt to upper board. Spine has been re-backed and repaired at some point. General wear and fading to cloth. Tape repairs hinges inside to front and rear boards.
Although lacking one plate, this is without doubt a VERY RARE and charming juvenile book of the early Victorian period.
8vo. London, Darton and Clark, [c.1840].
PROVENANCE: “Mary Frower, July 17th 1841 a present from Mrs Warren”. (Inscription to rear of front endpaper).
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