Set Title: | THE GOLDEN TREASURY LIBRARY |
Set Comment Undated, but approx 1920's-1930's. Red, green or blue cloth covers with pictorial pastedown illustration to front board, and gilt titles to spine. Some titles also come with cheaper linen type cloth cover with no picture. Catalogue to rear pages. Colour plate to frontispiece, plus five full page illustrations in text with several black and white drawings throughout.
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Item Title: | LEGENDS OF ANIMALS FAR & NEAR |
Item Comment illustrations THE MONKEY AT ONCE BECAME SUSPICIOUS (cover), NEVER BEFORE OR SINCE HAS THERE BEEN SUCH A TUG-OF-WAR, INCORONATA WAS A FAVOURITE, HE PERCEIVED THE TRAIN OF PATIENT MULES, IT WAS ONE OF THE STRANGEST SIGHTS THAT EVER WAS, AT LENGTH THE PAINT WAS NEARLY ALL USED UP, IT'S A STRANGE CAT THAT HAS STOLEN IT
Delightful collection of animal stories.
Stories include: Atta Troll, Reynard the Fox, The Resourceful Tortoise, The Hen-Partridge and the Jackass, The Raven's Revenge, How the Hippo lost his Kingdom. | |
Artist: | EDWIN NOBLE |
Author: | ROSE YEATMAN WOOLF |
Size: | 5 x 7.5 in. |
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