THE WATER BABIES

Item
23/24
Valentine, heart shaped, gold background, forget me not floral border, artist Brundage, cupids

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. come with and without THE GOLDEN TREASURY LIBRARY on spine, originally issued with an ARTISTIC WRAPPER IN FULL COLOUR originally eight titles but expanded to twenty one, more titles listed but all seem legitimate, some come with Tuck advertising to back pages

Set Covers

Title

THE WATER BABIES

Item Comment

red or green cloth covered boards with pictorial paste down colour illustration, title in gold to spine, on title page THE WATER-BABIES A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY illustrations TOM WAS SO LONELY, TOM AT THE DAME'S SCHOOL, THE FAIRIES TAKE CARE OF TOM, TOM AND MRS. DOASYOUWOULDBEDONEBY, TOM IN THE ISLE OF TOMTODDIES

Type

Hardcover Book

Artist

MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL

Author

CHARLES KINGSLEY

Size

5 x 7.5 in.