THE SEVEN PLAITS OF NETTLES

Item
5/6
Valentine, heart shaped, gold background, forget me not floral border, artist Brundage, cupids

THE CHILDREN'S GEM LIBRARY

Set Comment

CHILDREN'S STORIES BY POPULAR AUTHORS. A SERIES OF SIX CLOTH BOUND STORY BOOKS BY THE MOST POPULAR WRITERS FOR CHILDREN. ALL THE ABOVE ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR AND BLACK AND WHITE. 64 PAGES, 2c EACH. COMPLETE, IN A NEAT CASE, 1.50$ part of a larger series also called THE GEM LIBRARY SERIES, cloth covered boards in various colours with elaborate floral design and banner rising from a pot in the lower right of the front cover, black illustration embossed below title in a banner, title also printed on spine, RTS easel and palette artistic series trademark on back cover, RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS, LTD. LONDON. PARIS. NEW YORK. PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING & QUEEN & TO T. R.H. THE PRINCE & PRINCESS OF WALES. 64 pages, plus pages of Tuck advertising at back giving lists of other books available for sale -these adverts vary according to edition

Set Covers

Title

THE SEVEN PLAITS OF NETTLES

Item Comment

dark red cloth covers with title in gold decorative banner, one color plate frontispiece titled THE FAIRY'S VISIT, with many black and white in text illustrations, contains five stories titled THE SEVEN PLAITS OF NETTLES, WHEN OUR SHIP COMES HOME, THE GOLDEN WISH, THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, and THE THREE SNOWFLAKES

Type

Hardcover Book

Artist

T. NOYES LEWIS, HILDA COWHAM, ETC., ETC.

Author

EDRIC VREDENBURG

Size

4.5 x 6.5 in.