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Zustand: Good. Chromolithographed pictorial titlepage +10 pages with text illustrations in color + all text pages with wide foliated decorations surround the text. sq.8vo blue blindstamped and gilt pictorial cloth edges bevelled (spine and edges faded/edges sl.worn/spine seems to have been underlaid retaining original) All Edges Gilt 48pp but lacking first leaf. Printed throughout in sepia and interleaved with blank guard leaves. Pictorial bookplate of Sidney John Robinson. Charming play in verse with kindness to animals as its theme. 1 volume. Hardcover.

Zustand: Gut. 27x20cm um 1870. Blatt sauber, aus älterer Zeitung. Sprache: Englisch,

Cloth. Zustand: Good. T. R. Macquoid (illustrator). First edition. A scarce, first edition of this colourfully illustrated children's tale written in verse, by M. Betham Edwards. First edition. Scarce work. Bound in the publisher's original blue blind-stamped cloth. A charming children's tale surrounding the courtship between a red and a blue bird, taking place in the forest. This work was adapted from a German story with no known author. Compiled and altered by Matilda Betham Edwards, a prolific poet, novelist and children's author. Wonderfully illustrated with a frontispiece and hand coloured page adornments, by T. R. Macquoid. Bound in the publisher's original blue blind-stamped cloth. Externally, very good, with some rubbing to the extremities and a little loss to the backstrip head. Split to the tail of the front joint. Hinges have been reinforced. Ink inscription to the verso of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound, with tape reinforcing the gutter of page 42-3. Pages are bright and clean, with the odd handling mark. Good. book.

Drawn by T.R. Macquoid and F.J. Skill, engraved by M.L. Thomas, 48 x 76 cm, ---folded, little spotted, little damage becauce the foldings.