Other editions of book The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

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Kingsley, Charles / Cameron, Katharine. The Water - Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. With Eight Illustrations in Colour by Katharine Cameron. First Edition. London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, [1910]. Large Octavo. Frontispiece, 246 pages with 8 beautiful, tipped-in colour-plates by Glasgow-School-of-Art-illustrator Katharine Cameron. Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher's cloth designed with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and excellent art-nouveau-inspired cover illustration by Katharince Cameron. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor signs of occasional foxing only but overall excellent even inside ! Binding firm with very few signs of rubbing and a very minor lesion to spine only. Endpapers and spine in firm condition and NOT broken ! Bookplate / Exlibris of Evelyn Lazarus to pastedown. Katharine Cameron RWS RE (26 February 1874 – 1965) was a Scottish artist. Born in Hillhead, she studied at the Glasgow School of Art, from 1890 to 1893. She studied at the Atelier Colarossi, with Gustave Courtois. In 1928 she married Arthur Kay. She was a member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists. She exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, from 1894 to 1965. She also worked as a book illustrator. (Wikipedia) Books illustrated included: The Yellow Book (1897), contributor Mary McGregor – Stories of King Arthur’s Knights (Jack, 1905) Charles Kingsley - The Water Babies: Told To The Children by Amy Steedman (Jack,1905) Louey Chisholm - The Storks and Other Stories For The Six Year Old (Jack, 1905) Louey Chisholm – The Enchanted Land(Jack, 1906) Aucassin and Nicolette (12th Century French Song Story) (1908) Amy Steedman – Legends and Stories of Italy (Jack, 1909), Louey Chisholm – In Fairyland: Tales Told Again (Jack, 1910) Louey Chisholm – Celtic Tales Told To The Children (Jack, 1910) James Richmond Aitken – In A City Garden ..

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back [1917]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - English, Pages 356. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. COMPLETE LEATHER WILL COST YOU EXTRA US$ 25 APART FROM THE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. {FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE.}

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.