Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell Charles Kingsley
The Water- Babies; A Fairy Tale for a Land- Baby
Hardcover
(Raphael Tuck Sept. 3, 1894)
Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Early Reprint, no date, circa [1929]. 279pp. + [i] + [viii] publisher's advertisements. Charming and profuse illustrations by the wonderful Mabel Lucie Attwell including frontispiece and 5 further coloured plates, profuse black and white illustrations and chapter head and tail-pieces. Two plates re-attached in situ with tape [removable?] to rear, volume reduced in price accordingly. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind. Beautifully bound in gilt lettered red cloth boards very gently rubbed to spine and rounded to lower corners, tipped-on colour illustration to upper featuring moonlit beach with water-baby on rock. A delightful volume.