CHILDREN’S BOOKS. – Mabel DEARMER. The Cockyolly Bird. The Book of the Play. London: Hod
CHILDREN’S BOOKS. – Mabel DEARMER. The Cockyolly Bird. The Book of the Play. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. First edition, 4to (214 x 163mm.) 10 tipped-in colour plates. (Mild toning, minor staining to preliminaries and first leaves.) Original red pictorial cloth (inner hinge weakened). Provenance: Elizabeth Brown (pencil name to front-free endpaper). – And a further seven volumes (including Eleanor Vere Boyle’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’, [1875], 4to, and her ‘Child’s Play’, 1859, 4to, and ‘Moorland Mousie’, illustrated by Lionel Edwards, 1929, 4to, and Anna Sewell’s ‘Black Beauty’, 1936, 8vo) (8).
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CHILDREN’S BOOKS. – Mabel DEARMER. The Cockyolly Bird. The Book of the Play. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. First edition, 4to (214 x 163mm.) 10 tipped-in colour plates. (Mild toning, minor staining to preliminaries and first leaves.) Original red pictorial cloth (inner hinge weakened). Provenance: Elizabeth Brown (pencil name to front-free endpaper). – And a further seven volumes (including Eleanor Vere Boyle’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’, [1875], 4to, and her ‘Child’s Play’, 1859, 4to, and ‘Moorland Mousie’, illustrated by Lionel Edwards, 1929, 4to, and Anna Sewell’s ‘Black Beauty’, 1936, 8vo) (8).
