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[ENGLISH CHILDREN’S BOOK] – WARD, F. Fairies and Flowers. Poems by Frances Ward. Illustrations by Maggie. [Preface by Charles Turley].
Description
London, William Heinemann [..], 1911, [8],72,[1] pp. With col. (full-p.) ills. after Maggie[=M. Salcedo]. Square 4to (ca. 24,5 x 22,5 cm.), orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards with dust-wr.
Footnote
¶ Ex bibliotheca Christiaan Kleiss (1924-2015). First edition (printed in London by “Edmund Evans, Ltd. The Racquet Court Press”) with the VERY RARE ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS of a beautiful early 20th-cent. English children’s picture book by Frances Ward illustrated by the French female artist Maggie Salcedo (=ps. of Marguerite Séligmann-Lui, 1890-1959). – Oval portion of front-wr. cut out, early 20th-cent. annotation in black ink (dated 1912) on half-title, occ. sl. foxed/ browned (due to off-setting by the illustrations), but nevertheless in an exceptionally well-preserved condition.
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Description
London, William Heinemann [..], 1911, [8],72,[1] pp. With col. (full-p.) ills. after Maggie[=M. Salcedo]. Square 4to (ca. 24,5 x 22,5 cm.), orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards with dust-wr.
Footnote
¶ Ex bibliotheca Christiaan Kleiss (1924-2015). First edition (printed in London by “Edmund Evans, Ltd. The Racquet Court Press”) with the VERY RARE ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS of a beautiful early 20th-cent. English children’s picture book by Frances Ward illustrated by the French female artist Maggie Salcedo (=ps. of Marguerite Séligmann-Lui, 1890-1959). – Oval portion of front-wr. cut out, early 20th-cent. annotation in black ink (dated 1912) on half-title, occ. sl. foxed/ browned (due to off-setting by the illustrations), but nevertheless in an exceptionally well-preserved condition.
