Babes and Beasts.Verses by Jessie Pope. Designed by Charles Robinson.
London & Glasgow.Blackie and Son Ltd. N.d. [1912]? Hardcover. 12mo. 18cm, (72)p., colour frontis,3 colour vignettes, 16 full-page colour plates, 48 colour textillustrations, illustrated endpapers, quarter red cloth backed colourillustrated paper over boards, gilt spine titles & decoration, stapled,illustrated endpapers, printed on one side and not opened on the foreedge, rear hinge broken, front board corners rubbed, small tear to uppertitle page, inscription on front free endpaper, very good to fine (Chds). - A scarce children's book to accompany Pope and Robinson's "Babes andBirds" (1910). The plates are fine examples early 20th century colourbook illustrations. Charles Robinson was a prolific English illustratorof children's books and fairy tales. The many animal illustrationthroughout the book are by S.T, Dadd. WorldCat locates 2 copies, oneindicating 1912, the other 1916. Item #30368
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