Robinson Crusoe, The Clever Cats, &c. | A Picture-Book For the Nursery, Containing Sixteen Coloured Illustrations
Defoe, Daniel [Daniel Defoe (c. 1660 - 24 April 1731) born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy].
(Book #ID 97668)
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, 35-36 Paternoster Row, London circa 1880. 1880.
First thus edition hard back binding in publisher's original Wedgwood blue cloth covers, gilt and black title and author lettering to the front cover and the spine. 4to. 11½'' x 9¼''. Printed on one side of the paper with the pages mounted on 'untearable' cloth. Containing the History of Robinson Crusoe (in rhyme), the Clever Cats, and Mother Goose rhymes. Featuring 16 extraordinary richly coloured full page chromolithographs: 4 Robinson Crusoe, 4 of humanised dandy cats (Bob of Belgravia, Tom Talons, Pussina and Fido, Tabby and Carlo), and 8 to accompany Mother Goose Rhymes (Little Polly Flinders, Turn Again Whittington, Rain Rain go to Spain, I Had a Little Husband, This Little Pig Went to Market, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Cross Patch, Young Lambs to Sell). Small amount of thumb marks to the early fore edges and in near Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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