The Children's Corner.
Philadelphia: David McKay, 604-5 Washington Square,London: Augener, Ltd; [1915/1914, US] early printing "Old Dutch Nursery Rhymes, 1917 mentioned on last page, of ads, but not on jacket; book and jacket printed in England; beige cloth binding with gilt titles and oval plate with blind-stamped border of princess in orange robes with little birds; round pasted-on frontis and 15 pasted-on coloured plates on thick paper, each facing a poem; in grey soft paper jacket with same pasted-on plate and gilt titles, book list on front flap, rear flap blank; oblong 10x8.5. Picture Book hardback.
Very honest, sweet paintings of incidents in children's lives, in delicate colours with simple arts and crafts backgrounds. It seems to me that these children, like those of her mentor de Monvel, have more character than her usual. A treasure.
CONDITION: Good Plus in Good Minus jacket; 1924 gift inscription, boards extremely clean with bright gilt and white plate, but on close inspection a slight moisture wrinkle affects 2" of all top edge; pages very clean and unwrinkled w one almost 2" closed margin tear; in jacket with little loss of paper but soiled front and major tears on spine crease and back, looks much better in protector than not. Item #19557
Price: $100.00