The Bad Child's Book of Beasts and More Beasts for Worse Children 2 book set
New York: Alfred A Knopf, red cloth (Bad Beasts 1965/1896) along with green gold cloth (More Beasts1966/1897) Both books have patterned endpapers and titles in text matching their cloth and are in ivory jackets of the same design with green gold (Bad Beasts) and red (More Beasts) panels with some smaller titles in the opposite colour, very carefully thought out but a bit too subtle for me!, but also marvellous line drawings of the beasts; 6.5x8.5; 46 pp. Juvenile hardback.
"Do not as evil children do/Who on the slightest grounds/Will imitate the kangaroo/With wild unmeaning bounds" Bad Child's wonderful verses were published for Knopf's 50th anniversary with a foreword by Frances Clarke Sayers. The matching More Beasts came out a year later with a foreword by Rosemary Livsey.
CONDITION: Fine in Very Good jackets; no names or other marks, both books straight and very clean and tight; both clean jackets have wear at darkened spine ends to 1/4 "; both unclipped 3.25. Item #21439
$95