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THE BOOK OF THE CHILD With Facsimiles in Colour by Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green and Stories and Verses Written for the Pictures by Mabel Humphrey
Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, NY, 1903
First Edition
Hard. Condition: Good Plus. 1st. First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1903, Published in October, 1903. Large format folio, 15" x 14", published as a child's lapbook, as shown in the cover illustration. Green cloth backed paper covered boards, with color Smith drawing inset on front and rear covers. Recto printed sheets and seven exquisite, full page color plates - four by Green and three by Smith (plus her cover illustration), along with six headpiece drawings in orange and black by Smith, and six by Green. All plates are present. Stories and verses written for the pictures by Mabel Humphrey. Color process by noted printer Charles W. Beck, Jr., who would have a hand in other Smith publications. The book is very good internally and good plus overall. Pages and plates are clean with no writing or markings, colors and text are strong and sharp, binding is tight. There is wear along the edges and corners of the boards, some scuffing/soiling to covers, with one short, closed tear to the bottom margin of three plates and two of the text sheets. A significant book. Scarce. Size: Folio.
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HC. color illustrations (illustrator). "With Facsimiles of Drawings in Colour by Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green --- And with Stories and Verses Written for the Pictures by Mabel Humphrey." Internally a very good copy, externally the boards exhibit edgewear and and some waterstaining that never got inside. Inscribed on the FFEP "Merry Christmas to Barbara from Aunt Jessie 1903." This signature is not quite what you see from Jessie Willcox Smith, unless it changed over time which happens, and I have not found that she has a niece, Barbara. Of course, Barbara could have been a favorite child Jessie, who never married, may have known. Two very small tears at the bottom of two pages, not affecting anything. Headspieces by both Green and Smith. All seven full page illustrations present and sharp - four by Green (including the frontis) and three by Jessie Willcox Smith. Smith also did the charming front cover, the same illustration repeated on the rear board. UNCOMMON - Happy to Provide Illustrations. good+, pictorial boards (hardcover).
