Buy this book on-line MATHERS, HELEN: : COMIN' THRO' THE RYELONDON and GLASGOW.COLLINS CLEAR-TYPE PRESS [n.d. - circa 1910? ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB,1st edn thus.VG+.No owner inscrptn but Sunday School Prize presentation label with name+date (1910), pasted to front pastedown of coloured circular+ectangular illustrations accompanied with ribboned titles,of various other 'children's classics' book titles,the illustrations continued to ffe.[Obviously titles published by Collins in this series: Robinson Crusoe,Swiss Family Robinson,Pickwick Papers,Uncle Tom's Cabin,Pilgrim's Progress Treasure Island amongst others.] Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,bevelled boards,in publisher's original blue-grey,gilt and multi-coloured (blue-grey background with black outlined and red+white) pictorial decorated front board/cover and similar decorated/illustrated spine/backstrip with non-oxidised,bright and crisp,blocked gilt lettered title to a decorated panel to front and bright,crisp,background gilt panel - cloth background coloured lettered title within to spine,rear board/cover plain and undecorated.Boards/cover with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing rubbing or fraying to edges and corners - no nicks,splits,or tears present.Front hinge is solid and sound,rear hinge solid apart from a 1.5cm split to rear pastedown's internal gutter's fold/crease. Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned with very faint,miniscule foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,with minimal, sporadic foxing/spotting and minimal page-edge toning.UK,8vo HB,1st edn thus,3- 432pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table,3 parts/sections Seed Time,Summer and Harvest comprising 21,19 and 13 chapters respectively,four full-colour plates (includes frntis) by A.A. Dixon.
A very presentable and well preserved example,uncommon in as good a grade as this,from the period particularly.
A.A.Dixon [Arthur A. Dixon active 1893- 1931] Figure painter and illustrator who lived in London,Sussex and Hampshire.His book illustrations,mainly in full colour or half-tone,were conventional and prosaic with sentimental overtones,but generally competent.He illustrated books for a very varied amount of contemporary authors and other children's classic literature and Collins Children's Annual,Pearson's Magazine and Tuck's Annual.
Helen Mathers,pen-name of Ellen Buckingham Matthews,1853-1920 a popular English novelist writing between the late 19th and early 20thC.Her debut novel,for which she is best known,Comin' Thro' The Rye was originally and first published as triple decker (a 3 volume set) in 1875.
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