Buy this book on-line PEAR TREE PRESS. Janie Legge : A Little Book of Legends for Children. With drawings by John Guthrie (son of the printer, James Guthrie)The Pear Tree Press, Flansham, 1925
First edition, hand-printed at the Pear Tree Press by James Guthrie. Slim 8vo. 17pp. Grey paper-covered boards with a decorated paper title label. John Guthrie provides a title page decoration, a frontispiece and eight header pieces and drawings in the text. Free endpapers lightly browned and spotted, and with a small area of damp staining to the base of the upper board. One gathering just a little tender. A very crisp copy of a handsome production, housed in the original decorated dust wrapper, a little marked, blemished, chafed and chipped with several small areas of edge loss. A series of delightful legends including 'The Legend of the Red Rose', 'An Anemone Legend', 'Legend of the Snowdrop', 'Legend of the Corn Poppies', 'How the Buttercups Came', 'Legends of the Forget-Me-Not', 'The Legend of the Saint-Foin', 'How the Robin Got its Red Breast', 'The Seamless Mantle', 'The Legend of St. Kennach', and 'The Old Black Horse' ("It was Christmas Eve in the quaint old village of Dullington, the shops were gay as gay could be, full of busy little people, and big people too, hurrying to and fro, choosing presents and big fat surprise packets, and all the other good things one has at Christmas").. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of PEAR TREE PRESS. Janie Legge : A Little Book of Legends for Children. With drawings by John Guthrie (son of the printer, James Guthrie). Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out of print books, fine bindings, libri antichi, atlases and first editions. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |