LITTLE ROSY'S VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY undertaken in company with her cousin Charley
by Stahl,P.-J) though no author given on titlepage
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Blockley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Seeley,Jackson & Halliday, 1868. Hardcover. Good. Plates (48) by Froelich. Small quarto red gilt decorative cloth (tips worn/head & foot of spine chipped/sl.marked) about 95pages +48 plates. Entirely printed in sepia - text and plates. Inner hinge repaired with a bit too much glue. Nice inscription and Victorian miniature bookseller's label on FEP. A charming story of two children who imagine that they can discover a new country if they go out of doors alone - every river becomes the Nile every mountain Mont Blanc etc.
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- Bookseller
- Abbey Antiquarian Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- J60686
- Title
- LITTLE ROSY'S VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY undertaken in company with her cousin Charley
- Author
- Stahl,P.-J) though no author given on titlepage
- Illustrator
- Plates (48) by Froelich
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Seeley,Jackson & Halliday
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1868
- Keywords
- childrens illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books and Pop-Ups;
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Abbey Antiquarian Books
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Blockley, Gloucestershire
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