The Water Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1904. Bound in full green calf with five raised bands on the spine with gilt lettering to one compartment, and gilt decorative device and ornamental borders to all compartments. Gilt decorated borders to both boards, and board edges. Gilt armorial to teh front board. All edges with green marbling, also to the endpapers. [viii]330 pages.With 100 engraved illustrations by Linley Sambourne.5 X 7.25 inces. Externally a bit rubbed with some cracks starting at the joints. Sine faded. Inside all very good and in good order. Very good. Reprint. Full Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Linley Sambourne.
Synopsis
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its day, and was a mainstay of children's literature through the 1920s, but eventually fell out of favor in part due to its prejudices against Irish, Jews, Catholics, blacks, Americans, and the poor. In the style of Victorian-era novels, The Water-Babies is a didactic moral fable about a young chimney sweep, Tom, who falls into a river and becomes a 'water-baby,' guided by moral teachers through lessons and adventures, eventually earning the right to become human again and being united with an upper-class girl Ellie who had also become a 'water-baby.'
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- Bookseller
- Jacques Gander
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009436
- Title
- The Water Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Illustrator
- Linley Sambourne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co. Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1904
Terms of Sale
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Jacques Gander
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
About Jacques Gander
Out of print, rare and used books. Internet and mail order.
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- Calf
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- Edges
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
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