The Water-Babies
by Kingsley, Charles
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. Front board with coloured decorated border of sea creatures and shells, colour illustration of the water-babies to centre, red cloth covered spine sunned, spine edge on rear board browned, chip with loss to spine edge on rear board, rubbed and edgeworn, corners and spine ends bumped and chipped, signed book plate to front pastedown, foxing to endpapers, colour frontispiece of Tom and the Dragonfly, black line illustrations throughout, 5 colour plates bright, pp clean, unmarked, list of publisher's books to rear, page 17 detached from binding at foot otherwise pp secure in binding.. Quarter Cloth. Good. Illus. by Mabel Lucie Attwell. 8vo.
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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- Bookcase
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74689
- Title
- The Water-Babies
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles
- Illustrator
- Mabel Lucie Attwell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens;
- Size
- 8vo
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