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Trio of Children's Stories by Edric Vredenburg:  A Little Blue Jacket; The Cat and the Fiddle, or Tip, Tabby and Torn; Dickey Bird, Esquire.

Trio of Children's Stories by Edric Vredenburg: A Little Blue Jacket; The Cat and the Fiddle, or Tip, Tabby and Torn; Dickey Bird, Esquire.

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Trio of Children's Stories by Edric Vredenburg: A Little Blue Jacket; The Cat and the Fiddle, or Tip, Tabby and Torn; Dickey Bird, Esquire.

by Vredenburg, Edric. Jackson, Helen (Illustrator)

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Boston:: DeWolfe, Fiske & Co,, [1890].. First edition. Very Good. Three titles are here offered as a collection. 'Margaret Nov 22, '01' penciled on ff. of each volume. Very Good. Scuffed boards but sound with bright clean chromolithographed plates. 12mo (12.5 x 15 cm). Color-illustrated paper boards with cloth spines. Stapled. Calico-printed endpapers. Each book with 6 leaves; 8pp with b/w text illustrations and 4 chromolithographs. A nice suite of decorative late 19th century inexpensive cloth covered twelvemo printings of popular children's stories by Boston publishers DeWolfe, Fiske & Co. 1880-1905, who proclaimed in their 1888 catalogue their popular 12mos were 'the best editions ever published for the money." Although unattributed, the fine chromolithographed illustrations are by Helen Jackson whose work was produced by the noted Victorian Printers Raphael Tuck & Sons. (sdrc.lib.uiwa.edu). Boards

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Trio of Children's Stories by Edric Vredenburg: A Little Blue Jacket; The Cat and the Fiddle, or Tip, Tabby and Torn; Dickey Bird, Esquire.
Author
Vredenburg, Edric. Jackson, Helen (Illustrator)
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
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Edition
First edition
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
DeWolfe, Fiske & Co,
Place of Publication
Boston:
Date Published
[1890].
Keywords
chromolithographs children's classics 19th century gift books victoriana 19th cnetury american publishers Jackson, Helen Books

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