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The Water Babies
de Kingsley, Charles
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/No Jacket
- Librería
-
Westbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London & Cambridge: Macmillan, 1863. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/No Jacket. First edition, first issue, 8vo (190 x 134mm.) Complete with the half-title, 2 engraved plates by J. Noel Paton, and 'L'Envoi' leaf at B1. minor very occasional light soiling, 1 plate slightly trimmed lower margin with minor chipping, very light spotting to rear endpaper, bound without advertisement leaf. 20th century red straight-grain half morocco with renewed front-free endpaper. Note: Kingsley suppressed the 'L'Envoi' leaf after the first 200 copies were printed. Provenance: Emily C. Beauchamp - name inscribed to initial blank.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- finecopy ltd
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 110488
- Título
- The Water Babies
- Autor
- Kingsley, Charles
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- London & Cambridge: Macmillan, 1863
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- Jacket
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- Chipping
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- First Edition
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- Plate
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- Morocco
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