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The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley, published by Dodd, Mead & Company in 1916, the first edition illustrated with celebrated color plates and line drawings by Golden Age illustrator Jessie Willcox green cloth binding with mounted color cover plate, pictorial endpapers, and tipped-in illustrations throughout, a treasured Victorian fairy tale in one of its most collectible illustrated • Antique hardcover, circa 1916, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York
• Green cloth with gilt lettering and mounted color pastedown
• Color plates plus black-and-green line illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith
• Condition: fair to good for age. Cover soiling and staining, fraying at spine ends, bumped corners, toned page edges, foxing and staining to endpapers and preliminary pages. Structural: front inner hinge cracked with binding webbing exposed; text block holding but fragile
• ***measurements: see photos
