May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 70

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) KINGSLEY, CHARLES. The Water-Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Frontispiece and one illustration by J. Noel Paton. 8vo, original blue-green cloth with gilt-vignette to front cover, bound by Burn with their ticket, top edges gilt, light rubbing to extremities with lower corners exposed, slight cockling; hinges starting, contents clean; cloth drop-back case. London: Macmillan, 1863
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first edition in book form with "l'envoi" leaf. One of only approximately 200 copies in circulation containing the "L'Envoi" poem before the text. Kingsley decided against its inclusion during the printing, after some copies had already been completed. Osborne p. 359.