"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Marigold Garden: Pictures and Rhymes.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1920]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.56. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards with black titles to grey cloth spine. Colour-illustrated endpapers. Heavy pencil notes concerning the publishing history of the book to front pastedown. Corners a little worn and bumped; very light wear to boards and spine. A clean, attractive copy. Near fine. First published in 1885. Frederick Warne purchased the rights to print a number of Routledge's most popular children's books in 1900, including this one, and in 1914 the premises of Edmund Evans printers moved from the long-established Racquet Court on Fleet Street to Rose Place, Globe Road. Item #56587
Price: £75.00
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