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Kasson, Gracia & Tschantre, E, Jr.
Tin Tan Tales: A Book for Children.
Publisher: Ernest Nister & E. P. Dutton, London & New York;
Date of Publication: 1902
Stock Code: 12381
First edition. Quarto. With 13 unpaginated board leaves including title-page with photographic portrait roundels of the Authors in childhood; the remaining leaves printed with colour lithographs and verses to both sides. Original red quarter cloth with pictorial paper-covered boards. Spine and boards showing wear to edges and corners, and lightly surface scuffed. A couple of faint marks to inner front cover, and scattered light foxing and fingermarking. No annotation or inscriptions. A very good copy with bright illustrations throughout.
The adventures of the Tin Tans, kitchen implements which come alive in the absence of human company. Characters include tea cups that go swimming, the Wicked Flatirons, Saucy Saucepans and Peter the Eggbeater, all charmingly and imaginatively illustrated, with a few cautionary tales of Tin Tans frozen in the ice chest, and caught in mousetraps! Scarce. £180.00