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[The Religious Tract Society].
The Town and Country Toy Book.
Publisher: The Religious Tract Society, London;
Date of Publication: 1880
Stock Code: 14957
Quarto, pp., [6], [1], 6, 6, printed alternatingly to rectos and versos, and paginated to the printed face only, plus 24 paper-guarded full-page colour-printed plates. Wood-engraved vignette to title-page, decorative borders to preliminaries. Publisher’s emerald-green pebbled cloth; titled in black to spine; elaborately decorated in gilt and black to upper board, with full-colour printed onlay of a bird-of-paradise; all edges gilt. Contemporary gift ownership to one ‘Charles Oxley’, from his aunt ‘Harriet Oxley’, dated 24 January 1882 to front free end-paper. Small ink numeral to corner of title-page. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed, minor shelf-wear to spine-tips. Contents clean and bright. A very well-preserved copy. Four stories for juvenile readers, each illustrated with charming full-colour plates. The first ‘A Visit to the Tower’ depicts Yeoman of the Guard, the State jewels, and Lady Jane Grey locked in the Tower of London. An attractive children’s picture book in a well preserved Victorian decorated trade binding. £150.00