[CHILDREN’S LITERATURE]. SMITH, Jessie Willcox (1863–1935)....
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[CHILDREN’S LITERATURE]. SMITH, Jessie Willcox (1863–1935). Mother Goose. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1914.
Oblong 8vo. 12 color plates including frontispiece, 5 half–tone plates, numerous in–text illustrations. Original black cloth with full pictorial color illustration heightened in gilt mount on upper cover (joint repaired at p. 30, else fine); original pictorial printed presentation box (two flaps detached but present, separation at edges of lid).
FIRST JESSIE WILCOX SMITH EDITION. This work “was an instant success and the series of illustrations ranks among the finest ever rendered for these classic nursery rhymes” (Nudelman, Jessie Wilcox Smith: American Illustrator p. 37). A near fine copy with the RARE PRESENTATION BOX.
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[CHILDREN’S LITERATURE]. SMITH, Jessie Willcox (1863–1935)....
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