To Tell the King the Sky is Falling

by Sheila E. Braine, c., Alice B. Woodward

£35 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Blackie & Son Ltd., no date 1896 . Children's illustrated FIRST EDITION. Octavo 21 x 15cm , pp.171 1 . Heavily illustrated with wood engravings by Woodward, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and titles and decoration stamped in white to upper. All edges gilt, and grey endpapers. Front fly-leaf cancelled. Light occasional spotting, otherwise internally clean;

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