BONNY BAIRNS

by Ida Waugh, Amy Ella Blanchard

$400 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

New York: Worthington Co, 1888. First edition of this collection of rhymes illustrated with darling chromolithographs of Victorian children by Ida Waugh. Very good plus. Item #13895 BONNY BAIRNS lives up to its name: its pages are full of lovely Victorian children frolicking in gardens, playing with toys, and being comforted by their elegant mothers. Ida Waugh paints an idillic picture of upper-middle-class 19th-century

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