An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex

by Mrs. Mary Blaize, Randolph Caldecott

$35 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., c.1900. AN ILLUSTRATED PICTURE BOOK. Slim oversized octavo, pp.22. Bound in publisher's decorated paper-covered boards, depicting two men in Georgian attire holding a portrait of a lady in side profile. Front and rear pastedown illustrated with full colour plates. Publisher's advertisement to rear. A lovely copy of a late Victorian children's book, teeming with charming illustrations from Randolph Caldecott. Some spotting

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