Curly Heads And Long Legs

$950 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd, 1914 . Scarce boxed anthology of stories and verse for children, brightly illustrated by Cowham, whose impish figures threatened for a time to eclipse the popularity of Kate Greenaway's pastel waifs. Near fine in good box. Item #35082 One of the first female illustrators for PUNCH and a friend and peer of Mabel Lucie Attwell, Cowham's distinctive long-legged figures with big hair and

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