JACK AND JILL by Byron, May

Henry Frowde, London. Collectible - Good. London: Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. (early 1900s). 4to. Unpaginated. Illus. Spine cloth detached and laid in. Boards rubbed and edgeworn (back board more severely), corners bent and frayed. Front hinge open. Child's pencil scribbles, mostly in margins of first text pages; illustrations unmarked. Pages aged. Inquire if you need further information.

London: Henry Frowde / Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1914]. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (hardback). 4to (29cm by 25cm), [52pp]. 24 full-page colour plates by Cecil Aldin, and an illustrated title page. Original boards, with a colour illustration to the front board. The binding has been sympathetically rebacked with a brown cloth spine, there is some rubbing and scuffing of the boards, scattered foxing (affecting the preliminary pages more than the interior), and a gift inscription (dated 1920). Only a good minus copy overall, but the plates are in sound condition. Undated; COPAC gives a date of 1914 or 1915, and confirms that all copies were undated. An uncommon Aldin, with the plates featuring a dog and a cat.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, Henry Frowde. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Aldin, Cecil. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Large format (29 x 25.5cm). Brown cloth spine, blue pictorial boards - front shows black silhouettes of Jack and Jill (dog and cat) in front of full white moon. Cream pictorial endpapers. 24 short chapters each with a colour plate. Book has been rebacked, with original spine and endpapers laid down. Some scuffing to covers; with marks. Bumping to cover edges. Foxing and some grubby marks.