Penelope's English Experiences; Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Horncastle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Gay and Bird, 1901. 3rd edition in a format not disimilar to the Dent English Idylls series, reprint, 8vo, 174pp, line illustrations by C E Brock, bottle-green cloth sumptuously lettered and decorated gilt with thistle and rose motif border, all edges gilt; previous owner's book plate on front pastedown and her name repeated on ffep o/w a clean bright example with gilt intact and undiminished in lustre; certainly VG Copy. Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 - August 24, 1923) was an American children's author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the "Silver Street Free Kindergarten"). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. For a time, she lived in Buxton, Maine, which inspired her book (and later play) The Old Peabody Pew. She is now mainly known as a writer of children's books, the best known being The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903). C E Brock of course was an illustrator of great reknown and popularity that has endured until today. This volume is a perfect marriage of talents made all the more successful by the fine example of book production common around the turn of the last century. 3rd Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Brock, C E. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Roger Lucas Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22546
- Title
- Penelope's English Experiences; Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton
- Author
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas
- Illustrator
- Brock, C E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Publisher
- Gay and Bird
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1901
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Fiction, Illustrated Books
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Roger Lucas Booksellers
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Horncastle, Lincolnshire
About Roger Lucas Booksellers
We are a family-based firm of general, out-of-print booksellers with strongish suits in Literature and Literary Criticism, Art & Art History, and New Age Subjects. Horncastle is a small market town at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds about 20 miles East of Lincoln.
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