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Lyall, Edna (Ada Ellen Bayly) The Burgess Letters: A Record of Child Life in The Sixties
London Longmans, Green and Co. 1902 First Edition Cloth Very Good
Two young girls in Helmstone, England are discussing marriage and children in their garden. They decide to write letters to their future children describing their own daily lives. Lovely book on a child's country life in the 1860's. Color frontispiece, plus 8 full age glossy black and white illustrations. Titles: How they Came To Be Written, Home: And What Made It; Things That Frighten Us; Gardens, Goats, and Donkey; Sundays; Working Days; Firdale and Golden Hair; Country Holidays; Haytime and Harvest; Christmas and Easter; Very Naughty Children; Mondisfield Hall. Ada Ellen Bayly, Brighton, England (1857-1903, novelist). Lyall wrote 18 novels. Her last novel The Burges Letters draws on her own country childhood. Pale green cloth, color illustrated, two young girls and doll in color, two color title to front board. Mild sunning with rubbing to front board color of young girls still very vibrant.. Insect damage to spine cloth various areas of loss, rear board partially sunned. All edges gilt, worn in places. Old inscription to e.p. Very clean, tightly bound. Tissue covered frontispiece. 142 pp. Small 8 vo. First Edition.
Price:
14.50 USD
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