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KINGSLEY (CHARLES)
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Macmillan, 1863

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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KINGSLEY (CHARLES)

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'L'envoi' leaf, initial and final advertisement leaves, half-title, frontispiece and one other plate by J. Noel Paton, some light spotting, publisher's dark green decorative cloth gilt, t.e.g., 8vo, Macmillan, 1863

Footnotes

An unusually good bright copy of the first issue, with the leaf bearing the poem 'L'Envoi'. Kingsley had second thoughts about his references to "unbelieving Sadducees, and less believing Pharisees" while the book was being printed, but 200 copies came off the press before the leaf was suppressed.

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