Rostand, Edmond - The Story of Chanticleer (1913 1st ed)

Rostand, Edmond - The Story of Chanticleer

Adapted from the French by Florence Yates Hann

London: William Heinemann ltd., 1913, first British edition

Original tan cloth with black lettering to spine and upper cover and pictorial decoration (cockerel) on upper cover and spine. Pictorial endpapers.
8 1/4" x 6 1/4" tall
144 Pages

Pretty pictorial endpapers
15 Full page colour plates
10 Full page two-tone (black and red) plates
And approximately 35 in-text illustrations also in black and red
All by J. A. Shepherd

GOOD
Covers lightly worn

Among meadow, overlooking a valley, stood an old farm. The house was overgrown with wisteria, and a low moss-covered wall ran round the farm-buildings; from the fields the tallest flowers could peep over into the yard.
Not far away lay the forest, where sometimes the jays could be heard laughing among the trees.
One summer evening, at the end of a long day of sunshine, when the hens were clucking happily in the farm-yard, and the chickens disputing about a worm, the warm silence down in the valley was broken by the sound of cuckoo!
Cuckoo!.

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