Papa's Stories for his Darlings (1877)

Papa's Stories for his Darlings

Little Folks’ Series

New York, London, Paris, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1877

Contributions: Oscar M. Dunham

Illustrations: Ernest Henri Griset (1844-1907)

Hardcover, original half cloth and cardboard decorated covers
12 x 18 cm.
Not paginated [± 60 pages]

GOOD
Corners scratched

Contents:

A kind visit
Learning to read
Feeding the swans
A poor old crow
Dirty hands
Looking at the fire
What the birdies say at christmas-time (poem)
What the birdies do in summer (poem)
Donald and the bird’s nest
Washed ashore
The playthings
Swallows
A young artist
A fairy’s palace
Going to bed
Children in the Swiss valleys

This is a truely hard to find book. Beautiful cover with green/red vines, banner with title name, picture of little girl in old fashioned 1800’s dress/jacket

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