Birthday Book for Children, verses by Mrs. Sale Barker, 1st edition, [1880], twelve colour plates (faintly offset to text), black & white illustrations to text, some manuscript entries, and inscription to presentation leaf dated 1881, blue endpapers, yellow edges, original pictorial beige cloth, mottled, and slightly lifting on upper side, in original Book Post wrapper with printed lettering on front panel 'BOOK POST for the United Kingdom, Threehalfpence' and title below, with dotted lines for adddress, some minor edge-chipping, and split into two at lower joint, 10 x 10cm (4 x 4ins) Schuster & Engen 39(1a). In the extremely rare pre-paid wrapper designed to send the book through the post. (1)
Birthday Book for Children, verses by Mrs. Sale Barker, 1st edition, [1880], twelve colour plates (faintly offset to text), black & white illustrations to text, some manuscript entries, and inscription to presentation leaf dated 1881, blue endpapers, yellow edges, original pictorial beige cloth, mottled, and slightly lifting on upper side, in original Book Post wrapper with printed lettering on front panel 'BOOK POST for the United Kingdom, Threehalfpence' and title below, with dotted lines for adddress, some minor edge-chipping, and split into two at lower joint, 10 x 10cm (4 x 4ins) Schuster & Engen 39(1a). In the extremely rare pre-paid wrapper designed to send the book through the post. (1)
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