Two well-worn shoe stories scandinavian hand-coloured lithographs depicting well-known personalities

hand-coloured lithographs depicting well-known personalities in various styles of French costume between 1200 and 1713

including the frontispiece

Original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering at spine

With a long inscription on the first endpaper from Sward: "For Peter + Marion - Gift Crab and Queen frequencier into the past frequencier into the future for this day Sunday

Two well-worn shoe stories scandinavian hand-coloured lithographs depicting well-known personalitiesLondon: Sands, 1899. Contains two stories featuring naughty dogs with a penchant for stealing and chewing old shoes, namely "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe" and, drawn by John Hassall, and "Cock a doodle do", by Cecil Aldin. Landscape format. Original cloth backed pictorial boards, edges slightly rubbed, small stain to lower board. Patches of heavy foxing at front interior gutter at join with the titlepage. Colour printed full page