“Bo-Peep’s World and Other Stories.” Scarce Victorian/Edwardian oversized antique illustrated fairy tales children’s book. Boston: D Lothrop Company, 1893. Stories by Mrs. M. F. Butts, Margaret Sidney, Henrietta K. Eliot, L. F. Mead, Frances A. Humphrey, and others. Illustrations by E. S. Tucker, Margaret Johnson, and other popular artists. Quarto, quarter blue cloth hardcover with chromolithograph pastedown cover boards, unpaginated. Color chromolithograph frontispiece, black and white plates, and illustrations throughout. Wear to covers, separation of frontispiece, cracked hinges, toning.
~25 x 22 x 3.5cm; 2lb 6oz
Includes, “Polly and the Children,” by Harriet Lothrop (Margaret Sidney), celebrated author of “The Five Little Peppers” series, and contemporary of Louisa May Alcott.
