1925 The Flying Carpet

A charming collection of prose and verse for children, richly illustrated throughout. This is a charming anthology of prose and verse for children that is beautifully illustrated throughout. The anthology includes writings from Thomas Hardy, Herbert Asquith, Sir Walter Raleigh and Denis Mackail amongst others.With illustrations by Mabel Lucie Attwell, J. R. C. Bodley, L. R. Brightwell, H. M. Brock, Harold Earnshaw, Daphne Jerrold, E. Barnard Lintott, Hugh Lofting, George Morrow, Susan Pearse, T. Heath Robinson, Ernest H. Shepard, Dudley Tennant, and A. H. Watson.With four colour plates. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, a little worn. The boards are faded and have some marks and the spine is bumped and a little frayed and faded. There is ink to the front free endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound with bright and clean pages with the occasional spot throughout. Good.