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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. SIGNED to title page with additional quote and 2022 date. Unread, but VG only due to knocks at bottom corners, in near fine unclipped jacket. Signed by Author.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Original marbled covered boards over cloth spine with gilt label on spine, 8vo. 48pp., moderate wear to edges. Laid in is a card on which is boldly signed in ink: "Yours truly Edwin Arnold New York, Oct 24. 1891." We could locate no other first edition copies. Very scarce. Edwin Arnold.

In full: "Dear Sir,I do not suppose that any of the accompanying little manuscripts are in your way or that they will suit you but as I consider you and Mr. Clarke as friends who would give me your opinion, perhaps you would kindly tell me who publishes Tracts or penny books. Subjects for tracts often occur to me and I think it an object to make them amuswing as well as improving without which they will not be read by persons not already impressed with the importance of religion and I should therefore whilst in town like to find out who publishes Tracts. I shall hope to have the pleasure of calling on you & Mr. Clark before I go which must be very shortly. I remain, dear sir, your truly M M Sherwood" The final leaf is mounted to a stiff card, a very good excample. From Wikipedia: Mary Martha Sherwood (née Butt; 6 May 1775 22 September 1851) was a prolific and influential writer of children's literature in 19th-century Britain. She composed over 400 books, tracts, magazine articles, and chapbooks. Among her best known works are The History of Little Henry and his Bearer (1814), The History of Henry Milner (182237), and The History of the Fairchild Family (181847). While Sherwood is known primarily for the strong evangelicalism that coloured her early writings, her later works are characterized by common Victorian themes, such as domesticity."The estimated date is based on the fact that quite a number of Sherwood's books were published by Darton and Clark between 1840 and 1850, including several penny chapbooks. Many of her books were reprinted in the United States by the Sunday School Union and American Tract Society.

Manuscript in ink on vellum, signed by the parties, with seals and gutter tabs, Format Size of the frame 46 x 72 cm, matted and box framed with glass on both sides, so that the reverse side can be seen de 500 Autograph.