The Centennial Frog, and Other Stories

The first edition of this very scarce collection of children's short stories, illustrated throughout with black and white engravings, in the publisher's original pictorial cloth. The first edition in the publisher's original pictorial cloth.A very scarce collection of children's short stories, illustrated throughout with black and white engravings.Further short stories towards the end of the collection written in verse. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Externally, sound. With shelf wear to the extremities and joints, and the odd scratch or mark to boards. Slight lifting and loss of cloth to spine head and tail. Front hinge cracked and strained, text block attached only by one thread. Internally, generally firmly bound. First few leaves fully detached and loosely inserted. Previous bookplate amateurly removed resulting in paper remnants to front paste down. Good Only.