LICKLE TICKLE. A Story for Children.

FIRST EDITION (1914) (dated from British Library accession date), small 4to, 215 x 165 mm, 8½ x 6½ inches, cream cloth, bevelled edges, gilt lettered and gilt decorated on upper cover and spine, dramatic coloured onlay of little girl riding a bucking calf (repeated within), illustrated endpapers, different front and rear, 180 pages. 6 beautiful colour plates, plus black and white illustrations in the wide margins throughout. Tickle is a little girl who gets into awful scrapes. Upper cover very lightly soiled along the edges, endpapers lightly browned, occasional very pale marks and pale fingermarks to margins, short closed tear to 2 margins, neatly repaired, no inscriptions. A very good plus copy. Only the first edition has gilt lettering on the upper cover. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.