THE CHILDREN'S TREASURY OF PICTURES AND STORIES No. XVIII
Written by Ethel Talbot, Angela Brazil, Robert Hudson, et al, Edward Shirley
Illustrated by Anne Anderson, et al.
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.
THE CHILDREN'S TREASURY OF PICTURES AND STORIES No. XVIII
Written by Ethel Talbot, Angela Brazil, Robert Hudson, et al, Edward Shirley.
Illustrated by Anne Anderson, et al..
Stock no. 1506094
circa.
1917.
Hardback.
Slightly better than good condition.
Red cloth spine with black title and vignette, cream pictorial boards with picture of children in boat in night sky to top half, black title to bottom half. Adverts to rear cover and endpapers. 4 Colour plates by Anderson, b/w text illustrations throughout. Brazil story is While Frank had Measles. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Spine faded. Covers grubby and marked. Light crease to rear cover. Both joints and a couple of hinges cracked. Ink presentation inscription to verso of frontis. Some marks to contents but most pages are clean. A little foxing/browning. All plates present.
Front cover
Contents
- A Charitable Couple by Ethel Talbot
- The New Year
- The Jack-Tar Cornered
- How V.C.'s are won
- John Travers Cornwell, the Boy Hero of Jutland
- Peter John Cobb, V.C.
- Puzzles
- Rural Strategy
- How the Pig was Sold
- How Macac came to the Menagerie
- How a Prisoner of War escaped
- The Roman Wall of Verdun
- The Tiger-snake by Jean Lang
- Ethel at the Zoo
- How We caught the Spy by Edward Shirley
- A Coyote by Argyll Saxby
- A Gallant Rescue
- Jimmy the Inventor
- An Ambulance Driver's Gallant Feat
- The Foundling by Robert Hudson
- Tangle of Wood and his Saw
- The Unexpected by Alice Chesterton
- While Frank had Measles by Angela Brazil
- The Coming of the Tanks
- An Old Heroic Story repeated
- The Family Coach by G. Godfray Sellick
- Some Parlour Games
- A Queer Boy
- Stories of the Italian Compaign
- The Plover by Will H. Oglivie