Poems written for a child
Menella Bute Smedley (1819-1877)
Category
Books
Date
1868
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Bateman's, East Sussex
NT 3183972
Summary
Bibliographic description
ix, 312 p., [16] leaves of plates :. ill. ;. 14 cm. Provenance: Inscribed "Eliza Bedford Gilkes from her loving sisters Emily F & Lucy S. Gilkes May 6th 1869". With a letter laid in dated July 28. 1937: "In reading Mr Kipling's book, Something of Myself, I see that he refers to a book of verse, "blue and fat" which he was never able to identify ... I shall be very glad to give you the book, if you care to have it ... Elsa B. Christy." Binding: publisher's blue sand grain cloth over boards; title on upper cover and spine; publisher in gilt on spine; gilt edges. Boards detached.
Makers and roles
Menella Bute Smedley (1819-1877) Elizabeth Anna Hart (1822-1890) Anne Renier (1911-1988) Fernand Gabriel Renier (1905-1988) Strahan & Company J. E. Taylor and Co