Elf /
Jeanie Hering, Mrs Adams Acton (1846-1928)
Category
Books
Date
1887
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Nymans Estate, West Sussex
NT 3194838
Summary
Bibliographic description
187, [1], 3-6p, 6 plates :. ill. ;. 19cm. With a folded leaf of pen and ink drawings and text for children on notepaper headed 104, Lancaster Gate, W., beginning "This is a story about Mr. Foggy - Mr. Fogy without the two g's". With a card (one of the "Practical" series of embroidery cards") with a painted picture of a lion. Provenance: inscribed "To Maudie with Mrs Burnand's love & wishes Xmas 1886" [i.e. Rosina Burnand, second wife of F.C. Burnand, editor of Punch, (d.1924)]. Binding: publisher's blue cloth, elaboratedly decorated in red and gold floral design; gold-lettered.
Makers and roles
Jeanie Hering, Mrs Adams Acton (1846-1928) Alfred W Cooper