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First impression of the true first edition. Illustrated with sixteen full-page steel engravings by Paul Hardy, including frontispiece, as called for, and also smaller black and white illustrations in the text including 'Noah's Ark'. Also ornately decorated black and white first letters to first word of each new chapter. ***Very good in brown decorative gilt illustrated pictorial cloth-covered bevel-edged boards, with gilt and green illustration and gilt and black decorative titles and rules to spine, and green, gilt and black illustrated and decorative front board. A couple of small surface marks to front board. Sepia leaf illustrated front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Contemporaneous gift inscription in black fountain pen ink to title-page: 'Mrs Willoughby, Lincoln, from a friend'. Very light unobtrusive, sporadic foxing to pages. Edges of boards slightly rubbed and nicked. Crack to gutter of one gathering which is still tight (book is very heavy). Spine tight. Corners of boards slightly rubbed and bumped. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed***196mm x 148mm.***280 pages plus eight-page publisher's adverts of titles for young people to rear. ***''On the afternoon preceding the night on which the one-inch net was found on Noah's eelset, Eve, it will be remembered, left her father's side suddenly after the report of a gun had been heard, to go for a walk. The gun was a signal. It told Eve that Mr Arthur Clifford, who was staying at the rectory, was tired of Grace Leicester's society, and was going to walk to a certain heronry about a mile from the ark, and would be glad of her company.' (Quote form page 99, Chapter VIII: Love's Young Dream). ***First impression of the true first edition, in its original cloth-covered pictorial decorative boards will all sixteen full-page steel engravings, as called for. ***Darley Dale was the pseudonym of writer Francesca Maria Steele. Only three copies of this title are held in libraries in the UK: The British Library, National Library of Scotland and Cambridge University LIbrary. Four copies held in worldwide libraries according to WorldCat, the afore-mentioned libraries with the addition of Stanford University Library, USA. ***Paul Hardy [baptised David Paul Frederick Hardy - 2 Aug 1862 near Bath, Somerset - 2 Jan 1942 Storrington], was an English illustrator, well-known for his regular illustrations in The Strand Magazine and his painting of "Canterbury Pilgrims" (1903), and his drawings were associated with the serials of the writer Samuel Walkey (1871-1953). Paul was the son of David Hardy, also an artist, as was his grandfather, all from an old Yorkshire family. He was born in Bath, later lived in London in 1886, then moved, after marrying two years later to Miss Ida Wilson Clarke, to Bexleyheath, Kent by 1890, and then moved to Chobham in Surrey by 1899. He exhibited paintings in the 1890s, one exhibited at the Royal Academy, but was best-known as an illustrator of magazines such as The Strand and books. ***Of interest to collectors of Francesca Maria Steele (Darley Dale), antiquarian decorative bindings, young people's antiquarian first editions and the steel-engraved illustrations of the artist and illustrator Paul Hardy. An extremely hard to find first edition title, especially in complete collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. ***. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4641
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