Children of Spring Wild animals - Pictorial works Original yellow paper wrappers string-bound

Original yellow paper wrappers string-bound as issued

illustrated with hand colored title page vignette and eight hand colored wood engravings (two engravings on one side of four leaves)

Each story features the adventures of the Brownies during that particular month

Although listed in WorldCat

split chemise seams

Children of Spring Wild animals - Pictorial works Original yellow paper wrappers string-bound(Humphrey, Maud) illustrator. CHILDREN OF SPRING with illustrations in colors and monotint by Maud Humphrey; verses by Edith M. Thomas. New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother, 1888, (1888). FIRST EDITION. 4to 7 5 8" X 10". Light blue stiff paper wrappers with serrated edges, bound with a gold and white cord with title, illustrator and author printed in black on upper wrapper; a celluloid plaque with an embossed image of a young girl, sewn through