Kingsley Water Babies

KINGSLEY, CH. The Water Babies. London, Hodder and Stoughton, (ca. 1910).
Special edition, well produced and beautifully illustrated, of Kingsley's "Water Babies", which had already been very popular for half a century. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), was a popular literary author and a preacher with a warm interest in the working class. From 1860 to 1869 he taught modern history at Cambridge University. "The Water Babies", first published in 1863, was his most popular children's book, also popular outside England. In the Netherlands it was translated and published by the "Wereldbibliotheek" in about 1910 under the title "De Waterkindertjes". The book was illustrated by a number of artists, the present edition by Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935).
Good copy.- (Binding sl. rubbed, spine discoloured and sl. damaged).
<I>Cotsen Children's Library</I> I, 5680; cf. Gumuchian 3520-3521 (first ed. of 1863, illustrated by Noel Paton); Percy Muir p. 126 (idem); Osborne I, p. 359 (idem, and ed. of 1886, illustrated by Linley Sambourne); not in<I> Die Bilderwelt</I>, or in KLKL; cf. <I>Bibelebontse Berg</I> p. 628 (Dutch ed.).

Large 8vo. Orig. richly gilt illustrated blue cloth. With 12 full-page colour-printed plates, tipped in and protected by tissue paper, and fine vignettes and book-decoration in greyish green throughout, by Jessie Willcox Smith. IX, 240 pp.

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Kingsley, Charles: HYPATIA. London, Edinburgh, New York, Toronto, and Paris: Thomas Nelson ans Sons, Ltd., o.J..
Charles Kingsley was born at Holne Vicarage, Dartmoor, Devon, on the 12th June 1819, educated at King's College, London, and Magdalene College, Cambridge, and died at Eversley, Hampshire, on the 23rd January 1875. His chief works are "Yeast" (1848); "Alton Locke" (1850); "Hypatia" (1853); "Westward Ho!" (1855); "The Heroes" (1856); "The Water Babies" (1863); and "Hereward the Wake" (1866); all of which, except "The Water Babies" are included in the Nelson Classics. "The Water Babies" is issued in Nelson's "Famous Books". - Zustand: gut, mit Gebrauchsspuren, Einband beschabt, Kapitale, Ecken und Kanten bestossen. -

467 (7) S. mit 8 Illustrationen von Helen Monro Kl. 8° (16cm), Ln. (grün),

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Charles Kingsley, free blank flyleaf former owner inscription small edge tear repair, pictorial endpapers red mark: Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for Land Baby ( Water Babies ) J. H. Sears NY ; fester Einband / hard cover

Hard Cover. No Jacket. HB NODJ, Pictorial Color red beige , Black Cloth, Cover minor rub, wear & tiny Chips Extremities, Small scuff mark top Spine, Interior nice, tight clean minor rub, & wear light small stains or Foxing, Early no Date, NF/NF, 244 pgs + ads, NODJ No Jacket Hard Cover

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Kingsley, Charles: His Letters and Memories of His Life. Edited by his wife. 2 vols. in 1 (Collection of British and American Authors vol 2009, 2010). In an attractive contemporary binding - small inscription in old handwriting on frontpage, otherwise clean and tight. Bernhard Tauchnitz,Leipzig 1881.
Kingsley's life was written by his widow in 1877, entitled Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life, and presents a very touching and beautiful picture of her husband, but perhaps hardly does justice to his humour, his wit, his overflowing vitality and boyish fun. Charles Kingsley (July 12, 1819 - January 23, 1875) was an English novelist, particularly associated with the West Country. - He was born in Holne (Devon), the son of a vicar. His brother, Henry Kingsley, also became a novelist. Charles spent his childhood in Clovelly, Devon and was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, before himself going in for the church. From 1844, he was rector of Eversley in Hampshire, and in 1860, he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. His interest in history spilled over into his writings, which include The Heroes (1856), a children's book about Greek mythology, and several historical novels, of which the best known are Hypatia (1853), Hereward the Wake (1865), and Westward Ho! (1855). Kingsley's concern for social reform is illustrated in his great classic, The Water-Babies (1863), a kind of fairytale about a boy chimney-sweep, which retained its popularity well into the 20th century. Furthermore in The Water-Babies he develops in this literary form something as a purgatory, which is very intersting for somebody who understood himself as a rather "Anti-Roman" theologian.

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