Our Little Sunbeams
1896, with the bookplate of the illustrator, Kenneth M Skeaping
Author
Alice F Jackson, illustrated by Kenneth M Skeaping
Publisher
Jarrold and Sons, London, 1896
Printing Details
First edition. Hardback, bound in decorative cloth. 19 × 12.5cm, 186pp + ads.
Not signed as such but this copy was owned by the illustrator and has his bookplate (designed by himself) to the front pastedown. Kenneth Mathiason Skeaping (1856–1946) was a lithographer, portrait painter and illustrator, and father to sculptor John Skeaping.
A collection of childrens' stories, very much late-Victorian in style, and illustrated throughout by Skeaping.
Condition
Fair condition only. The boards are rubbed and the inner binding is quite heavily pulled particularly to the last few chapters. The pages with some tanning and spotted foxing to margins. However, a nice copy of Skeaping's bookplate.
Price
£30.00
