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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A charming two volume set of popular fiction of the nineteenth century, illustrated in colour throughout by Charles Folkard. A two volume set. In the publisher's original decorative cloth bindings. A set of popular works illustrated by the British book illustrator and comic artist Charles Folkard. Each volume illustrated with eight coloured plates, and in-text line drawings throughout. Collated, complete. Including 'Pinocchio', the new edition, a children's novel following a puppet's dream of becoming a real boy. Pinocchio is acultural icon and one of the most reimagined characters in children's literature. Also with 'The Swiss Family Robinson', a reprint, a novel about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies. The book is the most successful of a large number of "Robinsonade" novels that were written in response to the success of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe . In the publisher's original decorative cloth bindings.Externally, fading to spines, with light bumping to the head and tail. Scarce faint mark to boards. Bookplate of 'S.B. Brett' to front paste down of both volumes. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Charles Folkard (illustrator). book.…