Todhunter Edith (1 results)

Boards in d.j. 1st Edition. 1st ed., octavo, original green cloth boards with illustration and title in red upper board, b&w illus (full-page and text illus), dec endpapers, pp 40. Partial dustjacket loosely inserted: the front panel is very worn and creased, chipped to the top edge and bottom corner but the illustration is essentially complete; the rear (blank) panel is heavily chipped, and the author's name from the partial spine lacks the very beginning of the 'E'. Boards very clean. Gift inscription front free endpaper, otherwise clean. Very good condition in poor d.j. Scarce. Charmingly illustrated collection of poetry for children. Edith Todhunter and her sister Elizabeth had a small business designing and making bendable dolls - "The Wee Folk". These dolls appear in the book illustrating the poems. From the book: "Illustrations posed by Mr. T. Longworth Cooper, show Wee Folk leather dolls originated and made by Elizabeth Todhunter at Mylne Beck House, Windermere." The book includes a short introduction by Beatrix Potter: "Are there fairies still? Yes, there must be, for these Wee Folk have been photographed! They glide through real meadow grass and troop over a hill. [. . .]" Beatrix Potter is known to have sent the Misses Todhunter signed copies of her books in the 1930s.