Children Busy, Children Glad, Children Naughty, Children Sad.

PYM, T. (Illus)., & [CLIFFORD, Lucy] (Stories by).

Published by London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co:[1881], First edition,, 1881

About this Item

small square 8vo, ii, 40pp, 4 full-page & 15 colour printed illus. to text by T. Pym (all with paper guards), errata leaf tipped-in at rear, leaf design endpapers, orig. cloth backed colour printed pictorial paper boards, with orig. leather corners, slightly rubbed and marked on some extremities. A VG clean copy of the author's scarce first book. Most charming. The pictures are very pretty and the children represented in them like real children as they are to be seen in nurseries. The excellent stories of L.C. display a delicate fancy, and will be read with pleasure, for their literary merit, by grown people as well as children. - The Times, 1883. The English children's writer, novelist, and dramatist Lucy Lane Clfford better known as Mrs. W. K. Clifford, was an English novelist and journalist, and the wife of the philosopher William Kingdon Clifford, whom she met whilst studying art in London. The Clifford's home became a gathering place for distinguished literary and scientific persons of the day, including Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, John Tynall, Thomas Huxley, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, James Russell Lowell, George Eliot, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Violet Hunt and Leslie Stephen.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Children Busy, Children Glad, Children Naughty, Children Sad.
• Publisher: London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co:[1881], First edition,
• Publication Date: 1881
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good