(New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1909).

SCARCE FIRST EDITION WITH DELIGHTFUL ILLUSTRATIONS OF SWEET CHILDHOOD BY JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH. A collection of charming verses and illustrations for children. Item #29282

First Edition. With 9 full page colour plates, illustrated title-page, drawings in sepia throughout the text,and with illustrated endpapers by Jessie Willcox Smith. 4to, publisher s original buff-gray cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and with lettering in gilt and a central colour pictorial paste-down by Jessie Willcox Smith on the upper cover. 56 pp. A handsome copy of this scarce title, with some overall age mellowing to the binding but with the gilt and illustration on the spine and cover still well preserved. Internally, the pages are in good order with some very occasional offsetting as is usual, the illustrations clean, though one has edgewear, text-block with separation in the middle of the book, also as typical with the binding.