GILMOUR, Margaret (author). Lilian A. GOVEY (illustrator). The Seven Little Spillikins. London; George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1926
£90.00
8vo.; publisher’s buff paper-covered boards with full-size pictorial label to upper cover, double-page pictorial endpapers in colours; pp. [64]; with pictorial title in colours, letterpress title in red and black, monochrome pictorial borders to the versos and a total of 30 delightful coloured plates; a near fine copy with some fading to boards; internally very fresh.
First edition. “Spillikins” is a term for a children’s game with wooden sticks but here the word is applied to the seven siblings who get into all sorts of scrapes when tasked with looking after the baby of the family.
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