AINSLIE, Kathleen (author and illustrator). Oh! Poor Amelia Jane! London; Castell Brothers Ltd. [1905]

8vo., 120 x 173 mm); publisher’s pictorial card covers printed in chromolithography with designs to both panels, burgundy silk cord ties; pp. [28]; with letterpress title-page and text throughout printed in grey, in cursive font, together with 14 chromolithographed plates; a very pleasing copy with dusting and tanning to cover, soiling to ties as usual, foxing to a few leaves but generally very good, with a weak lateral crease to upper cover.

First edition.  Ainslie’s account of the misadventures of the young girl Amelia Jane, owner of the Dutch doll, Catharine Susan, who features in the peg doll books by this artist.  

Here the child suffers a series of mishaps while stumbling through her morning routine, picking mushrooms, collecting eggs, feeding the ducks, bringing in the washing, etc.