DUDLEY, Robert (illustrator). The Twigs or Christmas at Ruddock Hall. London; Castell Brothers. [1890]

Landscape; 8vo.; publisher’s pictorial card covers printed in chromolithography with original silk cord ties to spine; with chromolithographed plates throughout; a fine copy; scarce.

First edition.  A whimsical Victorian tale of a family of robins living at Ruddock Hall. “Ruddock” was a an Old English word for the robin redbreast.

No copies located on the commercial market at the time of cataloguing.