DADDY DARWIN'S DOVECOT by Ewing, Juliana Horatia

London: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge. Hardcover. Fair. Randolph Caldecott. Printed paper boards. Spine missing so the cloth webbing is now the spine. Front and rear printed boards legible. Half title page loose but present. Neat ink signature. Color frontispiece. Some pages show soiling in spots. Cost one shilling. About 1880"s.

Boston: Roberts Bros , 1885. Exterior only fair. Worn, stained covers with owner's name in ink on front cover. Interior very good with giver's inscription dated "Xmas 1885" on first free endpaper. but text clean & bright.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Randolph Caldecott.

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 52 pages. Illustrated card hardback with blue cloth spine. Black & white illustrations. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier tanning to endpaper & pastedowns. Thumb-marking present. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Book has forward lean. Sticker marking to front.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Hardback. Good+. Randolph Caldecott. Pictorial boards, spine and corners bumped. Top and bottom of spine slightly frayed. Tan marks to FFEP, colour illustrated plate to frontispiece. 52pp. All pages clean and bright. Size: 8 x 6 Inches Approx

Boston: Roberts Brothers. VG. 1892. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition bound in brown boards with red lettering & designs. Illu strated, 62 pages + ads. A VG copy, fragile boards have mild rubbing t o the edges and the spine. Slightly faded rear board. Hinges tight, te xt clean. .

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; London, no date. Early printing. Hardcover. good plus/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 52 pages; dark red quarter over spine, illustrated paper over boards; frontispiece in color and with b&w illustrations throughout. A good, otherwise clean, hardcover copy, cover paper darkened with hand soiling and worn through at the fore-corner tips; hinges and binding solid, paper clean and just moderately yellowed with a previous owner's inscription on the front free end paper with date penned 1934.

London: Soc. for Promting Christian Knowledge, c. 1890. Hardcover. Good. 6 x 9 in. Cloth and paper. Condition is GOOD ; front joint started with some pgs pulling away. Child's scrawls on ffep. Gift message on title pg. Child. Stax.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Fair copy in illustrated paper on boards. Spine rather grubby and board edges are chipped. Though overall sound. Endpapers free on inscriptions with clean text and illustrations.

London, Society for Promoting Christain Knowledge, nd ( c 1980's?);. Hardback. 8.5" x 6". Good/ No dust jacket. 52pp with coloured frontis. & numerous brown line drawings by Randolph Caldecott. Lacks ffep. Original cream pictorial card boards with slight edge wear. Spine has small piece ( 1/2") missing from bottom of spine. Internally bright & clean. .

London, Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge Circa 1899. Good. Paper covered card boards. Illustrated by. Caldecott, Randolph, Pictorial paper-covered boards. General signs of wear in the form of rubbng, background soiling, chipped to extremities, clearly this book has been enjoyed by previous owners but it is a good clean and acceptable condition, faded name and date for a previous dated December 1899, picture to front cover shows a family releasing pigeons or doves, Coloured frontispiece, 52 pages, black and white line drawings. Size 8.25 x 6.00 inches approx. .