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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Curly Heads and Long Legs - Illustrated by Hilda Cowham.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Curly Heads and Long Legs - Illustrated by Hilda Cowham.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

London, Paris , New York: Raphael Tuck, 1914. GREEN BUCKRAM CHILDRENS BOOK. 140 and 8pp of pub. ads.pp 12 colour full-page illus. and many black and white drawing. Verses by Norman Gale. Illus. end-papers. A scarce pre-war childrens illus. book with stories and lovely colour full-page plates, A scarce item. Childrens name filled in to the oblong frame.The front cover is particularly attractive with a full colour pasted illus. set within an illus. green buckram binding and gilt titles and borders. Matching gilt titles on the spine. Illus. end-papers by H. Cownan. Unfaded cloth. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. 3 COPIES ONLY IN COPAC. [Nb there were two variants on the book case with green boards [for sale here] and another with dark brown and white titles.on the front boards.]. 1st edition. Hardback. V.g.. Illus. by Hilda Cowham. 4to.

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd, 1914. Very good.. Scarce anthology of stories and verse for children, brightly illustrated by Cowham, whose impish figures threatened for a time to eclipse the popularity of Kate Greenaway's pastel waifs. One of the first female illustrators for PUNCH and a friend and peer of Mabel Lucie Attwell, Cowham's distinctive long-legged figures with big hair and black stockings had attained an iconic stature by the time CURLY HEADS AND LONG LEGS was published. The Cowham Girl distinguished herself not by fashion and proportion alone, but also by a new degree of physical freedom: she bends, climbs, sprawls, and even slouches. More than one contemporary critic drew attention to the changing fashions in idealized girlhood away from Greenaway's "good, long-skirted, big-bonnetted" types to Cowham's unruly "imps" - a change that met with great popular enthusiasm, with the artist noting, "Very often I get letters from mothers saying that they have dressed their little ones like a… Read More