1980, ISBN: 9780333290583

London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd, 1980. Facsimile Edition, First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Cloth/Boards with Gilt Motif and lettering. As New/very good. H. M. Brock. First published in 1… mais…

London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd, 1980. Facsimile Edition, First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Cloth/Boards with Gilt Motif and lettering. As New/very good. H. M. Brock. First published in 1855. This edition is a facsimile edition of the Children's Edition first published by Macmillan & Co., 1928. Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 - 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. Kingsley's concern for social reform is illustrated in his classic, The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (1863), a tale about a boy chimney sweep, which retained its popularity well into the 20th century. The story mentions the main protagonists in the scientific debate over human origins, rearranging his earlier satire as the "great hippopotamus test". The book won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963. His version of the old Greek stories entitled The Heroes, and Water-babies and Madam How and Lady Why, in which he deals with popular natural history, take high rank among books for children. Kingsley's interest in history is shown in several of his writings, including The Heroes (1856), a children's book about Greek mythology, and several historical novels, of which the best known are Hypatia (1853), Hereward the Wake (1865) and Westward Ho! (1855). Henry Matthew Brock (11 July 1875 - 21 July 1960) was a British illustrator and landscape painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was one of four artist brothers, all of them illustrators, who worked together in their family studio in Cambridge. H. M. Brock was the younger brother of the better-known artist Charles Edmund Brock, with whom he shared a studio from 1894. Most of Brock's illustrations were for classic Victorian and Edwardian fiction. He also did a great deal of work for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for whom he produced posters and other advertising materials. During his artistic career, H. M. Brock regularly exhibited his drawings and watercolours at the Royal Academy and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. 212pp. DJ not clipped. Illustrated endpapers, school award pastedown on flypage, no inscriptions or markings, clean and as new throughout. [see image scan of actual book], Macmillan Publishers Ltd, 1980, 4<

1980, ISBN: 9780333290583

Paperback, Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller., Used, good, [PU: Macmillan]

1980, ISBN: 9780333290583

Pan Macmillan, 1980 Shows slight wear to outer extremities of leaves., Pan Macmillan, 1980, 2.5