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YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN

Written by Githa Sowerby
Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby
Published by Chatto & Windus in 1908

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YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN
Written by Githa Sowerby. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby.
Stock no. 1328896
1st. 1908. Hardback. Good condition.

A book of verses illustrated with beautiful colour plates. Red cloth, gilt titles. Pictorial onlay to front cover. White endpapers with gold vignettes. Green and white text illustrations throughout. 47 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Some rubbing/scuffing to covers and a marks to edge of rear cover. Small hole to rear edge of spine. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Lower corner of browned frontis tissue-guard has been torn off. Endpapers are lightly browned. Some light foxing and some grubby fingermarks to page margins but generally contents clean.

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Front cover

Cover of YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN by Githa Sowerby

Contents

  • The Spartan
  • The First Doll
  • The Nun
  • The Crier
  • Fairies
  • The Puritan
  • The Black Page
  • The Briton
  • Hawking
  • The May Queen
  • The Watchman
  • The Outlaw
  • The Jester
  • Dreams
  • The Ballroom
  • The Troubadour
  • The Sampler
  • Mermaids
  • The Sphinx