CAUTIONARY TALES AND OTHER VERSES
Written by Hilaire Belloc
Illustrated by Posy Simmonds
Published by Folio Society
in 1997
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CAUTIONARY TALES AND OTHER VERSES
Written by Hilaire Belloc.
Illustrated by Posy Simmonds.
Stock no. 1208923
1st thus.
1997.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition.
Olive green, yellow & red pictorial cloth. Colour & b/w illustrations. Yellow endpapers. 160 pages. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase with some light shelf-scuffing.
Front cover
Contents
- CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN (1907)
- Introduction
- Jim
- Henry King
- Matilda
- Franklin Hyde
- Godolphin Horne
- Algernon
- Hildebrand
- Lord Lundy
- Rebecca
- George
- Charles Augustus Fortescue
- NEW CAUTIONARY TALES (1930)
- A Reproof of Gluttony
- Maria
- Sarah Byng
- Jack and His Pony, Tom
- Tom and His Pony, Jack
- About John
- Peter Goole
- Aunt Jane
- On Food
- THE BAD CHILD'S BOOK OF BEASTS (1896)
- Introduction
- The Yak
- The Polar Bear
- The Lion
- The Tiger
- The Dromedary
- The Whale
- The Hippopotamus
- The Dodo
- The Marmozet
- The Camelopard
- he Learned Fish
- The Elephant
- The Big Baboon
- The Rhinoceros
- The Frog
- MORE BEASTS FOR WORSE CHILDREN (1897)
- Introduction
- The Python
- The Welsh Mutton
- The Porcupine
- The Scorpion
- The Crocodile
- The Vulture
- The Bison
- The Viper
- The Llama
- The Chamois
- The Frozen Mammoth
- The Microbe
- MORE PEERS (1911)
- Edward, first Earl of ROEHAMPTON in the County of Surrey, deceased
- Archibald, Fifteenth Baron CALVIN of Peebles in North Britain
- Henry de la Tour Albert St John Chase, commonly known as LORD HENRY CHASE
- Thomas, second Baron HEYGATE of Bayswater in the County of London
- Percy, first EARL OF EPSOM in the County of Surrey
- Arthur Weekes, commonly known as LORD FINCHLEY Eldest Son and Heir of Charles, first Baron Hendon
- Ali-Baba, first (and last) Baron ALI-BABA of Salonika
- George Punter, commonly known as LORD HIPPO, Eldest Son and Heir of Peter, sixth Earl of Potamus
- Baron UNCLE TOM of Maarfontein in the Britains Overseas
- Christopher, sixth Baron CANTON
- Alchibiades, third baron ABBOTT of Brackley in Southamptonshire
- William, eighth EARLY LUCKY, subsequently Fifth Duke of Bradford
- A MORAL ALPHABET (1899)
- LADIES AND GENTLEMAN (1932)
- The Garden Party
- William Shand
- The Three Races
- Obiter Dicta
- The Statesman
- The Author
- The Example
- THE MODERN TRAVELLER (1898)