MY MOTHER
Written by R.M. Ballantyne, Comus, Ann Taylor
Published by Thomas Nelson & Sons
in 1857
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MY MOTHER
Written by R.M. Ballantyne, Comus, Ann Taylor.
Stock no. 2130362
1st.
1857.
Hardback.
Large format.
Good condition.
An adaptation of the poem by Ann Taylor, with a prose version and two musical settings. Comus is the pseudonym for R.M.Ballantyne. Large format. Green embossed cloth with gilt title and vignette to front cover. 32 pages. 8 attractive colour plates. The story of a kitten. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Grubby marks and uneven fading to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Creasing and a few margin tears, foxing, including to plate pages. Frontis is very creased; appears to at one time have been folded. Some damp marks. A reading copy.