Price: £225
Subject: Childrens
Published Date: 1927
Stock Number: 74977
Lofting (Hugh)
Doctor Dolittle's Caravan.
Description: FIRST EDITION, colour-printed frontispiece and further illustrations by the author, with the title-vignette and 5 of the full-page illustrations skilfully hand-coloured, light foxing to title-page and a few further spots, pp. 319, crown 8vo, original grey cloth, the upper board and backstrip with lettering and border in purple, a few spots to edges, endpapers with colour-printed design by the author, dustjacket with onlaid Lofting illustration to front panel, price-clipped, lightly soiled with gently browned backstrip panel and a few nicks (internally tape-repaired), very good
Publication Details: Jonathan Cape, 1927
Notes: An example of well-executed hand-colouring adding charm to the work - the only pity that it isn't more extensively carried out.
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