Doctor Dolittle's Return.

Lofting (Hugh)

Doctor Dolittle's Return.

Description: FIRST EDITION, colour-printed frontispiece, title-page design and 14 full-page illustrations by the author, 12 of the latter charmingly hand-coloured, contemporary gift inscription to half-title, a few spots, pp. 288, crown 8vo, original grey cloth, the upper board and backstrip with lettering and border in green, 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 m(internally tape-repaired), very good

Publication Details: Jonathan Cape, 1933

Notes: The hand-colouring to this book is well-executed and enhancing - particularly noticeable given that the register of the colour-printing to the frontispiece is a little off. It is possibly the work of the book's original recipient, one Stephanie Coltant, who received this book for Christmas from her father in the year of publication.