Smith, Jessie Willcox

The Book of the Child

Mabel Humphrey. Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green, illustrators. Color printing by Charles W. Beck, Jr. The Book of the Child. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1903. First edition.

 Folio (approx. 15 x 14 inches). Unpaginated. Illustrated by Smith and Green, with seven full-page color lithograph plates, including frontispiece. Publisher’s green quarter cloth over illustrated hardcover paper boards.

Considered to be Jessie Willcox Smith’s Magnum Opus.

Ex-library copy with Nebraska City Library stamps throughout; extremities rubbed, bumped, and edgeworn, covers and backstrip starting, torn and splitting along the top of the front joint; front hinge broken, exposing spine; interior generally clean, with occasional creasing, thumbsoiling and tearing. Good or better. LWC-541. Item #541

Price: $1,000.00