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The water-babies : a fairy tale for a land-baby / by Charles Kingsley ; with one hundred illustrations by Linley Sambourne.
LIBRA - Rare PR4842 .W3 1894
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chimney sweeps--Juvenile fiction.
- Chimney sweeps.
- Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
- Orphans.
- Fairies--Juvenile fiction.
- Fairies.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements -- New York (State) -- 19th century.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Conard, Robert C. (autograph)
- Mecklin, Ruth Baker (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 330 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Macmillan and Co., 1894.
- Summary:
- The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water baby.
- Notes:
- Publisher's advertisements on p. [331]-[336].
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Ruth Baker Mecklin.
- Penn Libraries copy has autograph of Robert C. Conard on front free endpaper.
- Penn Libraries copy: head outer corner of most leaves dampstained.
- Penn Libraries copy: spine damaged.
- OCLC:
- 14938216
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