CANTON, William. A Child's Book of Saints. With 19 full-page illustrations by T. H. Robinson. London: J. M. Dent. 1930. 8vo. Reprint. Publisher’s delightful pictorial cream cloth decorated in yellow, gilt, blue, and black, in the scarce dust jacket which imitates the boards. A very good indeed copy, the cloth clean and largely bright, gently pushed to spine tips. The binding tight and square, the contents largely fine, with ink gift inscription to the front endpaper and a few mild spots to endpapers and edges only. The fragile dust jacket unclipped (5s net), tiny chips to the spine head and tail, light rubbing and tiny closed tears to extremities, larger tear to front panel joint made discreet by the design. Uncommon enough.
Originally published in 1898, this is a companion volume of sorts to Canton’s final book, ‘A Child’s Book of Warriors’ (1912). Heroic, mythological and sometimes supernatural, the stories here relate real saints with hermits, martyrs, mystics, and more. The 1898 and 1902 editions used the pictorial cloth, and this 1930 edition followed that production. The dust jacket is a rare survivor.
CANTON, William. A Child's Book of Saints. With 19 full-page illustrations by T. H. Robinson. London: J. M. Dent. 1930. 8vo. Reprint. Publisher’s delightful pictorial cream cloth decorated in yellow, gilt, blue, and black, in the scarce dust jacket which imitates the boards. A very good indeed copy, the cloth clean and largely bright, gently pushed to spine tips. The binding tight and square, the contents largely fine, with ink gift inscription to the front endpaper and a few mild spots to endpapers and edges only. The fragile dust jacket unclipped (5s net), tiny chips to the spine head and tail, light rubbing and tiny closed tears to extremities, larger tear to front panel joint made discreet by the design. Uncommon enough.
Originally published in 1898, this is a companion volume of sorts to Canton’s final book, ‘A Child’s Book of Warriors’ (1912). Heroic, mythological and sometimes supernatural, the stories here relate real saints with hermits, martyrs, mystics, and more. The 1898 and 1902 editions used the pictorial cloth, and this 1930 edition followed that production. The dust jacket is a rare survivor.
