Child Classics : The Second Reader

162pp, colour plate frontispiece and numerous further monochrome illustrations in text, some full page. In dulled brown cloth boards with extensive decorations (boards lightly rubbed on edges, rounded on spine ends and corners). Gift inscription on front page down and some pencil writing on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A selection of classic, traditional stories and extracts from writers including Daniel Defoe, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley, Celia Thaxter, etc. A lovely collection.