Little Lays for Little Folk

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. First Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully illustrated collection of short stories and verse for juvenial readers. An acceptable reading copy, many leaves also suitable for framing. A lovely collection of prose and images in need of a new life. Moderate shelf wear (corners through), wear/fraying at head and heel, light wear at hinges, light toning to boards, pencil marks on endpages, light sporadic foxing, text block from from spine, signatures loose but all present. Blue cloth beveled boards, gilt labels and decorative elements, black ink decorative elements, color plate pastedown, frontispiece, aeg. 8vo. 112pp. Illus. (b/w plates).