BONNY BAIRNS

New York: Worthington Co, 1888. Very good plus.. First edition of this collection of rhymes illustrated with darling chromolithographs of Victorian children by Ida Waugh. BONNY BAIRNS lives up to its name: its pages are full of lovely Victorian children frolicking in gardens, playing with toys, and being comforted by their elegant mothers. Ida Waugh paints an idillic picture of upper-middle-class 19th-century childhood in her illustrations, similar to her contemporary Maud Humphrey. An attractive production. 10.25'' x 8''. Original color pictorial boards with gilt elements. Chromolithograph frontispiece with chromolithographs and color illustrations throughout. 48 pages. Gift inscription to front flyleaf, dated "X'mas 1888." Boards with light edgewear, some bumping, rear hinge repaired. Leaves with occasional offsetting, mild soil to margins. Colors vibrant.