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Children's Books in England.
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Children's Books in England. Five Centuries of Social Life.

Publication details: Cambridge: At the University Press,1932,

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Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, with a suitably bibliographical note: 'Written in 1932; printed & published by the Cambrdige University Press in seven weeks. F.J. Harvey Darton, December 1932'.A scion of the publishing firm of Darton, author studied at St John's College, Oxford and continued in the family business whilst cultivating his own literary work; this is considered his masterpiece - 'ground-breaking and influential [...] a vital resource for historians and general readers'

Description

1932, pp. xii, 359, 8vo, original green cloth, backtrip lettered in gilt on a brown cloth label, arms stamped in gilt to upper board, top edge brown, dustjacket slightly browned to backstrip panel and borders with a few miniscule nicks, very good

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