Aunt Judy's Annual Volumes

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Aunt Judy's illustrated annuals, including her Christmas and Mayday volumes, featuring charming poetry and stories for young people. Nineteen Volumes.In the original publisher's gilt cloth.Christmas, annual and Mayday volumes.Illustrated with, vignettes, illuminated letters and;a colour plate and 10 plates to 1884, a colour frontispiece and 31 plates to 1862, 20 plates to 1886, a frontispiece and 12 plates to 1875, 13 plates to 1877, a colour frontispiece and 7 plates to 1883, 13 plates to 1878, 10 plates to 1870, 10 plates to 1881, 8 plates to 1874, a frontispiece and 9 plates to 1872, 11 plates to 1873, frontispiece and 10 plates to 1885, 16 plates to 1866, a frontispiece and 17 plates to 1867 Mayday, a frontispiece and 13 plates to 1876, 10 plates to 1880 and a frontispiece and 7 plates 1879. This set features 'Aunt Judy's Annual Volumes' and were edited by the founder Mrs Margaret Gatty and her daughter J. H. Ewing. The annuals were intended for children and included poems, songs and charming stories. The annuals were named after her daughter, whose nickname was 'Judy', and was intended to tell stories that would guide children to live a moral life and bring joy to both children and adults. In the publisher's original cloths. Externally very smart with slight fading to the spines, the odd minor mark, bumping to the extremities, slight rubbing to the joints to the odd volume, small closed tears to the head of '1883, 1877, 1870', to the tail to '1885' and to the head and tail to '1873'. Rear board bowing slightly to '1880' with slight cockling and rear joint starting to '1867' and slight cockling to the front board to '1882'. Slight marks to the endpapers with tidemarks to '1866' and to the rear to '1867 and '1870', hinges starting to '1866, 1867, 1875, 1883 (weak to the front) , 1885, 1876 and 1873, front hinge tender to '1881' and failed to '1874' and to the rear of '1879', with front weak. Loss to endpapers to '1874'. Internally hinge tender after pp. iv to '1880' and pp. 56 to '1870', the front endpaper to pp. iv disbound but present to '1875' and the odd page disbound but present to other volumes with the title page to pp. 2 disbound but present to '1882'. Lightly age toned pages and the odd spot, heavier to front and rear to '1880 and 1877' and offsetting to the odd page. Donation slips for the 'Aunt Judy Cot' at Great Ormond Street loosely inserted into the odd volume. Spotting to the fore edges to some of the volumes. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 883Z42

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