c1906 A Little Princess : Frances Hodgson Burnett : Arts & Crafts Binding

A Little Princess
Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time

By Frances Hodgson Burnett

With original illustrations in colour by Harold Piffard

Published by Frederick Warne, undated, c1906. Perhaps the first reprint of the 1905 first edition. Hardback, decorative cloth binding, 8vo, 302 pages plus one page of publisher's adverts. With plates illustrated in colour.

CONDITION
A very good copy of this classic childrens title. The decorative cloth binding is very good. Endpapers good. All contents present including all colour plates. Pages good throughout. Very light spotting to the prelims but nothing bad. No writing or names. Overall a very good copy.

A Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story "Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's", which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888. According to Burnett, after she composed the 1902 play A Little Un-fairy Princess based on that story, her publisher asked that she expand the story as a novel with "the things and people that had been left out before". The novel was published by Charles Scribner's Sons (also publisher of St. Nicholas) with illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts and the full title A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Being Told for the First Time

(Loc: Blue shelf no 1 ; 2nd down )