Author: Somerville, E. OE
Title: The Story of the Discontented Little Elephant, Told in Pictures and Rhyme
Description: London, England, Longmans, Green & Co, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Landscape Quarto, 10.5 x 7.5 in. Unpaginated (eight leaves of text; seven leaves of plates). Gray paper boards eith red cloth spine. Framed pictorial inset of story scene with dark green and black title to cover. Illustrated with seven full-page color plates and numerous black ink drawings. Very light rubbing to extremities; light scuffing to cover. Front bottom corner is peeping. Previous owner's initials in ink to top right of front free endpaper. Tanning shadow to endpapers; light age-toning to leaves. Protected in mylar. A very rare, and slightly demented, children's book in very good condition. Not for the faint-hearted child! Maybe not even for children! Edith Anna Å’none Somerville (2 May 1858 - 8 October 1949) was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. Å’. Somerville". The eldest of eight children, Somerville grew up in Drishane, Castletownshend, County Cork, She is said to have dominated her sister and brothers in a family where women were encouraged to be bold. She received her primary education at home, and then attended Alexandra College in Dublin. In 1884, she went to Paris for the first of several trips to study art at the Académie Colarossi and Académie Delécluse, and then spent a term at the Westminster School of Art in Dean's Yard, Westminster. At home, riding and painting were her absorbing interests. In January 1886, she met her cousin Violet Martin, and their literary partnership began the following year. In 1898 Edith Somerville went to paint at the Etaples art colony, accompanied by Violet. There they profited from their stay by conceiving together the stories later gathered in Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. completed the following year. By the time Violet died in 1915, they had published fourteen books together. Somerville was a devoted sportswoman who, in 1903, had become master of the West Carbery Foxhounds. She was also active in the suffragist movement. She had exhibitions of her pictures in Dublin and in London between 1920 and 1938, and was active as an illustrator of sporting picture books and children's picture books. She died at Castletownshend in October 1949, aged 91, and is buried alongside Violet Florence Martin at Saint Barrahane's Church, Castletownsend. Very Good Plus .
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Title: The Story of the Discontented Little Elephant, Told in Pictures and Rhyme
Description: London, England, Longmans, Green & Co, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Landscape Quarto, 10.5 x 7.5 in. Unpaginated (eight leaves of text; seven leaves of plates). Gray paper boards eith red cloth spine. Framed pictorial inset of story scene with dark green and black title to cover. Illustrated with seven full-page color plates and numerous black ink drawings. Very light rubbing to extremities; light scuffing to cover. Front bottom corner is peeping. Previous owner's initials in ink to top right of front free endpaper. Tanning shadow to endpapers; light age-toning to leaves. Protected in mylar. A very rare, and slightly demented, children's book in very good condition. Not for the faint-hearted child! Maybe not even for children! Edith Anna Å’none Somerville (2 May 1858 - 8 October 1949) was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. Å’. Somerville". The eldest of eight children, Somerville grew up in Drishane, Castletownshend, County Cork, She is said to have dominated her sister and brothers in a family where women were encouraged to be bold. She received her primary education at home, and then attended Alexandra College in Dublin. In 1884, she went to Paris for the first of several trips to study art at the Académie Colarossi and Académie Delécluse, and then spent a term at the Westminster School of Art in Dean's Yard, Westminster. At home, riding and painting were her absorbing interests. In January 1886, she met her cousin Violet Martin, and their literary partnership began the following year. In 1898 Edith Somerville went to paint at the Etaples art colony, accompanied by Violet. There they profited from their stay by conceiving together the stories later gathered in Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. completed the following year. By the time Violet died in 1915, they had published fourteen books together. Somerville was a devoted sportswoman who, in 1903, had become master of the West Carbery Foxhounds. She was also active in the suffragist movement. She had exhibitions of her pictures in Dublin and in London between 1920 and 1938, and was active as an illustrator of sporting picture books and children's picture books. She died at Castletownshend in October 1949, aged 91, and is buried alongside Violet Florence Martin at Saint Barrahane's Church, Castletownsend. Very Good Plus .
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Price: US$ 750.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 85704
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