Author: Anon
Title: CLARA WOODWARD and Her Day-dreams. A New Edition. With coloured frontispiece.
Description: London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1869 acc. to British Library Color printed frontis. of Clara happily playing with her dolls. . 160x108mm Red floral pictorial cloth with gilt title panels to cover and spine (tips sl.worn) half title present + frontis + titlepage + 186pp. Miniature blindstamp bookseller's name & Prize inscription from S.Peter's Girls' School to Edith Simons for Scripture. Endpaper marked by covering paper that once protected the cover but left shadow on endpapers where folded in. Book tight with minimal foxing. *Story of a little girl who imagines how good she might be but her resolutions are never quite fulfilled and when she goes to live with a worldly aunt she realizes that she is less able to resist temptation than at home in a God fearing family.

Keywords: Victorian moral story


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