Author: Maybury,Lucretia
Title: SANDY or the Mystery of the box {bound with but not mentioned on titlepage or binding "THE NEW YEAR WAIFS or a good turn is never Lost" by Lucretia Maybur.y]
Description: London, Sunday School Union [1887] by inscription wood-engraved plates [4] by R. Knight + many varied & some large head- tail-pieces and initials . 178x116mm grey pictorial cloth with green decoration & gilt titles to cover and spine [tips & spine ends a bit worn/cloth darkened to spine and tip of spine worn & marked to covers but other than that entirely sound] 126pp +half title to second story,contents to verso +frontispiece to wnd story +131-192pp ownership to pastedown,illuminated prize label dated 1887 adressed to Edward Harris to verso of frontisplate & same owner/prize reciepient inscription to verso of titlepage. Lacks free endpapers and some signs of use but except for 3 or 4 corner creases a neat tight copy. Minor foxing to endpage. Both are stories of long lost children reunited to their families after many adventures and years. Printed in London.

Keywords: Victorian moral stories lost stolen children


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