BALDWIN, Louisa, Mrs. Alfred. The Pedlar's Pack. With nine coloured illustrations by Chas. Pears, author and illustrator of Mr. Punch's Book for Children. W. & R. Chambers. [1904]
Col. front., illus., plates. Orig. beige cloth, blocked in black. A nice crisp copy.
¶Louisa Baldwin (nee MacDonald), 1845-1925, is best remembered for her 1895 work The Shadow on the Blind and Other Ghost Stories. She was married to businessman and politician Alfred Baldwin, and their son Stanley Baldwin was Prime Minister in the mid 1930s. Louisa and her sisters, who became known as Pre-Raphaelite beauties - were famous for their high-profile marriages and offspring; her eldest sister Alice married John Kipling and together they had a son called Rudyard, Georgiana was married to Edward Burne-Jones, and Agnes married painter Edward Poynter. This work is dedicated to Agnes.
Stock #85520
£70
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