Carrots: Just a Little Boy by Mrs. Molesworth with Illustrations by Marion Oldham 1926 Edition by J.B. Lippincott Company

An antique children's novel by famed 19th century author Mrs. Molesworth, this is a 1926 edition of Carrots: Just a Little Boy. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (Courtesy of Wikipedia) Mary Louisa Molesworth, née Stewart (1839 - 1921) was an English writer of children's stories who wrote for children under the name of Mrs Molesworth. Mrs Molesworth is best known as a writer of books for the young, such as Tell Me a Story (1875), Carrots (1876), The Cuckoo Clock (1877), The Tapestry Room (1879), and A Christmas Child (1880). She has been called "the Jane Austen of the nursery," while The Carved Lions (1895) "is probably her masterpiece." In the judgement of Roger Lancelyn Green... Mary Louisa Molesworth typified late Victorian writing for girls. Aimed at girls too old for fairies and princesses but too young for Austen and the Brontës, books by Molesworth had their share of amusement, but they also had a good deal of moral instruction. The girls reading Molesworth would grow up to be mothers; thus, the books emphasized Victorian notions of duty and self-sacrifice.

BIXLEY NOTES

• Carrots: Just a Little Boy

• Written by Mrs. Molesworth

• Beautiful, full-color illustrations by Marion Oldham

• Published by J.B. Lippincot, 1926 (original copyright 1876)

• Linen hardcover

• Measures 8 1/8" x 6"

VINTAGE NOTES

• In very good vintage condition

• Binding is nice and tight

• Dust jacket is missing

• A bit of shelf wear and fraying around the edges of the covers • Inscribed on the inside front page

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