
MY DIARY
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Canongate, Edinburgh, 1975. ISBN 0-903937-13-1. Small hard cover, unpaginated. Very good; red cloth with gilt title in gilt frame on front board, gilt lettering on spine. Light corner and spine end wear; binding tight. Dust jacket clipped; light edge and cover wear, touch of soil on front; some age toning; browning along edges of inner flaps; tiny tear at lower rear spine edge. Interior clean and unmarked; black & white illustrations in red frame on each page; a few small age spots on outer page block. ‘This modern reprint of an authentic Victorian children’s diary can also be used as an engagement book or a birthday book. An endearing keepsake, it is decorated with more than 365 engravings that encompass everything from humorous caricatures to outrageous puns, from odd literary and historical facts to deceptively simple pictures of everyday life, and provides a window into nineteenth-century life that is as fresh and appealing as it was the day it was first issued.’ (from front flap)