My Playmate. [TUCK (Raphael)].
Father Tuck's "Furry Mascot" Series. Edited by Capt. Edric Vredenburg (10th London Regt).
Colour frontispiece and colour plate, black and white and coloured illustrations throughout.
First Edition. 4to. [262 x 197 x 14 mm]. [24]ff. Bound in the publisher's boards, the front cover lettered and illustrated in colour with a black felt cut-out of a sheep, red cloth spine. (Corners slightly worn).
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, [1916?]
Lightly browned but a very good copy. With a neat ink inscription "To Betty from Uncle George 25.12.16".
Raphael Tuck & Sons and Captain Edric Vredenburg were a prolific partnership but few examples of the "Furry Mascot" Series have survived. Library catalogues around the world record three - Louis Wain's Catland Stories, Sunny Stories and The Children's Delight. Various other websites add variants of the third title including The Children's Friend, The Children's Companion and The Children's Hour. I have also found a 1920 edition of My Playtime Book, dated 1920, with a black felt sheep on the front, but no other copy of My Playmate.
A series of 24 stories and short verses starting with "Barbara and the Black Cats" by Grace C. Floyd, and including an essay on "Play-Time in Japan" by Lilian Timpson. The illustrators include Janet Murray, A. L. and M. Bowley, H. Cowham, N. Buchanan and Leigh Kidman.
Stock no. ebc7956
Father Tuck's "Furry Mascot" Series. Edited by Capt. Edric Vredenburg (10th London Regt).
Colour frontispiece and colour plate, black and white and coloured illustrations throughout.
First Edition. 4to. [262 x 197 x 14 mm]. [24]ff. Bound in the publisher's boards, the front cover lettered and illustrated in colour with a black felt cut-out of a sheep, red cloth spine. (Corners slightly worn).
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, [1916?]
Lightly browned but a very good copy. With a neat ink inscription "To Betty from Uncle George 25.12.16".
Raphael Tuck & Sons and Captain Edric Vredenburg were a prolific partnership but few examples of the "Furry Mascot" Series have survived. Library catalogues around the world record three - Louis Wain's Catland Stories, Sunny Stories and The Children's Delight. Various other websites add variants of the third title including The Children's Friend, The Children's Companion and The Children's Hour. I have also found a 1920 edition of My Playtime Book, dated 1920, with a black felt sheep on the front, but no other copy of My Playmate.
A series of 24 stories and short verses starting with "Barbara and the Black Cats" by Grace C. Floyd, and including an essay on "Play-Time in Japan" by Lilian Timpson. The illustrators include Janet Murray, A. L. and M. Bowley, H. Cowham, N. Buchanan and Leigh Kidman.
Stock no. ebc7956
Father Tuck's "Furry Mascot" Series. Edited by Capt. Edric Vredenburg (10th London Regt).
Colour frontispiece and colour plate, black and white and coloured illustrations throughout.
First Edition. 4to. [262 x 197 x 14 mm]. [24]ff. Bound in the publisher's boards, the front cover lettered and illustrated in colour with a black felt cut-out of a sheep, red cloth spine. (Corners slightly worn).
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, [1916?]
Lightly browned but a very good copy. With a neat ink inscription "To Betty from Uncle George 25.12.16".
Raphael Tuck & Sons and Captain Edric Vredenburg were a prolific partnership but few examples of the "Furry Mascot" Series have survived. Library catalogues around the world record three - Louis Wain's Catland Stories, Sunny Stories and The Children's Delight. Various other websites add variants of the third title including The Children's Friend, The Children's Companion and The Children's Hour. I have also found a 1920 edition of My Playtime Book, dated 1920, with a black felt sheep on the front, but no other copy of My Playmate.
A series of 24 stories and short verses starting with "Barbara and the Black Cats" by Grace C. Floyd, and including an essay on "Play-Time in Japan" by Lilian Timpson. The illustrators include Janet Murray, A. L. and M. Bowley, H. Cowham, N. Buchanan and Leigh Kidman.
Stock no. ebc7956