The water-babies / by Charles Kingsley ; illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
| Author/creator | Kingsley, Charles author. |
| Other author | Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935 illustrator. |
| Other author | Hudson, Margaret F., former owner. |
| Other author | Greene, Florence E., former owner. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Dodd, Mead, 1916. |
| Copyright Date | ©1916 |
| Description | 362 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Internet Archive, UNC Chapel Hill copy |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimneysweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a waterbaby. |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy includes autograph of Mary [Emilie] Benjamin, April 26, 1914, Mother" on front flyleaf. "Printed and bound by J.J. Little & Ives Co, New York."--title page verso. |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy includes mounted plates and inscription: "Florence E. Greene from Aunt [Lenore?], March the eighth, Nineteen hundred twenty-five." on front flyleaf. Bound by Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco. |
| General note | Original cover has inlaid color illustration. |
| General note | Some editions include mounted plates. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Rare copies gift of Margaret F. "Ricki" Hudson, 2020 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875. Water-babies. New York, Dodd, Mead [©1916] |
| Genre/form | Fairy tales. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Juvenile works. |
| Genre/form | Pictorial bindings (Binding) |
| Genre/form | Paper onlays (Binding) |
| LCCN | 16022257 |