HOOD, THOMAS — Tom Tucker and Little Bo-Peep

NY, Cassell Publishing Company. 1891, First Edition. Cloth with Illustrated Boards, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Alice Wheaton Adams. Hard Cover, Tender binding; A delightful rhyming children's story about the troubles of Little Bo-Peep and her marriage to Tommy Tucker, using Mother Goose characters; lovely cover and color illustrations are pastel in tone; font gives the feel of a hand written book; other illustrations and lettering done in sepia; three-line ink gift inscription on second ffep, dated Christmas 1892; end papers tender at the gutter, else textblock is immaculate and tight; perhaps mistakenly thinking the book uncut, first few double pages are roughly cut; page three has a 3" closed tear as well as a smaller tear; boards are moderately rubbed, bumped and scuffed along edges and spine extremities as well as the corners; illustrated paper rubbed away on cover corners and one half-inch chip on upper edge; back cover creased inside and out; 41pp. Good+.