Mrs Baillie Reynolds (Gertrude Minnie Robins) — A Wayward Girl

London, S. W. Partridge & Co. 1913. First edition. Cloth. An extremely scarce first edition of this 1913 children's novel, with full plate illustrations. This scarce work features a full colour illustrated frontispiece and four further illustrated plates. Collated, complete.Published under the name Mrs. Baillie Reynolds, after her stockbroker husband, this is a work of children's fiction from Gertrude Minnie Robins. Robins was a prolific writer with a vast output of over fifty novels, four of which were adapted into early silent films. She was active in the women's suffrage movement, and president of the Society of Women Journalists in 1913.An extensive thirty two page publisher's catalogue appears at the end of this work.To the front pastedown is the bookseller's label of 'F. & E. Phillput', and to the front pastedown is contemporary inscription detailing an address. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Some discolouration to the spine, with light bumping to spine head and tail. A bookseller's label features to the front pastedown, and contemporary inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. The odd spot throughout. Pages of publisher's catalogue to rear discoloured due to paper type. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .