Charlotte M. Yonge — Little Lucy&Apos;S Wonderful Globe

London, Macmillan & Co , 1871 . First edition. Cloth. A charming and scarce illustrated children's novel from a popular nineteenth century writer. The scarce first edition of this work from English novelist Charlotte Mary Yonge.Illustrated with twenty-three plates from Danish painter, illustrator and etcher Lorenz Frolich. Collated, complete.During her lifetime, Yonge published around sixty works, chiefly Christian themed novels. Her work was widely read and respected in the nineteenth century; among her admirers were Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Anthony Trollope.This charming children's tale depicts the travels around the world of a young girl named Lucy.With a publisher's advertisement for further works illustrated by L. Frolich. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail. Boards bright and clean. Rear joint hinge, with board holding firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. However three leaves are detached to the centre of the text block. Pages clean and bright. Good . Ill.: L. Frolich. Good .