R. C. Lehmann — The Sun-Child

London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co, 1904 . First edition. Cloth. The vanishingly scarce first edition of R. C. Lehmann's beautifully illustrated children's work. The very scarce first edition of this work.Written by Liberal Party politician R. C. Lehmann, a major contributor to Punch as well as founding editor of Granta magazine.With charming vignette monochrome illustrations throughout by popular illustrator Thomas Maybank.Undated; dated 1904 via the British Library.With a former owner's inscription, dated 1920, to the front free endpaper.A delightful children's tale in which the 'sun-child' visits earth, and does 'all kinds of good', according to a contemporary review in The Spectator. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, exceptional. Light fading to back strip. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound, though a touch strained to the centre. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Thomas Maybank. Very Good Indeed .