Peter Parley — Peter Parley&Apos;S Annual

London, Darton and Co, 1852. Cloth. A lovely children's annual, containing a selection of entertaining short stories of essays, colourfully illustrated with chromolithographs. A children's annual for the year 1852, collecting together entertaining tales, essays, and articles.Contents include 'Something about Skating', 'Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow', 'Hippodrome: with something about the Ancient Games', 'Copper and Copper Mines', 'Gutta Percha', 'Elephant and its Calf', and more.Illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece, a chromolithograph title page, six chromolithograph plates, and in-text engravings. Collated, complete.Four pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, with a small amount of loss to the head of the spine. A few marks to the boards and spine. Hinges are starting but firm. Frontispiece has been adhered to the front paste down. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with scattered spots, including to the plates. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .