Enid Blyton — Silver and Gold

London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, c1927. Cloth. A charming poetry anthology and early work from the iconic children's author, with eight colour plates. An early edition of Silver and Gold, a children's poetry anthology, written by iconic children's author Enid Blyton. Published in 1927, first published in 1925. In the publisher's decorative orignal cloth, with a colour frontispiece, and all seven other colour plates illustrated by British painter, illustrator and foudning member of the Women's Guild of Arts Ethel Everett. Collated complete. While she is primarily known for her children's novels, this anthology of thirty poems is an example of Blyton's early literary career, with her first publication A Child Whispers (1922) also being a children's anthology. A prolific name whose work has survived generation after generation, Blyton is the fourth most translated individual author in history. In the publisher's decorative original cloth. Externally, slight browning and marking to boards, and bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities, with a small chip to the head of the spine. Colour end papers are bright and clean. Internally, firmly bound, with minor wear to hinges between pp.32-33, 40-31, 104-105. Pages are generally bright and clean, with slight browning to leaf extremities. Good . Ill.: Ethel Everett. Good .