Various — Beeton&Apos;S Annual; a Book for the Young

London, Frederick Warne & Co, 1866. Cloth. A smart illustrated annual for children, containing a variety of exciting stories, including one by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The fourth edition.A charming Victorian annual for children, containing a variety of stories by eminent authors This volume includes 'Hum, the Son of Buz' by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 'Historical Assassinations' by W. H. Davenport Adams, 'The Adventures of Blondine' by the Countess de Segur, 'A Swiss Saturday Night' by W. Cosmo Monkhouse, and more.Illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece, five chromolithograph plates, and fifteen monochrome plates.Illustrators who contributed to this volume include Gustave Dore, William Brunton, Frederick Skill, and more.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.Two leaves of adverts to the rear.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Spine is lightly faded. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Small chip to the front joint. Only a few small marks to the boards and spine, mostly to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with some scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Edition statement has been rubbed off the title page by a prior owner. Small closed tear to the frontispiece. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .