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C1928
blossom-a-fairy-story-outhwaite
Author:
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888 - 1960)
4to. Original blue cloth-backed spine, patterned boards with laid pictorial label and illustrated endpapers; pp. [viii], 94 with 2 pages of adverts, col. front., 16 full page illustrations, 8 bw and 8 col., minute wear to lower corner tips, a … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
blossom-a-fairy-story-outhwaite
Date:
C1928
Author:
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888 - 1960)
Condition:
Minute wear to lower corner tips, a little faint foxing to text otherwise, internally fresh throughout, with plates in good codnition. Faint ink inscriptions to front end paper not legibl.
Technique:
Book
Image Size:
210mm
x 270mm
AUTHENTICITY
Guaranteed Vintage Item
dated:
1928
Description:
4to. Original blue cloth-backed spine, patterned boards with laid pictorial label and illustrated endpapers; pp. [viii], 94 with 2 pages of adverts, col. front., 16 full page illustrations, 8 bw and 8 col., minute wear to lower corner tips, a little faint foxing to text otherwise, internally fresh throughout, with plates in good condition. Faint ink inscriptions to front end paper not legibl. First London edition by A. & C. Black 1928.
Blossom was published in London at the end of 1928 and was change of direction for Outhwaite. Instead of being just a story of children and fairies, it introduced an animal, Samuel the cat, as a major character into the story.
References; Muir p. 645, Muir & Holden, pp.78-81, ill.p.79.
Biography:
Ida Outhwaite (1888-1960)
Illustrator, was born on 9 June 1888 at Carlton, Melbourne, second surviving child of Rev. John Laurence Rentoul and his wife Annie Isobel, née Rattray. Encouraged by her gifted literary and artistic family Ida drew prolifically from childhood, snatching time from her formal education at Presbyterian Ladies’ College to contribute to magazines produced in the family home at Ormond College, University of Melbourne. Her talents complemented the literary ability of her elder sister, Annie Rattray (1882-1978) who was born on 22 September 1882. After a brilliant career at P.L.C., culminating in the classics exhibition, Annie took a first-class honours degree at the University of Melbourne (B.A., 1905), where she won the Wyselaskie scholarship in classics and shared the Higgins poetry prize.
