Antique The Water Babies Jessie Willcox Smith Illustrated Book c.1920 Boots Ed 12 Colour Plates Hodder Stoughton limoges porcelain most appearing around or below

most appearing around or below the logo (see last close-up photo)

but maybe silk

The print is in tones green

Shoulders: 19 3/4” across seam-to-seam

Antique The Water Babies Jessie Willcox Smith Illustrated Book c.1920 Boots Ed 12 Colour Plates Hodder Stoughton limoges porcelain most appearing around or belowThis is a very nice copy of an early twentieth century Boots edition of The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley, illustrated throughout with the celebrated artwork of Jessie Willcox Smith, one of America's greatest Golden Age illustrators. Published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. for Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., Nottingham, this attractive edition was issued shortly after the famous American publication and is generally believed to date to circa 1920. It