Hand-corrected typescript chapter from Protheroe's "Budge and Betty" children's adventure series, with five original pen-and-ink drawings and one watercolor painting for use in the completed book.
Very good plus.
Price: $1,250.00
Ernest Hanley Protheroe was an extremely prolific writer and illustrator of both fiction and nonfiction for children, under his own name as well as assorted pseudonyms. The "Budge and Betty" series featured twins who travel together to the dominion of the Frost King at the North Pole, the Americas, Fairyland, and other real and unreal places. This chapter, with original draft illustrations from the 1929 book to which it belongs — BUDGE AND BETTY IN FAIRY TOWN (London, Renwick of Otley) — outfits its child-heroes in bobbed haircuts, dropped-waist dresses, and sailor collars, and takes them through the landscapes of several classic fairytales accompanied by several much less fashionable elves. A small but revealing archive from this noted children's author.
n.p. n.p, [circa 1929]. 11'' x 8.5'' (typescript). [17]-page typescript manuscript, typed rectos only, with hand corrections in pencil. Five pen-and-ink drawings over pencil on watercolor boards (assorted sizes), with pencil notations for book placement, one watercolor painting on board with tissue guard. Five additional proofs of the same illustrations, all printed in black and white. Light edgewear. Corner creasing and a few small tears to manuscript leaves.
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