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The Child's Companion
Various authors and illustrators
This is assumed to be published by the Religious Tract Society (RTS). There is an article on page 135 about a woman named Mary Kemble Martin who is reported to have written for the Religious Tract Society and The Child's Companion. The address given on the title page is 4 Bouverie Street, which is the address of the RTS. The volume is not dated, but on page 82 a paragraph in an article begins: Just a year ago this month - on June 30th, 1911..., so this Annual was probably printed at the end of 1912 for the Christmas market.
First edition, thus
Bibliography code: RTS-12.1
Publisher: [Religious Tract Society]
Series: Child's Companion vol. 89
Year: [1912]
Format: 8vo?
Pages: iv, pp 188, pp 14 adverts
Binding: decorated brown cloth with image of boy on horse in yellow and girl with hoop mostly in green; gilt title at top with black outline; title on spine with yellow first letter and other letters in green with black outline
Size: 227 x 174 mm
Dust jacket signed: no jacket seen
Internal illustrations: full page illustration on page 11 signed E. Blampied
Price: not known
Printing history: none stated
Printed by: not stated
Illustration on page 11 of Annual (click to enlarge)
Notes: This illustration has a very early signature of Blampied. I have looked through bound volumes of Sunday at Home, the monthly magazine of the Religious Tract Society, but did not find any illustrations by Blampied. This may have been a one-off illustration for the Annual only.