A day with Charles Kingsley - 1910/13 - Maurice Clare

Maurice Clare (pseudonym of Mary Clarissa "May" Byron) - A day with Charles Kingsley - Edition in the series: 'Days with the Great Writers' - Illustrations by Norman Price - London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910-1913 (the series ' Days with the Great Writers' was published between the years 1910 & 1913) - 1st edition - 48p. - Hardcover: cardboard binding with pasted color print by Kingsley in a central cartouche, some pages uncut in the text block - 15x20.80cm - Good copy: binding intact, frontispiece loose in the text block, front and back endpaper with age discolouration, 2 handwritten dedications on the front endpaper (recto-verso), spine cover partially missing (see photo).

• Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet.
• Mary Clarissa "May" Byron (1861-1936), née Gillington, was a British writer and poet, best known for her abridgements of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan books. She published under the names May Byron, M.C. Gillington and Maurice Clare. Byron specialized in writing biographies of great composers, poets and writers,
• Norman Mills Price (1877–1951) was a Canadian American illustrator known for his work in historical subjects.
• The 'Days with the Great Writers' series also included:

Emerson, Carlyle, Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, R.L. Stevenson, Thackeray, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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