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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Edith B. Holden Ilustrador. Merrythought, Matthew. Animals around us / with illustrations by Edith B. Holden. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1921. Hardback, VG. Green cloth with some colour fade to front edge, bumped to corners, the spine also a little faded with light damage to top. Binding strong. Light tanning to endpapers. Rectangle cut from the top of ffep (presumably removing a signature). Colour frontispiece. 124pp. of animal verse with b/w illustrations. Contents clean and bright. Now very scarce. Matthew Merrythought was the pseudonym of the renowned chess player Arthur James Maas (1857-1933). Edith Blackwell Holden (26 September 1871 - 15 March 1920) was an English artist, writer and art teacher. She was influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement and specialised in painting animals and plants. While collecting flowers from a riverbank at Kew Gardens, Holden drowned in the Thames in 1920. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. We do not use AI and all images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.