# 46563

RENTOUL, Annie R.; RENTOUL, Ida S. (illustrator)

The lady of the blue beads

$480.00 AUD

/ Her book, being an account of her first blue moon spent on Sun Island. Melbourne: George Robertson & Co., [1908]. Quarto (280 x 220 mm), publisher’s oatmeal cloth boards, the upper board decorated in orange and blue (bright and unrubbed); pp. 102, with 13 full-page monochrome plates and in-text illustrations and decorations by Ida S. Rentoul (later Outhwaite); spotting to top- and fore-edges and to outermost leaves, otherwise internally excellent; a fine example.

‘Their first major story book’ (Muir & Holden, p. 40).

Muir 6342.