Blue leatherette binding with gilt title and black figure on the spine.Gilt title with water baby figure on the front board.

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A lovely children’s edition specially prepared with great empathy by Martin Frost’s father (a very distinguished soldier and master printer). The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children’s novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862–63 as a serial for Macmillan’s Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support
of Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species. The book was extremely popular in the United Kingdom and was a mainstay of British children’s literature for many decades, but eventually fell out of favour in America in part due to its claimed prejudices against Irish, Jews, Catholics, and Americans. Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a broad- church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist, and poet. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men’s college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms. He was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin.