BIMBI. STORIES FOR CHILDREN by LOUISA DE LA RAME (OUIDA), Illustrated by EDMUND H. GARRETT, 1892, first edition.

Description: Tan cloth covers with gilt and brown design and lettering. Patterned endpapers, illustrated frontis and 8 others in text. Pencil gift inscription to owner on free endpaper. Includes a Century Association exhibit invitation in 1942.

Condition:  Good. Covers are soiled with edgewear. Paper in cover gutters are split and back hinge is nearly separated. Page edges are lightly age toned otherwise clean and tight. (see photos)

Pages: 303

Size: 6.25" x 8.5"

Weight: 1 lb 11 ozs

Maria Louise Ramé (1839 – 1908), going by the name Marie Louise de la Ramée and known by the pseudonym Ouida, was an English novelist. Ouida wrote more than 40 novels, as well as short stories, children's books and essays. Moderately successful, she lived a life of luxury, entertaining many of the literary figures of the day.

This book is from the estate of Caroline (Caro) Weir Ely (1884 - 1974). She was an accomplished bookbinder, printmaker, etcher, and painter. She was educated in both New York and Paris and continued to work, maintaining a studio, even after she married and became a mother, a rare occurrence in the early 1900s. She settled in Old Lyme, Connecticut, a town known for its art colony. Like her father Julian Alden Weir a noted American Impressionist painter, she often painted near her home. Following her father's death, she sometimes printed his etched plates, producing posthumous editions of his landscape prints. Wikipedia

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