Strahan's Boy's & Girl's Annual [1876]

MacDonald, George, Henry Kingsley, William Gilbert, Matthew Browne (pseud. of William Brighty Rands), etc. (contrib.s), GOOD THINGS: A PICTURESQUE MAGAZINE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, STRAHAN'S BOY'S & GIRL'S ANNUAL (London: Strahan & Co., n.d. [1875-1876]).  First edition, 23 x 17cm (large 8vo), in later dark green sand-grain cloth w/blind ruling & gilt title to spine, a.e. red-speckled, [i-iv], [1] 2-400 & [1] 2-384 pp. (paginated in 2 parts), profusely illus. w/full-page & in-text wood engravings.  Printed in London by M'Corquodale & Co., this vol., the 8th in the series, contains the Nov. 1875 thru Oct. 1876 monthly issues, & includes the 1st printings of MacDonald's "Three Pairs and One," "What the Owl Knows," "The Sea-shell" & "Morning Hymn," Kingsley's "The Mystery of the Island," "Our Forest in Winter" & "Our Old Man," Gilbert's "The Invisible Prince," & Rands's "The Adventures of Ulysses," "Don Quixote" & "Siegfried the Horned."  Binding Good (repairs to spine & hinges, & ep.s browned w/PO's name & date to fr. ep.); contents Good (3 leaves mended, some loss to fore-edge of Contents leaf, & occas. lt. foxing).  Shaberman 40 (xi-xiv).  (Inv. #747)  C$600 Home Page