Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

In the illustrations for the novel and in the popular stage play that followed, Cedric’s hair was worn in shoulder-length curls. The mother and son then move to England, where Cedric, as Lord Fauntleroy, charms his embittered grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, and everyone else he meets with his open, egalitarian ways.

The novel’s protagonist, Cedric, and his mother, Dearest, live in America until Cedric learns that he is to inherit the title and estate of his paternal grandfather. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's (the publisher of St. Little Lord Fauntleroy is a sentimental novel by the English-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, her first children's novel. Chemised in a quarter dark blue morocco slipcase (chemise joints neatly strengthened). An excellent copy with an original quotation from the book. Minimal rubbing to extremities, inner hinges sound. Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in red, black and gilt, brown coated endpapers. With twenty-six illustrations from drawings by Reginald B.

With a signed ink quotation from the book loosely inserted ''He was always/lovable because/he was simple and/loving'/Frances Hodgson Burnett'. New-York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1886.įirst edition, first issue, with the imprint of the De Vinne Press on the verso of the final leaf of text. Item #04735 First Edition, First Isue of Little Lord FauntleroyīURNETT, Frances Hodgson. BURNETT, Frances Hodgson Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett