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London: Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd Book of verse for children from various authors, Annie Matheson, Clifton Bingham and others, not dated but late 1800s, from the Father Tuck's Golden Gift series. Pages not numbered but around 70 in overall clean condition just a few very occasional small light marks, slight browning to extreme edges as normal due to quality of paper used at publication, some light foxing to endpapers. Colour frontispiece and many B/w and single colour illustrations by various artists, all present as called for, No dust-wrapper. outer illustrated boards are worn to corners and some marking. Though not perfect still a pleasing sound example of this book. Raphael Tuck Sons was a business started by Raphael Tuck and his wife in Bishopsgate in the City of London in October 1866,[1] selling pictures and greeting cards, and eventually selling postcards, which was their most successful line. Their business was one of the best known in the "postcard boom" of the late 1800s and early 1900s. During the Blitz, the company headquarters, Raphael House, was destroyed including the originals for most of their series. The company never fully recovered.