WILLIE AND LUCY ABROAD by Agnes Giberne London: The Religious Tract Society, [circa 1873]. First edition. Illustrated with four beautiful chromolithographs in strikingly rich colors by J.M. Kronheim Co., and with monochrome engraved scenes in the text. The third book featuring young Willie and Lucy, finds the children traveling in an adventure to exciting and scenic Switzerland. A lovely, early illustrated binding. Rubbing to shelf-edges and with some wear at the corner tips, two small, mild, see-through cream stains to the lower front cover, inner hinges cracked--still holding sturdily, a few tiny, minor internal spots, else very good in russet-brown linen with gilt titles above a full front cover scene illustration embossed in black and enhanced with three portions of the scene in gilt: a double-deck horse-drawn coach, tourists in a rowboat, and a sailboat; decorative blind embossing to the rear cover, and gilt stamped titles to the spine, all page edges gilt. Square octavo; 92 pages; plus color plates; plus 4 pages of ads to the rear. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT VINTAGE ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS THANKS!