Lot 344: Mee, Arthur (Ed). The Children's Encyclopedia and Questions Kids Ask Series. Various Publishers.
A collection of volumes comprising a multi-volume set of The Children’s Encyclopedia and a series of educational booklets. The Children’s Encyclopedia volumes are edited by Arthur Mee and bound in the publisher’s original blue cloth with gilt-stamped lettering and decorative blind-stamping to the spines. These hardcover volumes are octavo in format. One visible spine identifies the volume as Volume 6, covering pages 3725 to 4448. The lot also includes a collection of thin, numbered paperback volumes from the Questions Kids Ask series. These booklets cover a diverse range of educational topics including Everyday Life, Mammals, Inventions, Food, Insects and Spiders, Art and Entertainment, Plants, Customs and Traditions, Birds, Famous People, Fish and Sea Life, Toys, Games and Sports, Themselves, Animals, Stories and Fairytales, Words and Expressions, Faraway Places, Space and Stars, How Things Work, History, Weather, The Human Body, Science, Snakes and Frogs, and Myths and Legends, alongside an Index volume.
Condition report:
The blue cloth bindings of the encyclopedia volumes show visible shelf wear, including rubbing to the extremities, scuffing to the boards, and fraying at the spine ends. Significant toning is present on the paper edges. The paperback booklets exhibit general age-toning and minor creasing to the paper wrappers. Small orange adhesive price labels are present on the spines of numerous volumes in both sets. No dust jackets are present for any of the volumes.
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