(Smith, Jessie Willcox) illustrator. THE BOOK OF THE CHILD; with facsimilies of drawings in color by Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green; and with stories and verses written for the pictures by Mabel Humphrey. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1903. FIRST EDITION; published in October, 1903. Folio - 15" x 14". Gray-green cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards with titles printed in black, and with a precious full color drawing of a small child reading a copy of the book to both front and back covers; the book is amazingly clean with just light scattered soiling and minor wear to the extremities, the heaviest wear being to the two lower fore edge corners and to the bottom edge of the front cover for what is a superb copy of this beautiful book. Plain endpapers. [30] leaves printed rectos only. The book is illustrated with seven breathtakingly beautiful chromolithograph plates, four by Green and three (plus the cover illustration) by Smith of young children at rest, work or play, plus several small black, orange and white drawings by the same two illustrators, within text; the stories and verses were written by Humphrey, specifically for these drawings; internally the book is without flaw. The condition of the book is VERY GOOD +. SCARCE; especially in such nice condition. # 000786