Kingsley (Charles) The Water-Babies, first edition, first issue with 'L'Envoi' leaf present, cut signature of the author laid down to front free endpaper, illustrations by J. Noel Paton, Jeremiah James Colman's copy with his bookplate, book binder's ticket to front pastedown, marginal toning and a few spots or marks, cracking at upper hinge, else a bright copy, contemporary half calf, spine with morocco labels, a few cracks to upper joint, 1863 § Burnett (Frances Hodgson) The Secret Garden, first English edition, first impression, 8 colour plates by Charles Robinson, captioned tissue-guards, 6 pp. advertisements at end, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper and half-title, bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown, scattered foxing, mostly marginal, some glue residue to upper hinge, original pictorial green cloth, gilt, spine gilt, spine darkened with chipping at ends, some cracking at upper joint, 1911, extremities rubbed and bumped, 4to (2)

⁂ Jeremiah James Colman was the third member of the Colman’s Mustard family to lead the company and served as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Norwich from 1871 to 1895. He was a prominent social reformer, as was Charles Kingsley, making it likely that the two moved within the same social circles and may have been acquainted.