Little Women. Or Meg, Ho, Beth and Amy. With Illustrations in Colour by Jessie Willcox Smith. Boston: Little Brown, 1923. Reprint. Publisher’s black cloth boards, with illustrated panel to front cover, neat ownership name to front free endpaper, a very good copy

Illustrated with eight coloured plates by Jessie Willcox Smith.

Originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869 and based on the author’s own youthful experiences, ‘Little Women’ is one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. A coming-of-age novel It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, in the North-eastern United States.

Jessie Willcox Smith, one of the most prominent American illustrators of the early 20th century. Her artwork brings a tender, nostalgic quality to the story, capturing the warmth, innocence, and emotional depth of the March sisters’ lives in Civil War–era New England.