Josephine’s Christmas Party. Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton. London: Blackie, (1927). Publisher’s light brown paper boards, brown lettering to cream cloth spine, large pictorial colour onlay to upper panel.

Illustrated with eight colour plates including frontispiece on front board, and numerous drawings throughout the text.

Josephine is an 8 year old girl who, although an only child, never gets lonely because of the various adventures she has with her family of dolls. These illustrations are a delight to look at and capture the fun and reality of a little girl’s playtime with her dolls.

One of the ‘Josephine’ books written by Mrs. H.C. Cradock and published between 1915 and 1940.