NMLP P-034915 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

Charles Kingsley · Macmillan and Co. (London and Cambridge) · 1863

The true first state includes a leaf bearing a poem titled 'L'Envoi', which Kingsley had removed from all but the first roughly 200 copies while the book was still being printed

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-034915 for "The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby" by Charles Kingsley (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034915, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).