"Off for the Holidays" Sheilia Braine, G.H. Thompson, Ernest Nister Antique Book - Chromolithographs

Ernest Nister No. 4682 "Off for the Holidays" rare antique book. Verses by Sheila Braine, and signed illustrations by G.H. Thompson. Printed in England, E.P. Dutton & Co., New York. Oblong/landscape, 36 pages, eight full-page full-color illustration plates, nine full-page illustrations in black, nine in-text illustrations, plus pictorial title page, and green pictorial pastedowns, frontispiece, and endpaper. This scarce volume is a lovely showcase of Nister's bright and detailed chromolithography, G.H. Thompson's nuanced depictions of character emotions, and Sheila Braine's lively, rhyming verse and Victorian humor. It is a tale of the many nuisances of vacation travel, including the train getting stuck in the snow! It charmingly references the possibility of spotting a "flapper" woman, jokes about the time zone clocks at the train station, and includes familiar travel misadventure motifs such as bulky luggage, weather, family expectations, and adventurous pets and children. Uniqu