Original Victorian shaped doll book Dolly Dear. Raphael Tuck c1880 8 pages about Dolly Dear at the seaside, busy in the garden, making friends with puppy etc. 4 colour and 6 line illustrations, verses by Grace c Floyd. 160 x 100 mm [approx 6 ½” x 4”] glossy pictorial thin card wraps. The staple binding reinforced at some time with paper at hinge, and re-sewn with thread. Raphael Tuck and Sons, Designed at the Studios in England, Printed at the Fine Art Works in Saxony. Pre 1881, as Raphael Tuck became a Limited company at that date. Not listed on Copac, no other copy located.