1901. No Edition Remarks. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Black and white photographic frontispiece. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Moderate tanning and light foxing to pages throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper and pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Water staining to front board. Wear marks overall.
Arthur Henry Mee (21 July 1875 – 27 May 1943) was an English writer, journalist and educator. He is best known for The Harmsworth Self-Educator, The Children's Encyclopædia, The Children's Newspaper, and The King's England.
Mee left school at 14 to join a local newspaper, where he became an editor by age 20. He contributed many non-fiction articles to magazines and joined the staff of the Daily Mail in 1898. He was made literary editor five years later.