One of eight volumes written by Silas Kitto Hocking. This set includes: Cricket: A Tale of a Humble Life. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates. Silas Kitto Hocking (24 March 1850 – 15 September 1935) was a Cornish novelist and Methodist preacher. He is known for his novel for youth called Her Benny (1879) which was a best-seller. Cricket: A Tale of Humble Life (1886) is a delightful example of Christian Victorian literature. Cricket tells a simple but heart-warming tale of two impoverished youths, Cricket (Caroline) and Billy, on the streets of Liverpool whose trials draw them into a friendship with one another. Billy, who has lived on the streets from a young age and never entered a church in his life, learns first of Jesus Christ from Cricket, and her life becomes a living testimony of the truth of the gospel in a way that the mystifying Sunday sermons in the local chapel cannot; they were “not for him. Royal Blue Hard Cover with gold writing and pictures (gilding or tooling) and also black embellishment with leaves and words . Gilt tint to page edges. Front Cover - Title and Author and person using a door knocker in gold. The words WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS are embellished in black, as are some illustrations of leaves or palm fronds Spine Title and author in gold plus the word ILLUSTRATED plus WARNE & CO. Back Cover - Black embellishment/decoration including leaves or palm fronds.silas kitto hocking