"Riley Child Verse", by James Whitcomb Riley, with Pictures by Ethel Franklin Betts, First Series, published by the Bobbs Merrill Company, copyright 1906, first edition. Listed in [BAL 16781]

Ethel Franklin Betts Bains [September 6, 1877 - October 9, 1959], was an American illustrator primarily of children's books. She was the younger sister of the illustrator Anna Whelan Betts.
Betts studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, with the noted illustrator Howard Pyle at Drexel Institute, now Drexel University, and then at the Howard Pyle School in nearby Wilmington, Delaware.

Betts first gained work illustrating magazines including "St. Nicholas Magazine", "McClure's", and "Collier's". Beginning in 1904, she was commissioned to illustrate several books including James Whitcomb Riley's "The Raggedy Man", "While the Heart Beats Young", and Frances Hodgson Burnett's "A Little Princess".
Betts commercial work declined after her marriage to Edward Bains in 1909, occasionally creating cover art for magazines such as "House & Garden", but she continued to exhibit her portfolio. She received a bronze medal for her illustration of "The Six Swans" at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition. Along with Jessie Willcox Smith and Sarah Stilwell Weber, Betts was one of the "familiar" magazine and book illustrators in the early 20th century.

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Hardboards, original cloth with paste-on illustration on the front board, inscription on front endpaper, 7" x 9.3/4"; color frontispiece + 7 full-page color plates; 58 pages with c. 15 color illustrations, printed on heavy glossy paper, a little wear and foxing, very good binding and condition.