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The Land of Enchantment
Frontispiece and illustrations (many full-page) by Arthur Rackham

Ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly darkened, with small nick to wards head and slightly frayed at end, 1907

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The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales from the Old French
A.T. Quiller-Couch. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910.

Illustrated by Edmund Dulac with 30 tipped-in color plates, tissue guards. (4to), original red cloth elaborately gilt. First Trade Edition.

Classic French fairy tales beautifully illustrated by the modern master, in addition to Sleeping Beauty the volume also includes Blue Beard, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and more. Laid in is an exhibition notice from Leicester Galleries for the original water-colour drawings for this work.

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Aesop
Vita Et Fabellae, Cum Latina Interpretatione. Basel: Johann Froben, January 1518

5 parts in one volume, 8vo (176 x 119mm.), Greek text with Latin translation on facing pages except for Galeomyomachia in Greek only, titles within woodcut ornamental borders, woodcut printer’s device at end of each part, manuscript annotations on free endpapers, seventeenth-century calf, early manuscript fragments used as pastedowns, some browning, wormholes at edges of title and first few leaves, tear to foot of title, ownership inscription at foot of title erased, rebacked.

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The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales from the Old French
A.T. Quiller-Couch. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.

Classic French fairy tales beautifully illustrated by the modern master, in addition to Sleeping Beauty the volume also includes Blue Beard, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and more.

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The Book of the Flower Fairies
Cicely Mary Barker . Blackie & Son Limited, ca. 1927.

Bound in green cloth with bright gilt embossing, this antique volume is a first edition of Cicely Mary Barker’s poems on flower fairies, combining her works on the fairies of Spring, Summer and Autumn. The work is contains many gorgeous, full-page color illustrations of various fairies.

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The Palace of Enchantment
or, entertaining and instructive fairy-tales

For William Lane, at the Minerva Press, 1794.

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Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, early 20th Century

Both volumes in this set of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales are bound in transparent vellum over pale green paper with a panel design in art nouveau style. Each volume has a heart-shaped centerpiece featuring characters from the fairy tales, with the theme repeated on the lower covers. The spines are decorated in similar art nouveau style and are lettered in blue.

Source: National Library NZ on Flickr Commons

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patchyhero:

“Old French Fairy Tales Virginia Sterrett 1920 1st ed” Ah crumbs! I dearly wish to own this. Easter present, anybody?

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The Faerie Queene, vol. one and 2 only
Edmund Spenser.

Mixed edition, edited by Thomas J. Wise, illustrations and decorations by Walter Crane, crushed blue morocco gilt by Cedric Chivers of Bath, the first with inset “Vellucent” panel depicting St. George holding a lance and sword (of mother-of-pearl) on upper cover, the second with all-over design of English roses in red morocco onlays and gilt, both t.e.g., preserved in drop-back boxes.

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Cover of In Powder and Crinoline, illustrated by Kay Nielsen, c.1913 (via Amy Crehore)

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Dorothy Lathrop, illus. for Down-Adown-Derry by de la Mare, 1922

“There is a fairy of syntax just as there is one of snow, one of chance, one of coincidence and encounters, one of freedom, one of scandal, and still another, of solitude.”

A wonderful article (by guest blogger Edward Gauvin) on Fernand Dumont’s Treatise on Fairies, 1940, on A Journey Round My Skull’s blog.

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The Chimes: A Goblin Story
Charles Dickens. Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard, 1845.
First American Illustrated Edition; First American cloth-bound edition.

12 lithograph plates including illustrated title page. (12mo) 6¼x4, original finely ribbed blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind, custom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase.

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Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen, New York: George Doran Company, 1924,
Illustrated by Kay Nielsen.

First trade edition, original cloth and pictorial boards, with twelve mounted color plates, 4to, (spine faded and with some losses, inner hinge split, average wear).

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Les Fleurs Animees
Grandville (1803-1847), Paris, c. 1867

Two volumes, with numerous chromolithograph plates, gilt and multicolored pictorial cloth, 8vo

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Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson

Frst trade edition, 12 mounted colour plates and other illustrations by Kay Nielsen, original light blue cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt, corners slightly bumped, dust-jacket chipped and frayed, 4to, [1924].

B-A Note: Hmm, that’s the second book illustrated by Kay Nielsen that I’ve found in as many days. I need to do further research on him.