By Andrew Lang
London   Longmans, Green, and Co
7.5" by 5" xi, [1], 371pp
The first edition of Andrew Lang's immensely popular collection of sweet and moralistic fairy tales for children, illustrated throughout with colour plates.
By Andrew Lang

1903 The Crimson Fairy Book

London   Longmans, Green, and Co
7.5" by 5" xi, [1], 371pp
The first edition of Andrew Lang's immensely popular collection of sweet and moralistic fairy tales for children, illustrated throughout with colour plates.
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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition.

Illustrated with a vignette title page, seven colour plates, thirty-five monochrome plates, and ten in-text engravings.

Collated, bound without the colour frontispiece.

'The Crimson Fairy Book' is the eighth book in Lang's popular colourful fairy tale series.

This crimson volume contains stories from Hungary, Russia, the Baltic, Tunisia, Iceland, Finland, and elsewhere.

Containing 'Love Ilonka', 'The Prince and the Dragon', 'The Boy Who Could Keep a Secret', 'The Cottager and His Cat', 'The Magic Kettle', and more.

Andrew Lang is best known for these collections of fairy tales, and was an avid collector of folk and fairy tales. He was a Scottish poet, novelist, and literary critic.

Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, a noted English illustrator who is best known for his beautiful illustrations for Lang's works.

Condition

In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light rubbing to the joints and extremities. Spine is lightly faded. A few minor marks to the boards, mostly to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only a few scattered spots. Pencil annotations to the contents lists. Bound without the colour frontispiece.

Very Good

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