1890 The Blue Fairy Book

Description

Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The third edition of this work, published the year after the first.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, seven plates, and many in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.

'The Blue Fairy Book' is the first book in Lang's influential 'Fairy Book' series.

This blue volume contains fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, Madame d'Aulnoy, Arabian Nights, and Norwegian folktales.

Arguably the blue volume contains the best known fairy tales, such as 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood', 'Cinderella', 'Aladdin', 'Beauty and the Beast', 'Hansel and Gretel', 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.

With a former owner's inscription to the half title.

With a sixteen page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated August 1889.

Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford and George Percy Jacomb-Hood. Ford was a noted English illustrator best known for his beautiful illustrations for Lang's works.