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1892 The Blue Fairy Book
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Description
Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The fifth edition, published three years after the first.
Illustrated with a frontispiece, seven plates, and many in-text engravings.
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.
Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford and George Percy Jacomb-Hood. Ford is 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, generally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light rubbing to the joints and extremities, heavier to the rear joint, where a small amount of the cloth is lifting. Spine is a little faded. Some light marks to the boards and spine. Rear hinge is starting but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright with some scattered spots.
Good
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