1910 Folk Tales From Many Lands

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty-five black-and-white plates, and many in-text decorations. Collated complete. A collection of folk tales from across the world, including: The Bell of Atri, The Emperor and the Abbot, Prince Ivan and the Grey Wolf, The Mouse Tower, The Three Lemons, and many others. Retold by Lilian Fanny Gask, a British author of children's books. Illustrated by William Andrew Pogany, a prolific Hungarian illustrator known for his children's books. His artistic style is heavily fairy-tale orientated and often feature motifs of mythical animals such as nymphs and pixies.