The Fairy Book : Warwick Goble : Fairy Tales : Mrs Dinah Craik : First Thus 1913

The Fairy Book: The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew

By Mrs. Dinah Craik

Published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1913. First Thus. First published in 1863, this is the first edition with Warwick Goble's illustrations. Hardback book measuring 10.5" x 8". Decorative cloth binding, xiii [1], 1-378 [1]pp, illustrated with 32 colour plates by Warwick Goble.

Includes fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Tom Thumb, Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, The Blue Bird, Jack and the Bean-Stalk, Little Red-Riding-Hood, Puss in Boots, and others.

CONDITION
A very good copy. The cloth binding is good with a small repair to the top edge and with some light rubbing in places but generally very good for its age. Endpapers good with some light age-toning. All contents present including all 32 colour plates and pages in good clean condition throughout. Overall a very good copy.

(Loc : Glass Cabinet)