Mrs. Dinah Craik - The Fairy Book: The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew

London, Macmillan and Co, 1913 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Dinah Craik's beautifully bound and vibrantly illustrated volume of fairy tales, with plates by Warwick Goble. The first edition of this charming work.Illustrated with thirty-two colour plates by Warwick Goble. Collated, complete.First published in 1863, this is the first edition with Warwick Goble's illustrations. Including classic fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Tom Thumb, Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, Jack and the Bean-Stalk, Little Red-Riding-Hood, Puss in Boots, and others.With the inscription of Phyllis Plerry to the front free endpaper.Goble is best remembered for his illustrations of fairy tales, and for scenes depicting Japan, India, and Arabia. In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally, very smart. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Scratches towards fore edge of rear board with small hole in the cloth. Head of front joint starting, with board firmly held. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, binding lightly strained throughout. Pages bright, with instances of spotting to page perimeters, and with significant handling marks to leaf perimeters to rear of the work. Very Good . Ill.: Warwick Goble. Very Good .

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