Beschreibung:

(Fairy Books, Andrew Lang etc), a collection of fourteen fairy related children's & illustrated books, including seven Andrew Lang fairy books, comprising: 'The Orange Fairy Book', L, Longmans, 1906, 1st edition, 8 colour plates + 17 b/w plates & numerous ills. in text by H.J. Ford as called for, rebound buckram, leather gilt labels to front cover and spine, marbled end papers & pastedowns, original pictorial orange cloth gilt front cover laid down to leaf before half title, all edges gilt (leaves internally clean/VGC), 'The Red Fairy Book', L, Longmans, 1893, 4th edition, rebound quarter red cloth gilt over marbled paper covered boards, panel of original red cloth gilt laid down on FFEP, all edges gilt, plus a 1918 13th impression of 'The Green Fairy Book', orig. green cloth gilt (rubbed and worn), and 1922 new impressions of 'The Violet Fairy Book' and 'The Pink Fairy Book', each orig. cloth (worn), plus 1950's/60's editions of the blue and green fairy books; plus 'Queen Mab's Fairy Realm', George Newnes, 1901, a/f, lacks frontis & title page (these supplied in facsimile), but with all 67 black & white ills. present, including the 5 by Arthur Rackham original pictorial cloth gilt, inner joints professionally reinforced, all edges gilt; Enid Blyton: 'The Green Goblin Book', L, Newnes, [1935], 1st edition, colour frontis, b/w ills. original cloth; William Shakespeare: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', L, Freemantle, 1901, frontis + b/w ills. by Fanny Railton throughout, original pictorial cloth; plus 4 others similar (14)