Little Tales, 4 volumes, 6th edition, Guben, Germany: F. Fechner, and London: A. & J. Myers, circa 1850s, eight hand-coloured lithographed plates, including frontispieces, each title with blind-embossed bookseller's stamp from Guben, scarce light spotting, similarly bound in original gilt patterned paper boards, each with embossed floral motif onlaid in centre of upper cover, some joints and spine ends lightly rubbed, rear joint of volume 3 slightly splitting at tail, contained together in original decorative cardboard box (worn), lid (two corners split) with remnants of embossed decoration and wording 'The Lilliputian Library', 71 x 102 x 26 mm (2.75 x 4 x 1 ins) See Welsh 2799 and 2800. Not in Osborne or Gumuchian. Ours agrees with the Bodleian Library's copy, although their description does not state edition. Volume 1 contains 'Story of Flora', 'The Ape', 'The Two Mice'; volume 2 'Alib�e, 'The Young Princes', 'The Bee and the Fly'; volume 3 'A Journey to Fairyland', 'The Story of an Old Queen and a Young Peasant'; volume 4 'The Island of Delight', 'The Cat and the Rabbits', 'The Meeting of the Animals to Choose a King'. A rare survival. (1)
Little Tales, 4 volumes, 6th edition, Guben, Germany: F. Fechner, and London: A. & J. Myers, circa 1850s, eight hand-coloured lithographed plates, including frontispieces, each title with blind-embossed bookseller's stamp from Guben, scarce light spotting, similarly bound in original gilt patterned paper boards, each with embossed floral motif onlaid in centre of upper cover, some joints and spine ends lightly rubbed, rear joint of volume 3 slightly splitting at tail, contained together in original decorative cardboard box (worn), lid (two corners split) with remnants of embossed decoration and wording 'The Lilliputian Library', 71 x 102 x 26 mm (2.75 x 4 x 1 ins) See Welsh 2799 and 2800. Not in Osborne or Gumuchian. Ours agrees with the Bodleian Library's copy, although their description does not state edition. Volume 1 contains 'Story of Flora', 'The Ape', 'The Two Mice'; volume 2 'Alib�e, 'The Young Princes', 'The Bee and the Fly'; volume 3 'A Journey to Fairyland', 'The Story of an Old Queen and a Young Peasant'; volume 4 'The Island of Delight', 'The Cat and the Rabbits', 'The Meeting of the Animals to Choose a King'. A rare survival. (1)
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