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English Fairy Tales

Steel, F.A. (Retold by)

  • Publisher: MacMillan
  • Published: 1918 , London
  • Condition: Good
London: MacMillan, 1918. ix, [1], 341pp, [1], sixteen colour illustrations. Original full vellum, gilt to spine and upper cover, t.e.g., with illustrated endpapers. Spine rubbed with slight loss to gilt affecting a few letters, lower cover discoloured and with a large scratch running from head to foot. Previous owners book plate to reverse of front endpaper, occasional hint of foxing, otherwise internally quite bright and clean. With sixteen tissue guarded colour plates and forty-two illustrations to text by Rackham. Number four hundred and eighty-eight of five hundred copies, signed by Rackham to limitation leaf. Riall, page 132. Signed by Illustrator. First Thus. Full Vellum. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. 4to. Limited Edition.

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