Andrew Lang — The Blue Fairy Book

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1895. Cloth. The seventh edition of Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book, with beautiful illustrations throughout. The seventh edition of Lang's Blue Fairy Book, first published in 1889. Bound in the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt detailing and fore edge. Illustrated with a frontispiece and six further plates, including numerous charming, in-text vignettes. Lacking a front blank, otherwise collated, complete. This collection presents a range of the most popular tales from a breadth of cultures; seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the Arabian Nights, and four Norwegian fairytales, among others. It is the first of Lang's twelve volume series of illustrated, Coloured Fairy Books. The delightful engravings are by by Henry Justice Ford (1860-1941) and George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857-1929). Bound in the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Some light soiling and bumping to extremities; notable at head an tail of spine. Joints rubbed with very slight loss to cloth. Sunning to spine. Lacking a front blank. Front free straining from lower hinge. Pencil inscription to verso of front free. Rear hinge strained and split, holding. Internally, straining throughout. Pages holding, some starting. Cords exposed in places. Tiding to the upper gutter of the text-block, most prominent towards the first leaves and decreasing throughout to page 190. Pages clean with the odd spot throughout. Good Only . Ill.: H. J. Ford; G. P. Jacomb Hood. Good Only .