Andrew Lang [ed] — The Yellow Fairy Book

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1894. Hardback. The scarce limited large paper edition of Andrew Lang's beloved yellow fairy book, illustrated throughout with Ford's stunning plates. The limited edition, large paper edition. Number 6 out of one hundred and forty copies. This limited edition was published in the same year as the first edition, and is desirable due to the small limitation.Beautifully illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, with a monochrome frontispiece, monochrome vignettes, and twenty-one. Collated, complete. 'The Yellow Fairy book' is the fourth book in Andrew Lang's renowned 'Fairy Book' series, in which Lang compiled fictional and sometimes true stories, fairy tales and folk tales from around the world. This volume included many stories from Hans Christian Anderson, and feature stories such as 'The Six Swans', 'The Three Brothers', 'Thumbelina', and many more. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Externally very smart with fading to the spine, and light handling marks. Light offsetting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages, with several pages unopened. Very Good . Ill.: H. J. Ford [Henry Justice Ford]. Very Good .