E. Gordon Browne — Little Dwarf Nose & the Magic Whistle

London, George G. Harrap & Company, 1916. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first U.K. edition of Edgar Gordon Browne's charming volume of two fairy tales, complete with colourful illustrations by Florence Anderson. The first U.K. edition.Two charming fairy tales retold by Edgar Gordon Browne, containing 'Little Dwarf Nose' and 'The Magic Whistle&apos. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and four monochrome plates.Collated, complete.Edgar Gordon Browne was the son of Hablot Knight Browne, known for his illustrations for Charles Dickens.Illustrated by Florence Anderson, also known as Molly MacArthur. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards. Externally, smart, with light rubbing and a few minor marks to the boards and spine. Paper boards are a little faded. Small chip to the backstrip. Hinges are starting a little but remain firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some occasional spots. Frontispiece and colour plate facing pages 62 and 78 are detaching. Good . Ill.: Florence Anderson. Good .