Mary Macleod; John Hales — Stories from the Faerie Queene

London, Gardner, Darton & Co. 1897. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of fairy stories for children. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title page, and numerous in-text images. A collection of fairy stories, including: The Red Cross Knight, The Good Sir Guyon, The Legend of Britomart, The Squire of Low Degree, The Adventures of Sir Artegall, Sir Calidore, and more. Written by Mary Macleod, a British author known for her children's books. With an introduction by John Wesley Hales, a British scholar and man of letters. Illustrated by Arthur George Walker, an English sculptor and painter. With the publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original full pictorial cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpaper and half-title. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: A. G. Walker. Very Good Indeed .