The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book: A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations

Publication Date	1961
Publisher	George G. Harrap
Binding	Hardback
Condition	Good+, sound copy
SKU	22504
Notes	Maroon boards are slightly sunned to spine and spine titles are somewhat faded. Gilt to front is bright. Lightly rubbed. Bumped to corners. Previous owner’s name to endpaper. Text is very clean and neat and colour plates are very clean and crisp.

Description

Hardback. Reprint. 287pp. Colour frontis and 7 further colour plates. Over 50 further within text black and white illustrations, some across two pages. The black and white illustrations include line drawings and silhouette illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. gilt titles to front and spine in attractive type-face. stories include Hop O’ My Thumb, Cinderella, Dick Whittington, Henny-Penny, The Three Bears, Beauty and the Beast, etc. from writers inlcuding Charles Perrault, Brother Grimm, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, Hans Christian Anderson as well as those drawn from traditional English folk tales and from The Abrabian Nights.

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