By the author of “John Halifax, Gentleman” [Dinah Maria CRAIK] The Fairy Book. London; Macmillan And Co., Limited. 1913

4to.; publisher’s teal cloth elaborately decorated in antique gilt to spine and upper board, with fairyland roundel in relief to upper cover, top edges gilt; pp. [vi], vii-xiii + 378 + [i]; with letterpress title in red and black and a total of 32 full-colour plates by Goble, all protected by captioned guards; an attractive copy with dulling to cover gilt as usual and some rubbing to pictorial roundel, bruising to spine ends but no splitting, some abrasion to joints and tiny wear to forecorner tips; internally fine, crisp and clean throughout save the usual (and seemingly unavoidable) heavy offset-tanning to front and rear pastedowns, without ownership inscription, or other internal signs of use.

First edition illustrated by Warwick Goble, with the full complement of thirty-two coloured plates.  Later editions of this work were abridged and included twenty-five stories, and sixteen coloured plates.

A remarkably pretty collection of thirty-six of the most popular fairy tales including, Sleeping Beauty in the Wood; Cinderella; Hop-O’-My-Thumb; Beauty and the Beast; Rumpelstilzchen; Tom Thumb; Puss in Boots; Little Red Riding Hood; Jack and the Beanstalk, The Frog-Prince; Puss in Boots; The White Cat and Little Snowdrop.