Tall 4to. Original blue cloth, pictorial endpapers; with 16 fine coloured plates and stunning black-and-white and silhouette illustrations of fairies; externally marked, rubbed and irregularly sun-lightened, with faded and tanned spine, rear board with a long scratch; internally with occasional light and sporadic foxing, and with one plate unobtrusively reinserted, with marginal fraying to fore-edge.
First U.K. edition of one of the greatest fairy books ever conceived.
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