Enid Blyton Book Of Fairies KNOWLES, Horace J.: BLYTON, Enid Knowles’s next commission from George Newnes was for forty-nine line drawings to illustrate a book of poems and stories of fairyland by the young and, at that time, little known author Enid Blyton. The stories and illustra- tions were then reproduced ten years later in News Chronicle’s Boys And Girls Story Book No.2 . 33. Forty Two Original Drawings For The Enid Blyton Book Of Fairies 1924 . Forty two (of 49) original pen and ink drawings on paper. One has a delicate colour wash. Mainly 31cm x 25cm.. All are initialled or signed and dated by Knowles. In the margins are Knowles’s pencilled instructions to the printers plus his titles for each drawing. [32990]
31. The Enid Blyton Book Of Fairies Newnes, 1924. First edition. 4to. Red cloth spine and pictorial paper covered boards. With ownership signature of Horace J. Knowles and date of 1924 on the front past- edown. Upper cover illustration and col- our frontis by Lola Onslow. Line drawings throughout by Horace Knowles, including a fold out map. A very good copy indeed. [32918] 32. Boys And Girls Story Book No.2 News Chronicle, [1934]. First edition. 4to. Red cloth spine and paper covered boards with colour illustration by Ernest Aris. The first story illustrated with one colour plate and line drawings by Kathleen Nixon. The sec- ond story has one colour plate by Lola On- slow and many line drawings by Horace Knowles, plus a fold out map of The Land of the Fairies printed in blue. A good copy. [32928]
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