Illustrated Gift Books
1. ALDIN, Cecil BLACK BEAUTY The autobiography of a horse. By Anna Sewell. Boots the Chemist, [c1930]. Handsome gift edition with Aldin illustrations. 4to. Original blue cloth with gilt embossed design and titles on the spine and top panel. Eighteen colour plates by Aldin mounted under cap- tioned tissue guards. A very good copy indeed, foxed to edges and with some spots of foxing within. Contemporary ownership inscription to front paste- down. [46576] £150 A charming version of this horse tale.
A beautiful collection of favourite fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, including Hansel and Grethel, Rapunzel, The Shoes Which Were Danced to Pieces and many more.
3. BARKER, Cicely Mary FLOWER FAIRIES OF THE GARDEN Blackie & Son Ltd., [c1950]. Early edition. 12mo. Paper covered boards with colour illustra- tion on the upper cover in pictorial dustwrapper. Pictorial end- papers and 24 colour illustrations of different fairies, each with
accompanying poem. A very good copy indeed with bumping to the back board and the spine ends, in a very good dustwrap- per indeed, with tiny chips to the spine ends. [46205] £75 These delightful books are part of a series which Cicely Mary Barker be- gun in the 1920’s when she provided rhymes and illustrations for three books of the seasons, spring, summer and autumn. After a gap of almost two decades, she added to the canon of flower fairy books with books of British flowers and trees.
2. ANDERSON, Anne THE FAIRY TALES OF GRIMM AND ANDERSEN Collins, [c.1925]. First edition. 4to. Original blue boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, in the original dustwrapper which has a colour onlay to the upper panel. Eight colour plates, nine full page line drawings and further illustrations in line, all by Anne Anderson. A very good copy, spine a little uneven due to the chunky size, repairs to tears to the top edge of pages 157 and 159 (book 2) and a gift inscription to the free front endpaper, in the very good, rare orig- inal dustwrapper, which is bright and attractive. [46162] £650
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