PART ONE - FAIRY TALES, FABLES AND FOLK TALES
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in Clarke’s usual striking style, line drawings throughout the text. A very good copy indeed. [43612] £850
5. CLARKE, Harry THE FAIRY TALES OF CHARLES PER- RAULT With an Introduction by Thomas Bodkin Harrap, 1922. First edition. Twenty-four colour and black and white full page plates. A very good copy. [43613] £750 This is one of the most sought after and elusive of Clarke’s works. 6. CLARKE, Harry FAUST BY GOETHE Harrap, 1925. First edition, edition de luxe. 4to. Number 52 of 1,000 deluxe copies, signed by Clarke. Bound in original quarter vellum over plain grey paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge gilt and all others untrimmed. Pictorial endpapers. Twenty-one full page black and white and colour illustrations
7. CRANE, Walter; WISE, Thomas J. [ed.]; [SPENSER, Ed- mund] SPENSER’S FAERIE QUEENE A Poem in Six Books, with the fragment mutabilitie. George Allen, 1894-7. Six volumes. One of 1,000 sets printed on handmade paper. Each volume large 4to. Publisher’s ivory cloth bindings with gilt embossed decoration and red lettering. Top edges are gilt, all others are untrimmed. In the rare publisher’s box with hinged doors, lettered in gilt. Wonderfully illustrated by Wal- ter Crane, with decorative title pages, eighty-eight full-page woodcut illustrations, plus head and tail pieces and decorative
initials. An exceptional, fine set of a stunning production. Two closed tears to p.21 of Volume One. In a very good box. [43829] £4,500 Incredibly rare in such pristine condi- tion, and with the original publisher’s box. In a survey of auction records as far back as 1918, we have found no copies offered in the original box. 8. DOYLE, Richard JACK THE GIANT KILLER A facsimile of Doyle’s manuscript Eyre & Spottis- woode, [1888]. First edition, secondary binding. 4to. Lavender cloth with lettering and decoration in black. Each page with a decorative border and chro- molithographs. A near fine copy. [44106] £250
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