Lot 127
  • 127

LANG, THE RED FAIRY BOOK, 1890 [WITH:] THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK, 1892, DUST-JACKET (2 VOL.)

Estimate
700 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • Andrew Lang
  • Two Fairy Books comprising;
  • Paper
i) The Red Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. 8vo (180 x 120mm.), FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 3 plates, together with other illustrations throughout the text by H. J. Ford & Lancelot Speed, 20 pp. of publisher's advertisements, original pictorial red cloth gilt, all edges gilt, deep purple endpapers, minor spotting, bumped; ii) The Green Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. 8vo (180 x 120mm.), FIRST EDITION, frontispiece full page plates, together with other illustrations throughout the text by H. J. Ford, 2pp. of publisher's advertisements original green pictorial green cloth gilt, all edges gilt, black endpapers,  dust-jacket, dust-jacket soiled and worn at extremities, with chipping and browning, upper board slightly soiled (2)

Condition

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