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Grace James, Warwick Goble

Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales

Macmillan and Co.

1910

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Description

Deluxe, illustrated large paper edition of Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales.

  • Grace James (British).
  • Illustrated by Warwick Goble (British).
  • Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales. With Forty Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble.
  • London: Macmillan and Co., 1910.
  • Quarto.
  • 282 pages.
  • Illustrated with forty mounted color plates with captioned release sheets. 
  • Limited to 500 copies.
  • Text printed by R and R Clark of Edinburgh on watermarked handmade Aldwych paper.
  • Elegantly hand-bound in quarter dark green oasis morocco leather, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, extra gilt, cloth-covered sides decoratively ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed.


A popular ‘Golden Age of Book Illustration’ title, being a collection of Japanese folk tales and legends collected by Tokyo-born Grace James, the daughter of a Royal Navy officer stationed there.

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Fold to corner of three plates (as often found).

Minor signs of age and handling.

Dimensions

Height: 11.42 inches / 29 cm
Width: 9.06 inches / 23 cm

Language

English

Subject

Fine bindings, Short Stories, Childrens, Illustrated, Asia, Women Writers

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