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Coloured Fairy Books Series by Andrew Lang #1241730

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Coloured Fairy Books Series by Andrew Lang #1241730
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Oh where to begin?If you are familiar with Andrew Lang?s twelve Coloured Fairy Books series (1889-1910) - then you know what I am talking about, if not you soon will. This is a collection of six of Andrew Lang?s fairy books in his highly collectible series. It consists of The Brown Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, The Orange Fairy Book, The Yellow Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book and The Blue Fairy Book. By Andrew Lang Illustrated by Henry Ford. In order to due these books justice I?ll break each one down by appearance, condition, publisher etc. First: The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang Illustrated by Henry Ford. With eight coloured plates and numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford. Longmans, Breen and Co 39 Paternoster Row, London New York and Bombay 1904 (First Edition). 12mo in size. This book is gorgeous in every way. It is bound in its original chocolate brown buckram (cloth) over boards with elaborate decorative gold gilt pictorials covering every inch of the front cover. The cover depicts a young girl in the center surrounded by fairies, butterflies, birds, bats, stars, a witch and much much more. The detail is exceptional and the gold gilt gorgeous. The spine also has gold gilt lettering along with elegant (again) highly detailed fairies. All edges are gilt and the endpapers are maroon with silver gilt fairies in flight on birds. The book does have some rubbing and wear to the gilt along with some shelf wear to the head and tail of the spine. The binding is slightly ...
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<tr><td>Condition:good to very good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:early 1900's</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Coloured Fairy Books Series by Andrew Lang</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Northport Maine 04849</td></tr>
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