and other Fairy Tales from the old French retold.
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1910].
A sumptuous edition, exquisitely illustrated; the additional stories are: Blue Beard; Cinderella; Beauty and the Beast.
First Trade edition, first issue 4to, 309 x 250mm (12¼ x 9¾ inches); mounted coloured frontispiece and 29 plates by Edmund Dulac, contemporary ink gift inscription to verso of second free endpaper, dated 1910, light spotting to blank free endpapers (as usual), otherwise internally very good; publisher's chestnut morocco, decorative gilt panels to boards and spine, a trifle rubbed at extremities, otherwise remakably sound and bright.
First Trade edition, first issue 4to, 309 x 250mm (12¼ x 9¾ inches); mounted coloured frontispiece and 29 plates by Edmund Dulac, contemporary ink gift inscription to verso of second free endpaper, dated 1910, light spotting to blank free endpapers (as usual), otherwise internally very good; publisher's chestnut morocco, decorative gilt panels to boards and spine, a trifle rubbed at extremities, otherwise remakably sound and bright.
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