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FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. [xiv], including 3 pp. publisher's advertisements and series lists + 368 pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, with gilt block of General Gordon on front board. All edges gilt. Spine a little sunned with some wear at head and tail; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 8 colour plates including frontispiece, 17 full page plates and 23 drawings in text and by title page vignette. Pictorial endpapers. A companion volume to the series of twelve fairy books with titles named after different colours, written by Andrew Lang (1844-1912), Scottish poet and novelist. This title relate the stories of twelve heroes of history, including Florence Nightingale, Hannibal, Father Damien, dom Fernando, Prince of Portugal, the Marquis of Montrose, the Little Abbess, Angelique of Port Royal, General Gordon and the Emperor Theodosius. A handsomely bound and illustrated volume. CHILDRENS FAIRIES LIT. FICTION CHILDREN'S 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED FINE BINDING CHILDRENS

Early 20th century US edition of this classic book of fairy tales with a different binding style than the first edition, still elaborately designed for a gift audience. Andrew Lang is considered the fairytale taste-maker of late 19th and early 20th century British nurseries, with his color fairy book series leading the charge. Stories in this volume include "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Rapunzel," "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," and "The Story of Sigurd" (from Morris's translation of the Volsunga Saga). Typical for Lang's edited collections, the work to adapt and translate these stories has primarily been accomplished by others with whom he worked (often women), duly credited in the preface, though not the title page. This edition was issued in the Washington Square Classics series, a US marketing effort at reissuing well-known titles in beautiful gift editions in the 1910s and 1920s. 7.5'' x 5.5''. Original gilt-stamped navy color, pictorial paste-on. Pictorial endpapers printed in blue. Illustrated by Lee with full color frontispiece, six further full-page color images, and black-and-white vignettes. viii, 399, [1] pages. Binding rather bumped at extremities. Front hinge repaired. Interior clean, gilt bright.