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London; New York: Blackie & Son Limited; H. M. Caldwell Company. Printed at the Villafield Press, Glasgow, 1908. First American edition, undated [1908]. Please read full condition description. Beautifully illustrated children's fantasy stories with 24 color plates and numerous line drawings and decorative borders. Green pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, 64 pages plus plates. Externally very good with some light fraying to spine ends, gilt bright and clear, light surface rubbing, hinges good, text block sound but with some plates edges protruding slightly from the text block. All plates are present, but when you look at them it's clear that they were reinserted and carefully reattached at one point due to some of the edgewear present. Most plates are very good, others not as much - we are including a photo of the worst one after page 16 along with this listing. There is some foxing to the first and last couple of leaves, a few little finger smudges to some… Read More

C6b. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Blackie & Son, London, UK. 1908. 63 pgs. 9 poems. 24 colour plates. B/w illustrations surround text. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A boy falls into the hands of trolls, pixies take over one household's chores, a fairy replaces mortal children with changelings, and a girl interviews the Man in the Moon. A sought-after illustrator in the Pre-Raphaelite vein, Harrison is celebrated for her contributions to books by Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and William Morris, as well as her original work. Florence Susan Harrison (1877–1955) was an English Australian Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite illustrator of poetry and children's books. Many of her books were published by Blackie and Son. She illustrated… Read More