English Fairy Tales Retold by F. A. Steel and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

St. Martin's Street, London: MacMillan & Co., Limited, 1927. 1927 at title page; third printing. Larger 6 1/4" x 8 1/4" design. Red full-cloth boards, gilt cover titles, moderate shelf wear; spine reinforced w/cloth bind adhesive. Crisp cover design features finely detailed crest-like silhouette collage of children in various states of reading wonder. Pages good; few w/moderate fox, toning. Frontispiece color plate by Arthur Rackham: "Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar at Home". Bind good; hinges intact. Features sixteen (16) color plates in brilliant subdued hues and forty-two in black & white by Arthur Rackham. Additional partial-page imagery, headers, tailpieces, symbology and decoration throughout. MacMillan & Co. adverts at back pages for illustrated titles in color. Solid, intact rarity. One of Arthur Rackham's books for English readers in the early post-war years. English Fairy Tales Retold by Flora Annie Steel, with its illustrations, features amongst many others, the grand fairy tales: "St. George of Merrie England; The Story of the Three Bears; Jack the Giant-Killer; The Golden Ball; Jack and the Beanstalk; The Three Little Pigs; Mr. Fox; The Old Woman and her Pig; Little Red Riding-Hood; The Babes in the Wood; The Ass, the Table, and the Stick; and, The Rose Tree." Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh. 317 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.