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FAMOUS FAIRY TALES.
de CROWQUILL, Alfred. (Pseudonym of A. H. Forrester).:
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London, Ward and Lock, (1860).. FIRST EDITION circa 1860 (dated from V & A copy), 235 x 183 mm, 9¼ x 7¼ inches, white boards with 8 hand-coloured story vignettes on upper cover, each in a gilt frame, gilt lettered and decorated on upper cover, repeated on lower cover without hand colouring or gilt, adverts to endpapers, (96) pages, 4 stories paginated individually. Hand coloured title vignette of dog and fox, and 44 full page interesting brightly hand-coloured illustrations, plus 4 hand coloured pictorial half-titles, 1 to each story: The Two Sparrows; Kindness and Cruelty or, The Grateful Ogre; The Red Cap or, The Dwarf of the Rugen; Honesty and Cunning or, the Fox and the Farmer's Dog. Expertly rebacked to match, colouring on upper cover rather faded and slightly worn, corners and board edges slightly worn, some slight scratches and scrapes to upper cover next to spine. Occasional slight pale fingermarks, contents very bright. A very good copy. Books by Crowquill are actually illustrated by Alfred H. Forrester and written by Charles R. Forrester. These titles were all issued singly in 1859. They and this collected edition are quite uncommon. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- FAMOUS FAIRY TALES.
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- CROWQUILL, Alfred. (Pseudonym of A. H. Forrester).:
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- London, Ward and Lock, (1860).
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- original fairy tales Alfred Crowquill hand coloured illustrations children's giants birds foxes sparrows dwarfs dwarves
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Roger Middleton
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- Rebacked
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
