3: Green Fairy Book: green slipcase 354pp. A stunning Volume of beautifully illustrated and presented volumes. Beautifully illustrated Folio Society editions of Andrew Lang?s Fairy Books with introductions and illustrations by modern authors and artists. (SC have some light shelf scuffs on edges.) Inside very clean & tight. In attractive pictorial coloured cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Heavyweight, so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery. The complete matching set in superb condition. Minor surface scuffs to lower face of some slipcases, otherwise Fine in like slipcases. Harlequin cloth blocked in colour and gilt to spine and upper boards, housed in plain variously coloured paper-covered slipcases. Each volume has pictorial endpapers, numerous line drawings within text and a varying number of colour plates, each by a different artist: "Blue", 2004, 17 plates by Charles von Sandwyck "Red" 2010, 16 plates by Niroot Puttapitpat "Green"2009, 14 plates by Julian Narvaez "Yellow" 2010, 13 plates by Danuta Mayer "Pink" 2011, 16 plates by Debra McFarlane "Grey" 2013, 13 plates by Lauren Nassef "Violet" 2010, 15 plates by Robert Venables "Crimson" 2011, 16 plates by Tim Stevens "Brown" 2010, 13 plates by Oman Rayan "Orange" 2013, 16 plates by Tomislav Tomic "Olive"2014, 14 plates by Kate Baylay "Lilac" 2014, 13 plates by Caitlin Hackett. Six of the volumes are First Folio printings (Green, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown & Orange), four are Second printings (Red, Yellow, Olive and Lilac) and two are Third printings (Blue and Pink). First Class International Shipping is not available for this item. *** PLEASE NOTE: Extra shipping charges may apply due to the weight of the book. This collection of celebrated tales includes famous stories such as ?Jack and the Beanstalk,?The Golden Goose,? and ?Rapunzel,? along with an eclectic assortment of fairy tales from around the world. ?The Red Fairy Book? is the second installment of Andrew Lang?s classic fairy books and first appeared at Christmas in 1890. Color and black and white Illustrations by Niroot Pattapipat. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and bindings, sharp tips, and clean unmarred boards. And thus, ‘almost by accident’, Lang produced The Blue Fairy Book, with the help of his wife, Leonora.Hardcover. Later the tales of Shakespeare, Homer and Dickens were to fire his imagination, along with his friendships with Kipling, J. He was enthralled by trolls and witches, by stories of changelings and devilish hunts. Reared on Scottish border ballads told by his old nurse, Lang was reading by the age of four and devoured ‘every fairy-tale I could lay my hands on’. They include the best of the English tradition, favourites from the Brothers Grimm, Perrault, The Arabian Nights and Gulliver’s Travels, as well as lesser-known tales and new re-tellings such as Lang’s own ‘The Terrible Head’, which is based on the Greek myth of Perseus and the Gorgon. The stories in the Rainbow Fairy Books were collected by Andrew Lang at the end of the 19th century, a gathering of many of the best-loved tales from his childhood – ‘old stories’, Lang calls them in his preface, ‘that have pleased so many generations’. Today his Rainbow Fairy Books are widely regarded as the greatest collections to be published in the English language. Between 18, Andrew Lang oversaw the translation and editing of hundreds of fairy tales from around the world.
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