Fairy Tales

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The deluxe edition 7 one 525 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. In the original publisher's vellum, gilt titles & triple ruled, light spotting, corners bumped, slight surface soiling, slight bowing to covers. Spine, gilt titles & tooling, edges bumped. Internally, pink & white pictorial endpapers, half title with B&W images, Rackham signed limitation to verso, coloured frontis, title leaf with coloured images, [6], 7-287 pp, [1], 12 coloured illustrations, by Rackham, all with a captioned tissue guard & 59 B&W illustrations within text, t.e.g., others uncut. A nice example of a title normally found soiled. (262*197 mm 4to), (Riall p176. Latimore/Haskell p68). A collection of 24 of Andersen's fairy tales including The Snow Queen; The Flying Trunk; and The Garden of Paradise.