1906 The Queen's Museum and Other Fanciful Tales - Antique Illustrated Book

In very good condition, here is an antique copy of The Queen's Museum and Other Fanciful Tales by Frank R Stockton. With ten delightful colour plates by Frederick Richardson. Published in 1906 by Charles Scribner's Sons.

Being a collection of ten whimsical, imaginative fables.

Contains: The Queen's Museum; The Christmas Truants; The Griffin and the Minor Canon; Old Pipes and the Dryad; The Bee-Man of Orn; The Clocks of Rondaine; Christmas Before Last; Prince Hassak's March; The Philopena; The Accomodation Circumstance.

Inside the pages are clean, bright and tightly bound. No inscriptions or markings of previous ownership. All ten colour plates are present as called for. The top closed edge is gilt, the other sides untrimmed. Colour illustrated endpapers.

Black cloth over boards have a large colour paste down to front, and gilt titles to spine. Again in very good order. Some light scuffing in places - but minor.

Your antique copy of The Queen's Museum and Other Fanciful Tales will be wrapped with care in tissue and ribbon* and sent well packaged. I am always happy to include a gift card with a message.

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H 25 cm x W 19 cm, 219 pages, 0.94 kg. I dispatch worldwide daily from the UK. (There are just a very few countries which I am unable to ship to).

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