1927 The Brown Fairy Book Edited by Andrew Lang / In Very Good Condition / Beautiful Vintage Book of Fairy Tales / Numerous Illustrations

A beautiful collection of fairy tales being a vintage book in the highly sought-after coloured fairy books series by Andrew Lang. These are becoming increasingly hard to get hold of especially in as good a condition as this copy, which is The Brown Fairy Book. Originally published in 1904, this copy is a New Impression from 1927 published by Longmans, Green and Co., London. This edition still has the charming illustration of a girl walking and holding a book surrounded by sprites, but in these slightly later editions they are blind stamped as opposed to gilt. Richly illustrated with eight colour plates and numerous illustrations by HJ Ford.

Lang had grown up with a love of myths and fables and towards the end of the 1880s he began to collect and publish some of his favourite tales. The Blue Fairy Book, was the result, published in 1889 it met with great critical acclaim. The Red Fairy book appeared in Christmas of the following year. Lang went on to produce a series of twelve collections of fairy tales, published between 1889 and 1910. Each volume is distinguished by its own colour. In all, 437 tales from a broad range of cultures and countries are presented. The Brown Fairy Book contains stories from the American Indians, Australian Bushmen and African Kaffirs, and from Persia, Lapland, Brazil, and India.

The contents of this copy are very good indeed with clean, bright and tightly bound pages with tanning to the endpapers and mild spotting in the text. Gapes at the gutter in one place near the beginning to reveal webbing, but the binding remains extremely strong and tight. Has a small inscription on the front free endpaper, but no other writing or markings of previous ownership. All of the eight colour plates are present and in super condition (see photos), there are also twenty-two black and white plates, plus a number of black and white illustrations in the text. The frontispiece illustration still has the original tissue guard in bright and clean condition.

The brown cloth covered boards are in top order. Has some mild rounding to the corners and spine ends. The gilt on the spine is shiny bright, and this is a smart, tight and square book.

Your antique copy of The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang will be wrapped with care in tissue and ribbon* and sent well packaged. I am always happy to include a gift message in the parcel if desired.

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H 19 cm x W 14 cm, 350 pages, 0.7 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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