1934 The Lilac Fairy Book Edited by Andrew Lang / Longmans Green & Co London / Beautiful Vintage Book / Richly Illustrated / 6 Colour Plates

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. The Lilac Fairy Book was originally published in 1910, by Longmans, Green and Co., London and this copy is a reprint from 1934. This edition was produced with blind-stamped decoration of a fairy floating among the moon and stars, with gilt decoration on the spine. Richly illustrated with six colour and many more black and white plates plus numerous illustrations in the text by HJ Ford. In clean and smart condition, with just a few minor condition points to note detailed below.

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 Lilac Fairy Book includes stories from all over the world including Portugal, Ireland, and Wales.

Inside the pages are clean and tightly bound with some occasional light spotting and the odd folded corner/edge. Light tanning and spotting to the closed outside edges. Has a name and date of Xmas 1934 on the front free endpaper, but no other writing or markings of previous ownership. All the beautiful illustrated plates are present as called for. The frontispiece illustration still has the original tissue guard in place. The book has developed a mild lean where it has become cocked (slanted) over time.  

The lilac cloth covered boards are in clean and bright condition. In very good order, with a light mark in the middle of the front board and some very light rubbing to the cloth at the corners and spine ends. The gilt titles and decoration are shiny bright.

Your vintage copy of The Lilac 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 card with a message. 

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H 19 cm x W 14.5 cm, 369 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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