The Blue Fairy Book ANDREW LANG FOLIO SOCIETY 2010 Fairytales/Fairy Tales FINE
Item History & Price
The Blue Fairy Book, Andrew Lang with illustrations by Charles Van Sandwyk. Printed by The Folio Society 2003, this is the 2010 Eighth printing.
Near Fine Hardback. No inscriptions or bookplates. Charles Van Sandwyk (illustrator). With 16 colour plates and other text illustrations in black and white. This wonderful collection of fairy stories, put together by Andrew Lang at the end of the 19th century, gathers many of the best loved tales of childhood - 'Old stories', Lang calls the...m in his preface, 'that have pleased so many generations'. They include the best of the English tradition, favourites from Grimm, Perrault, The Arabian Nights and Gulliver's Travels, as well as lesser-known tales and new re-telling's, such as Lang's own 'The Terrible Head' based on the Greek myth of Perseus and the Gorgon. Reared on 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'. He was enthralled by trolls and witches, and stories of changelings and devilish hunts. Later the tales of Shakespeare, Homer and Dickens were to fire his imagination. Illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk.
Superb near fine copy of this highly collectable edition. It does not have the plain slipcase. Superb high quality and stunning fairy book, Please see the photos ask any questions.
Near Fine Hardback. No inscriptions or bookplates. Charles Van Sandwyk (illustrator). With 16 colour plates and other text illustrations in black and white. This wonderful collection of fairy stories, put together by Andrew Lang at the end of the 19th century, gathers many of the best loved tales of childhood - 'Old stories', Lang calls the...m in his preface, 'that have pleased so many generations'. They include the best of the English tradition, favourites from Grimm, Perrault, The Arabian Nights and Gulliver's Travels, as well as lesser-known tales and new re-telling's, such as Lang's own 'The Terrible Head' based on the Greek myth of Perseus and the Gorgon. Reared on 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'. He was enthralled by trolls and witches, and stories of changelings and devilish hunts. Later the tales of Shakespeare, Homer and Dickens were to fire his imagination. Illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk.
Superb near fine copy of this highly collectable edition. It does not have the plain slipcase. Superb high quality and stunning fairy book, Please see the photos ask any questions.
