Folk Tales

London. Macdonald. 1946.

First thus edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. 8vo. 257 pages. Decorative end papges. Colour and black and white Illustrations. Translated by M A Murray. Wear and chipping to dust jacket edges. Dust jacket price clipped. Owner gift inscription on half title page.

Very Good / Good + condition

London. Macmillan and Co. 1885.

New edition. Full tan calf binding by Bickers and Son. 8vo.. [x]/ 338 pages. Illustrated by Sir Noel Patton and Percival Skelton. Prize inscription to E. B. Bates, dated Midsummer 1887. Red marbled end pages and page edges. Clight marks to covers.

Very Good + condition

Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1952.

First edition (second issue). Hardback. Dust jacket. 8vo. xxvii/ 466 pages. Lightly illustrated. Dust jacket chipped and worn. Marks to dust jacket rear cover. Very light foxing to end pages. Owners name and address inside the front cover.

Good + / Very Good + condition

London. George Routledge and Sons Ltd. no date (circa. 1885).

Reprint. 8vo. xxxi/ 312 pages + 6 pages of adverts. Illustrated throughout. Corners bumped. End pages foxed.

Very Good condition

London. Macmillan and Co. 1875.

First edition. Full green Morocco leather binding with 5 raised bands. Large 12mo. [vi]/ 259 pages. Illustrated with seven superb full-page woodcut illustrations by Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) + vignette on title page. Prize inscription dated Easter 1879. Page edges and end pages marbled. One slight repair to a prelim page edge. Prelims slightly grubby. Covers rubbed and faded. esp. to spine which is now tan. Corners bumped. Clean internally.

Good + condition

One of Caldecotts earliest books. Scare.

London. George Routledge & Sons Ltd. 1906.

First edition. Original publishers cloth binding. Hardback. 8vo. no pagination. Lacks frontispiece. Illustrated with 7 of 8 tissue-guarded sepia photogravures after drawings by Thomas Maybank. Edges rubbed at head and foot of spine. Corners slightly rubbed. Light foxing/browning. Owners name and date (1906) on front end page. Clean and bright.

Very Good + condition

London. Allen Lane. 1980.

First edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. Small 4to. 141 pages. Illustrations. Owners gift inscription on front blank end page. Dust jacket price clipped.

Near Fine / Near Fine condition