Fine Books & Manuscripts
Tue, Jun 26, 2018 08:30PM EDT
Lot 251
The Fairy Family: A Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales.
Estimate: $200 - $400
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[Burne-Jones, Edward] (MacLaren, Archibald) The Fairy Family: A Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales. London: Longman, 1857. First edition. Original green cloth, pictorial gilt spine. Frontispiece, engraved half-title, and tailpiece, being Edward Burne-Jones? first book illustrations. 8vo. xv, 283pp, 4pp. ads. Spine ends rubbed, tear to right corner of ffep; bookplate, library stamps and annotations to prelims. With: three other English vols. of fairy tales: The Fairy Mythology (1850) by Keightley, frontis. by Cruikshank, leather; Lancashire Folk-Lore (1867) by Harland and Wilkinson, cloth; and Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825), text illustrations by Brooke [quarter leather, spine perished].
