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LANG, Andrew (ed.)
Complete Set of Large Paper Fairy Books.
[Comprising:] Blue (1889); Red (1890); Green (1892); Yellow (1894); The Blue Poetry Book (1891); The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898).
Publisher: London and New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1889–98
Stock code: 22174
Price: £8,500 Currency Conversion
All Large Paper editions. Limited to 73 / 113 (Blue); 50 / 113 (Red); 140 / 150 (Green); 72 /140 (Yellow); 123 / 150 (Poetry); 53 / 75 (Arabian Nights). Only the first four Fairy books were issued as large paper copies, along with the Poetry book and The Arabian Nights.
6 volumes, large octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full morocco (in the respective colours, Poetry in light blue, Arabian Nights in light green), titles and box design to spine gilt, raised bands, rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. With numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford and G. P. Jacomb Hood. A fine set.
