• "The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"
  • "The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"
  • "The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"
  • "The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"
  • "The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"
  • "The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"
  • "The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"
  • "The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"
  • "The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"
  • "The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"
  • "The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"
  • "The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"
  • "The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"
  • "The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"
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"The Brown Fairy Book", "The Violet Fairy Book" and "The Animal Story Book"

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Item Details

Title and Author/Editor The Brown Fairy Book (1904), The Violet Fairy Book (1906),The Animal Story Book (Edited by Andrew Lang, 1896)
Genre Children’s, Anthology
Illustrator (English, 1860 – 1941), H. J. Ford
Type of Illustration Offset Lithograph
Binding Cloth on board
Publisher or Printer Longmans, Green & Co.
Period Late 19th/ Early 20th Century
Place of Publication New York, London
Edition Statement Early Edition, First Edition
Language English
Complete Set No
Number of Books 3
Additional Information All volumes are part of The Fairy Book Series which were edited by Andrew Lang. The covers are gilt embellished and the text edges are gilt.

Condition

- wear to the covers with fraying, bumped corners, rubbed edges and soiling; cracked hinges; crayon coloring to several black on white illustrations; writing to endpapers; tanning, foxing and soiling to text; loss of gilt to edges and lettering.

Dimensions

1.5" W x 7.5" H x 5.25" D

- measures The Violet Fairy Book.

Item #

ITMG532398

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