GAMMER GRETHEL'S FAIRY TALES
ILLUSTRATED BY CRUIKSHANK AND OTHERS
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LAWRENCE HOUSMAN
RARE BINDING DESIGNED BY BLANCHE MCMANUS
*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ MANY ILLUSTRATIONS ~ HANDSOME PICTORIAL FINE BINDING ~ CLASSIC FAIRY TALES ~ SNOW WHITE ~ RUMPELSTILTSKIN ~ FAIRIES ~ ELVES ~ GOBLINS ~ FANTASY ~ MAGIC ***
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., Ltd., no date, circa 1905.
• measures about 7.75'' x 5.5''
• handsome original publisher's decorative cloth fine binding - design by Blanche McManus - marked with her 'BMcM' cipher lower left
• embossed gold gilt lettering to spine - pictorial stamping in black, white, and green
• textblock top edge gilt
• glossy color frontispiece by D. S. Hallett
• illustrated with many part-page monochrome pictures
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