A New Book of the Fairies
London: Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Limited, 1897.
New Edition. Hardcover. "When you hear of people being clever, you may know that it is because the book-fairies love them..." You'll find book-fairies in great number in the pages of this 1897 children's fantasy, as well as bread-fairies, history-fairies, soot-fairies, fire-fairies, music-fairies, picture-fairies, flower-fairies, and more. A New Book of the Fairies is the work of the British novelist and suffragette Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936), a founding member of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), an integral member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League and Women’s Tax Resistance League, and author of the best-selling novel Ships That Pass in the Night (1893). In Publisher's Weekly's Christmas Bookshelf issue of 1897, they described A New Book of the Fairies as "lovely and poetical and rich in a tenderly imaginative spirit." Illustrated in monochrome frontispiece, 11 plates, and 32 vignettes by Edith Lupton, illustrator, designer, and ceramicist who worked for Doulton Ware from 1875 to 1890.
7 5/8" X 5 1/2". xii, 179pp. Bound in deep blue cloth over boards, with floral fairies stamped in gilt to upper board and spine, lettered in kind. Moderate wear to binding, with corners bumped and rubbed, small tears to head and tail of spine, light rubbing to gilt figures, and small stain and crease to upper board. All edges gilt. Slight lean to spine. Lacking front free endpaper. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Front hinge appears to have been reinforced with archival adhesive after starting to separate; hint of spine at center. Binding remains sound. Frequent smudges to pages throughout, else unmarked. Illustrated in 44 illustrations by Edith Lupton throughout. TW: There is one instance of the N-word in this book. Good. Item #10332
Price: $225.00