19 Mar 2013
14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Historical Photographs
Back to auction 20751
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Historical Photographs
Back to auction 20751
LANG (ANDREW)
COMPLETE SET OF THE FAIRY BOOKS, 12 vol., all illustrated with plates, endpapers, and cover designs by H. J. Ford, G. P. Jacomb Hood and Lancelot Speed, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., some spines bumped, 'Pink' and 'Lilac' a little faded [Osborne Collection I, pp.34-36, and II, p.604], 8vo, Longmans & Co., 1889-1910
Sold for
£6,875
inc. premium
Footnotes
- A FINE AND COMPLETE SET OF FIRST EDITIONS OF ANDREW LANG'S CLASSIC FAIRY STORIES. The set comprises Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown, Orange, Olive and Lilac. Lang had intended to finish the series after the Green Fairy Book (the third in the series), as he stated in the Preface, but in the fourth, the Yellow Fairy Book, he thanks all the children who urged him to continue the series.
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