Description

• With 17 full-colour plate illustrations by Charles van Sandwyk
• Introduction by Joan Aiken
• Includes many of the best-known Fairy Tales, including Little Red Riding-Hood, Rumpelstiltskin, Sleeping Beauty & Cinderella
• The first of twelve coloured Fairy Books compiled by Andrew Lang around the turn of the century
• Folio Society published all twelve of these books in deluxe uniform editions – the story goes that the original plates for all bar this Blue Fairy Book were lost/destroyed rendering reprints of the set impossible & collecting a full set nearly that also
• First Printing [The Folio Society, London, 2003]; xx, 372, [2 blank] pages; blue buckram, blocked van Sandwyk illustration to front & titling on spine, a fine copy; in near-fine plain blue cardboard slipcase, gentle crease near top on one side