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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam illustrated by Edmund Dulac 

Printed in 1934 - Finely bound in morocco leather with gilt details by Asprey of Bond Street London [complete with box]

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illustrated by Ronald Balfour London Constable and Company Limited 1920 - New Edition 1930 unpaginated - 38 finely printed tipped in plates in colour and black & white, the monochrome plates very much echo the manner of Aubrey Beardsley

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Queen Mab’s Fairy Realm

Illustrated by H Cole, A Garth Jones, A Rackham & R Savage

London George Newnes Ltd. 1901

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The Blue Fairy Book Edited by Andrew Lang with numerous illustrations by HJ Ford & GP Jacomb Hood London Longmans Green and Co 1893 Sixth Edition [First Published 1889]

The first of Lang’s coloured fairy books. Lang had grown up with a love of myths and fables, and towards the end of the 1880s he decided, with his wife’s help, to collect and publish some of his favourite tales. The Blue Fairy Book was the result, published in 1889 it met with great critical acclaim. The tales include Cinderella, Aladdin. Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Goldilocks and many other classics

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Coloured Fairy Books - Edited by Andrew Lang

Beautiful detailed gilt covers..

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The Olive Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

First Edition Longmans 1907

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Violet Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

First Edition Longmans 1901,

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Green Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

First Edition Longmans 1892 - The third book in the series

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Coloured Fairy Books 

Andrew Lang 

1889-1906

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare

Illustration by Arthur Rackham [1914]

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Superb Illustrated Edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking glass and what Alice found there

This edition published in 1911 is the first time John Tenniel’s legendary illustrations were printed in colour 

sadly the original covers are faded and marked as shown in the photos - but the contents are beautiful fresh and clean 

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

Illustration by John Tenniel

beautiful hand coloured copy 1870

Le petit chaperon rouge 

Illustrations by Felix Lorioux 1919

Queen Mab’s Fairy Realm

Illustrated by H Cole, A Garth Jones, A Rackham & R Savage

London George Newnes Ltd. 1901

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Attractive Christmas postcard in the style of Beatrix Potter c1905

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Tiffany Silver Dinner Bell….