ANDREW LANG - The Red True Story Book - First Edition & First Printing - 1895

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ANDREW LANG - The Red True Story Book - First Edition & First Printing - 1895:
$157.23

TheRed True Story Book

editedby

AndrewLang

With 8 colourplates and numerous illustrations by

HenryJ. Ford

HenryJustice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific and successful artist andillustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920\'s.He cameto public attention when he provided the numerous beautifulillustrations for Andrew Lang\'s books,which captured theimagination of a generation of British children and were soldworldwide in the 1880\'s and 1890\'s, as this one was !

PublishedLondon - Longmans, Green and Co and New York in

1895

Dateto bottom of full title page and no other dates mentioned

Atrue first print of a highly prized book.

CONDITION& DESCRIPTION:

Redcloth boards withgold gilt lettering to spine and decoration tofront board. Lightening/soiling to the spine in comparison to theboards. Fewsoilmarks to rear board. Spine is chipped top and bottom, has a smalltear in the clothon the name \'LANG\' which is midway.Hasfraying to cloth edges.

Small area of scuffing to endpage atfront.Tissue guard present to frontispieceis lightlybrowned. Foxing throughout, few corner folds.

419pages clean and tightly bound to page block.

Pageedges are gold/gilted on all three sides of page and this looksmagnificent.

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