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Brabourne (Lord) Friends And Foes From Fairy Land
£200
London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1886.
First edition. 8vo. Original gilt-pictorial blue cloth.
A collection of fairy tales from Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne, a British politician who moonlighted as a children’s author, producing a book or two of these stories each year from 1869 to 1894.
In stock
Large contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, later ownership inscription to preliminary leaf, staining to fore-edge of some leaves; cloth slightly softened at head of spine, some rubbing to extremities.
Plates and illustrations by Linley Sambourne.
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