Flower Fairies of the Garden
Blackie & Son Ltd., 1950.
Early edition. 12mo. Paper covered boards with colour illustration on the upper cover in pictorial dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers and 24 colour illustrations of different fairies, each with accompanying poem. A very good copy indeed with bumping to the back board and the spine ends, in a very good dustwrapper indeed, with tiny chips to the spine ends.
These delightful books are part of a series which Cicely Mary Barker begun in the 1920's when she provided rhymes and illustrations for three books of the seasons, spring, summer and autumn. After a gap of almost two decades she added to the canon of flower fairy books with books of British flowers and trees.
Stock ID: 46205
£75.00
