A Book of Pictures and Verse by Florence Harrison
Elfin Song A Book of Pictures and Verse by Florence Harrison
Blackie, 1912.
First edition, deluxe issue. 8vo. Publisher's white buckram with lettering and vignettes in gilt, in a beige pictorial dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers with line drawings of fairy folk. Line drawings and decorative borders to each page of verse. Twelve mounted colour plates under captioned tissue guards and 12 black and white plates. A fine copy, with the cream buckram exceptionally clean and crisp. Internally clean with a faint crease to the plate on page 128, in a very good dustwrapper, with a small chip to the tail of the spine.
A delightful book full of fairy poetry with wonderful Art Nouveau style illustration Florence Harrison. Includes Christmas and New Year poems, as well as fairies, goblins and magical creatures galore.
Stock ID: 47063
£1,500.00
