Fairy Tales retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
In Powder and Crinoline Fairy Tales retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Hodder & Stoughton, 1913.
First edition, deluxe issue. Number 67 of 500 copies, printed on large handmade paper and signed by the artist. Original green vellum, elaborately titled and decorated in gilt, with green silk ties. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Twenty-six colour tipped in plates, mounted on grey art paper with decorated borders, under captioned tissue guards. Text printed in grey with floral headpieces on each page. Chapter headers and tailpieces by Nielsen in line. A fine copy, bright and crisp, with just a little pushing to the corners, but none of the marking which usually affects the susceptible green pigment in the vellum. Slight browning to the endpapers, but much less than is usually encountered. An exceptionally well preserved copy of a very sumptuous production.
Nielsen's first commission which remains one of the most beautiful books to come out of the "Golden Age" of book illustration. This deluxe edition contains two extra plates not present in the trade edition.
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