ARTIST'S OWN COPY
Selected And Adapted From The Translations By Sir George Webbe Dasent.
Freemantle, 1910.
First edition. 8vo. Beautiful pictorial cloth fully illustrated in colour in the original buff coloured dustwrapper with drawings in dark green / grey to both upper and lower panel, printed price of 6/- net to the spine. Ownership signature of Horace Knowles to the verso free endpaper. Double page pictorial endpapers, colour frontis, colour illustrated title page and 6 colour plates. There are also lots of line drawings, some full page, one of which has been neatly hand coloured in. A very good copy in remnants of dustwrapper.
This book is jointly illustrated by the Knowles brothers. Colour plates are by Reginald Knowles, with the exception of colour plate at p.360 "The Blue Belt" which is a joint collaboration between the brothers. Line drawings mainly signed by the relevant artist. In total there are 25 fairy tales, including The Billy Goats Gruff and East of the Sun and West of the Moon.
PROVENANCE: From the collection of the artist Horace J. Knowles, thence family descent.
Stock ID: 32930
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