The Blue Fairy Book

by Andrew Lang

$4,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. First edition. A lovely, Near Fine copy. viii, 390, 2 , 16 publisher's ads . Illustrated with eight plates, including frontispiece. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt. Very minor edgewear to boards. All edges gilt. Dark blue coated endpapers. A bit of foxing, mostly to first few leaves, and a tear to edge of D2 touching a few lines but not

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