THE LILAC FAIRY BOOK

First edition with these illustrations; first Folio Society edition, first printing. Publisher's original green lilac illustrated and with titles in silver, blue, white and black to the upper board and spine, housed in the blue card slipcase. Top edge lilac. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, 11 further full page colour plates, one full page black and white illustration and several smaller line drawings by Caitlin Hackett. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, structurally sound slipcase.

First published in 1910 with illustrations by Henry Justice Ford, this newly illustrated edition features an introduction by Geraldine McCaughrean. The volume contains 32 stories including The Shifty Lad; The False Prince and the True; The Jogi's Punishment; The Heart of a Monkey; The Fairy Nurse; A Lost Paradise; How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves; The King of the Waterfalls; A French Puck; The Three Crowns; The Story of a Very Bad Boy; The Brown Bear of Norway; Little Lasse; 'Moti'; The Enchanted Deer; A Fish Story; The Wonderful Tune; The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother; The One-Handed Girl; The Bones of Djulung; The Sea King's Gift; The Raspberry Worm; The Stones of Plouhinec; The Castle of Kerglas; The Battle of the Birds; The Lady of the Fountain; The Four Gifts; The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok; The Escape of the Mouse; The Believing Husbands; The Hoodie-Crow; The Brownie of the Lake; The Winning of Olwen.