THE MAGIC CROOK OR THE STOLEN BABY. A Fairy Tale.

First edition, first printing. Original green cloth with titles and decorations in white to the spine and upper and lower boards, in dustwrapper. Top edge gilt. Beautifully illustrated throughout in black and white by Arthur Hughes. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities lightly rubbed. The contents, with light offsetting to the endpapers, some spotting to the prelims and closed text block edge and infrequently to the margins, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and chipped dustwrapper that is toned to the spine and has a few water marks to the front panel. The spine, split at the folds has secured with tape to the underside. Priced 5/- to the spine. Scarce in the dustwrapper.

A magical fairy story featuring a sheep dog, fairies, butterflies and goblins written by Greville Macdonald, the son of the hugely influential fantasy writer George Macdonald. Greville Macdonald was a medical doctor by trade, though he wrote on a wide range of subjects from medicine to biography to fairy tales.