Antique Fairy Tale Book set By Andrew Lang- Blue, Red, Green HC AL Burt 1900

Description: Antique Fairy Tale Book set By Andrew Lang- Blue, Red, Green HC AL Burt 1900 -- RARE Color Fairy Tale book set by Andrew Lang, Antique original first three books in the series: Blue and Red and Green Fairy books, First Edition illustrated, 1900 vintage fairy tales--Stunning vintage antique set of the first two books in Andrew Lang's Color Fairy Tales book series includes The Blue Fairy book, and The Red Fairy book with hundreds of stories and a thousand illustrations by H.J. Ford and G.P. Jacomb Hood from Dover Publications, based on the 1889 edition from Longman, this set is First edition thus. These are 1st printing, first edition thus books from the turn of the 20th century with decorative covers and are very rare and are highly sought after. These elaborately decorated and illustrated fairy tale novels are collections of timeless reading, bound in pictorial elegance from around the year 1900. Cover to cover, these are highly collectible and wonderful reading too. I enjoy that these rough and tumble copy can still be enjoyed. Though it is shabby, it's weathered over a century of reading. A diamond in the rough. These three books are in tattered reading condition (see pictures please, priced accordingly) with considerable shelf wear from age to edges and corners with torn canvas covered boards on front, back and especially the spine of the Red Fairy Book which someone scotch taped. The spines are not in tact and netting is exposed with loose leaves. Pages are yellow from age and creased and torn. Each book is stunningly canvas bound in colorful tones with correlating fairy color titles. The decorative stamped pictorial board hard covers of The Blue & Green Fairy Books show depictions of the Fairy Queen with her critters on the front cover and a knight fighting a dragon on the spine. The Red Fairy book cover is illustrated by a gnome on the spine and and a jester fairy riding a bee. The leaves are generally unmarked with no apparent missing leaves. Inscriptions inside the front covers with missing endpapers. These are both functional reading copies, but I am holding them carefully. They would make a good book restoration project. No odors.Each book measures 7 1/2" x 5 3/4" x 1 1/2" Each volume is just shy 400 pages. Lang's urge to gather and publish fairy tales was rooted in his own experience with the folk and fairy tales of his home territory along the Anglo-Scottish border. British fairy tale collections were rare in his time and Lang "was fighting against the critics and educationists of the day" who judged the traditional tales' "unreality, brutality, and escapism to be harmful for young readers, while holding that such stories were beneath the serious consideration of those of mature age". Therefore, Lang's books, particularly through the popularity of the Color Fairy series, revolutionized public perception of Fairy Tales gaining their cultural acceptance. The Color Fairy series in particular was immensely popular, helped by Lang's reputation as a folklorist and by the packaging device of the uniform books. The series proved of great influence in children's literature, increasing the popularity of fairy tales over tales of real life. The first four volumes (Blue, Red, Yellow and Green Fairy Books) are highly sought and increasingly rare finds in all the early editions following their original publication in the late 19th century. A. L. Burt company publishers were renowned for their publications of popular literature at the turn of the twentieth century. A.L. Burt's early first edition thus copies of the Color Fairy Books are a more affordable choice but also a genuinely enchanting edition of these color fairy books collected by Andrew Lang. This set is a perfect keepsake for a novice fairy tale collector. Ships wrapped in tissue, tied with string and handmade tags then packed securely in repurposed materials 'Waste not, want not'More nostalgic relics available in the Vintage & Antique Boutique

Price: 299 USD

Location: Grass Valley, California

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