THE VIOLET FAIRY BOOK BY ANDREW LANG 1901 FIRST EDITION

[LANG, ANDREW]. The Violet Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (19 x 12 x 3 cm.); pp. xii, 388. English text. Attractively bound in publisher's decorative cloth covers; all page edges gilt; black endpapers; half-title; frontispiece with tissue guard; profusely illustrated throughout by H. J. Ford. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure. Trivial bumping to spine ends. Covers very well-preserved. Interior largely clean with just a few small marks. Previous owner name neatly inked to half-title page.