The brown fairy book / edited by Andrew Lang ; with eight coloured plates and numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford.
Walter Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
Category
Books
Date
1904
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258733
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 350, [2] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (8 col.) ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front free endpaper verso: "160 / net / 4X 15/4". Provenance: Blind embossed stamp on front free endpaper: Broughton family crest with motto 'Si je puis' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & Stationers, / Union Square / New York.' Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's brown cloth; single gilt fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt stamped illustration on upper board: child with open book surrounded by fairies and other magical creatures; gilt stamped illustration on spine: fairies; gilt lettered spine; gilt textblock edges; brown illustrated endpapers.
Makers and roles
Walter Andrew Lang (1844-1912), editor Henry Justice Ford (London 1860-1941), illustrator