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 (Description) 

Author: Anne Macdonell. (Morris Meredith Williams, illustrator).
Title: The ITALIAN FAIRY BOOK.
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. First edition (stated).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 " X 6 ".
Pages: xi-403 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original decorated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed -  as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. A rare find in any condition!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, toning of endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Illustrated with 100 beautiful illustrations by Morris Meredith Williams. Colour frontispiece and illustrations throughout in black & white & red.

Estimate: (Scarce with few or no other copies available worldwide).

The book: Scarce and highly collectible complete original First edition of 'The Italian Fairy Book' by Anne Macdonell wonderfully illustrated by Morris Meredith Williams. Including Companions of the Forest, Fortune and the Booby, What the Stars Foretold, The Fairy Aurelia, LionBruno, In the Shoes of Swiftness, The Were-Wolf, The Clever Girl, The Goatherd and his Pipe, The Cock's Stone, Princess Longnose, etc.

The illustrator: Morris Meredith Williams (1881–1973) was a British painter and illustrator.