BANBURY CROSS SERIES - RHYS, Grace (editor). The History of Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper and Jack And The Beanstalk. London, J.M. Dent & Co. 1894.
Small 8vo.; publisher's citron silk-cloth pictorially blocked in gilt and lettered gilt to spine, top edges gilt, green pictorial endpapers, original crimson ribbon ties (securely attached); pp. [vii], 8-63; 38 accomplished half- and full-page woodcut illustrations by an unnamed illustrator (possibly H. Granville Fell); a very good copy with some fading and rubbing and pale brownish mottling to lower cover, internally clean and sound save some spotting to endpapers at front and rear.
First edition, as issued in the Banbury Cross series of fairy tales. A neat and pretty pairing of these two popular fairy tales, presented in a delicate Victorian binding
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