1925 Rare Book - Cicely Mary Barker - FLOWER FAIRIES OF THE SUMMER.

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 (Description) 

Author: Poems and Pictures by Cicely Mary Barker.
Title: FLOWER FAIRIES OF THE SUMMER.
Publisher: London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited. , no date, circa 1925.   
Size: 6 "X 5 ".
Pages: Unpaginated + Complete with the 24 plates.
Dust jacket: Near fine dust jacket in a protective removable mylar cover. The jacket is whole and retains the original publisher's price of 1/6 net. 
Binding: Near fine full cloth binding (hinges fine - as shown).
Content: Near fine content (bright, tight and clean).
Illustrations: Complete with the wonderful 24 beautiful color plates.

The book: Rare and very nice early edition with the dust jacket of this exquisite volume by Cicely Mary Barker. One of the great fairy texts, personifying every variety of flower of the Summer with a fairy child. The back of the jacket has twelve previous publications, the latest being Mrs. Bunny's Refugee.

The author: Cicely Mary Barker (June 28, 1895 - February 16, 1973) was the illustrator who created the famous Flower Fairies, in the shape of ethereal smiling children with butterfly wings. As a child she was greatly influenced by the works of the illustrator Kate Greenaway, whom she assiduously copied in her formative years. Her principal influence, however, which she duly credited, was the artwork of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Cicely was also influenced by the huge popular interest in fairies which developed from the Victorian enthusiasm for fairy stories and was epitomized by the immense popularity of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in the early part of the 20th century. Published in 1923, Flower Fairies of the Spring was well received by a post-industrial, war-weary public who were charmed by her vision of hope and innocence, which seemed to evoke a less aggressively modern world.