1892 Scarce Victorian Book - Fifty-Two Fairy Tales signed by Alfred Henry Miles. Illustrated.

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Author: Alfred Henry Miles (Editor).
Title: Fifty-Two Fairy Tales. Wonder Stories, Legends, Visions and Fables, From German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Oriental, Classical, Ancient and Modern Sources.
Publisher: London, Hutchison & Co.,. no date (circa 1892). First thus.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 " X 5.5 ".
Pages : 447 pages + (1) catalogue.
Binding: Attractive and good to very good original illustrated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn, soiled and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt. A rare find in any condition!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, some light foxing and staining - as shown, gift note dated 1897 signed by the author/editor on the first blank page - as shown, front endpaper inner hinge worn but still tight - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with illustrations throughout.

Estimate: (Scarce with few other copies available worldwide).

The book: Scarce Victorian edition of this book containing Wonder Stories, Legends, Visions and Fables, From German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Oriental, Classical, Ancient and Modern Sources. Signed by Alfred Henry Miles!

The author: Alfred Henry Miles (26 February 1848 - 30 October 1929) was a prolific Victorian-age author, editor, anthologist, journalist, composer and lecturer who published hundreds of works on a wide range of topics, ranging from poetry (The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, 10 vols. (London: Hutchinson, 1891)), warfare (Wars of the Olden Times, Abraham to Cromwell) to household encyclopaedias with information for every conceivable contingency (The Household Oracle : A Popular Referee on Subjects of Household Enquiry), and even advice to the lovelorn (Wooing: Stories of the Course that Never Did Run Smooth by R. E. Francillon and others. Issued as a volume in The Idle Hour Series, London: Hutchinson, [1891]). He was Guardian of the Poor for six years and a member of the London Borough of Lewisham from 1904-06.
He was editor of The Fifty-Two Library, a series of children's adventure stories published by Hutchinson & Co., London in the nineteenth century. He compiled some fifty volumes that appeared at five shillings apiece.