1877 Scarce Book - WHISPERS FROM FAIRYLAND by E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen [Lord Brabourne].

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(Description)

Author: LORD BRABOURNE, E. H. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN.
Title: WHISPERS FROM FAIRYLAND.
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1877. Second edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 " X 5 ".
Pages : viii-345 pages + (2) catalogue.
Binding: Attractive, good to very good original full Victorian decorated pictorial cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown, light stains on the front cover - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, gift note of a previous owner on the first endpaper - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with the 8 full-page illustrations.

Estimation : (Scarce with practically no other copy available worldwide).

The book: Scarce and attractive illustrated edition of WHISPERS FROM FAIRYLAND by Lord Brabourne.

The author: Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne PC (29 April 1829 – 6 February 1893), known as E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, was a British Liberal politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department under Lord Russell in 1866 and under William Ewart Gladstone from 1868 to 1871 and was also Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Gladstone from 1871 to 1874. In 1880 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Brabourne. In a letter of 1971, J. R. R. Tolkien recalled that, as a small child, his bedtime reading was the fairy stories of Knatchbull-Hugessen. He recalled especially being read one story of an ogre who catches his dinner by disguising himself as a tree.