1881 Rare First Edition - The Boy's Mabinogion being the Earliest Welsh Tales of King Arthur.
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Author: Introduction by Sidney Lanier. (Illustrated by Alfred Fredericks).
Title: The Boy's Mabinogion Being the Earliest Welsh Tales of King Arthur in the Famous Red Book of Hergest. Edited for Boys. Illustrated by Alfred Fredericks.
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881. First Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 " X 6 ".
Pages: xx-361 pages + publisher's catalog.
Binding: Attractive and very good original decorated full cloth binding (hinges fine - as shown, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, small bookseller stamp on the first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the frontispiece and the beautiful 11 full-page illustrations by Alfred Fredericks.
The book: Attractive and rare First edition of The Boy's Mabinogion Being the Earliest Welsh Tales of King Arthur in the Famous Red Book of Hergest. Illustrated by Alfred Fredericks.
The illustrator: Alfred Fredericks (1853–1926) was a Nineteenth-century American illustrator. He was a member of the National Academy and was active as a landscape and figure painter in New York City. He is remembered primarily for his book and magazine illustrations, published between 1864 and 1881.