1886 Scarce Book - FAIRY TALES by Edouard Laboulaye - illustrated. FIRST EDITION.
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Author : Laboulaye, Edouard.
Title : Fairy Tales with Two Hundred and Fifty-One Illustrations.
Publisher : London : George Routledge and Sons, no date (circa 1886). First Edition.
Language : Text in English.
Size : 8.5 " X 7 ".
Pages : 357 pages.
Binding : Beautiful, attractive and very good full decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing and staining, endpaper inner hinges worn but still tight - as shown, name of a previous -1889- owner to verso of frontis illustration).
Illustrations : Profusely illustrated with 251 illustrations (frontispice by Gustave Doré, intext illustrations by various artist).
The book : Attractive and scarce First edition of the Fairy Tales by Edouard Laboulaye. A rare find in any condition!
The author: Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye (18 January 1811 – 25 May 1883) was a French jurist, poet, author and anti-slavery activist. In 1865 he originated the idea of a monument presented by the French people to the United States that resulted in the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. He got the idea thinking that this would help strengthen their relationship with the United States.