1885 Rare Book - Edouard Laboulaye's LAST FAIRY TALES - illustrated First Edition.

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Author : Laboulaye, Edouard; Mary L. Booth (transl.).
Title: Last Fairy Tales. Authorized Translation by Mary L. Booth.
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1885. First U.S. Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size : 8 " X 5 ".
Pages: 382 pages.
Binding: Very beautiful and very good full decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Good to Very good content (bright and tight, some staining and foxing - as shown, endpaper slightly worn). 
Illustrations: Profusely illustrated.

The book: Attractive and rare first US edition of the Last Fairy Tales by Laboulaye.

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.