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1896 Rare 1stED Book - FAIRY TALE PLAYS and How to Act Them. Beauty & the Beast, Cinderella, ...

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Author : Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell, Lady; Lancelot Speed (illustrator).
Title : Fairy Tale plays and how to act them.
Publisher : London : Longmans, Green, And Co., 1896. First Edition.
Language : Text in English.
Size : 7.5 " X 5 "
Pages : lv-366 pages
Binding : Attractive and very good, near fine, Victorian full decorated cloth binding (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing or staining, gift note of a previous owner on half title page - as shown). 
Illustrations : Profusely illustrated by Lancelot Speed .

The book : Rare and attractive first edition of this book on Fairy Tale plays and how to act them. Complete with full scripts, directions for dances, ideas for costume design - making an ogre's head!, stage directions, and sheet music for the following performances: Ali Baba, or the Forty Thieves; Rumpelstiltzkin; Red Riding Hood; Beauty and the Beast; Jack and the Beanstalk; Cinderella; Foolish Jack; The Golden Goose; The Tinder-Box; The Three Wishes; The Emperor's New Clothes; The Fisherman and His Wife; The Sleeping Beauty; Bluebeard. 

The author: Dame Florence Eveleen Eleanore Bell, DBE, JP (née Olliffe; 9 September 1851 - 16 May 1930) was a British writer and playwright.