1922 Rare Book - FAIRY TALES with 48 Coloured Plates By Margaret W. Tarrant

 

Author : Harry Golding (Ed), with 48 colour plates by Margaret W. Tarrant.
Title : FAIRY TALES.
Publisher : London and Melbourne : Ward, Lock and Co Ltd, no date (circa 1922).
Language : Text in English
Size : 8.5 " X 6 "
Pages : 403 pages
Binding : Very good full decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (brigh and tight, some foxing and staining, light staining on lower margin of page 270 and opposite only - as shown, gift note of a previous owner on back of first endpaper) 
Illustrations : Illustrated with 48 beautiful colour plates by Margaret W. Tarrant.

The book : Rare and attractive edition of those illustrated Fairy tales by Margaret W. Tarrant.

The illustrator : Margaret Winifred Tarrant (1888 – 29 July 1959) was an English illustrator, and children's author, specializing in depictions of fairy-like children and religious subjects. She began her career at the age of 20, and painted and published into the early 1950s. She was known for her children's books, postcards, calendars, and print reproductions.