1922 Scarce Book - FAIRY TALES with 48 Coloured Plates By Margaret W. Tarrant.
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Author: Harry Golding (Ed), with 48 color plates by Margaret W. Tarrant.
Title: FAIRY TALES.
Publisher: London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co Limited, no date (circa 1922).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8.5 " X 6.5 ".
Pages: 403 pages.
Binding: Attractive and good full decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Good content (bright and tight, foxing and staining throughout - as shown, bookplate of a previous owner on the first endpaper -as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the 48 wonderful color plates by Margaret W. Tarrant.
The book: Scarce 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.