1923 Rare First Edition - The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book Illustrated by Hilda T. Miller.
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(Description)
Author: Poems by Rose Fyleman and Pictures by Hilda T. Miller.
Title: The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book.
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1923. First edition.
Size: 10 "X 8 ".
Pages: 102 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good gilt decorated full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) in a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Good content (bright, tight, some foxing mainly on the outer edge/margins - as shown, gift note of a previous owner on the first endpaper - as shown, lower corner of frontispiece illustration slightly creased - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the 12 beautiful mounted colored fairy plates by Hilda T. Miller and some black&white in-text illustrations.
The book: Rare and Beautiful First edition of The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book with the magic illustrations by Hilda T. Miller, (1876-1939).
The author: Rose Amy Fyleman (1877–1957) was an English writer and poet, noted for her works on the fairy folk, for children. Her poem There are fairies at the bottom of our garden was set to music by English composer Liza Lehmann. Her Christmas carol Lift your hidden faces, set to a French carol tune, was included in the Anglican hymnal Songs of Praise (1931) as well as in the Hutterian Brotherhood's Songs of Light (1977).