1928 Rare First Edition ~ Blossom A Fairy Story by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite - color illustrated.
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Author: Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul.
Title: Blossom A Fairy Story written & illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.
Publisher: London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1928. First Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 10.5 "X 8 ".
Pages: vii-94 pages.
Binding: Very good and nice illustrated hardcover binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown ) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Good to Very good content (tight, foxing on the text page but not affecting the color illustrations - as shown, gift note of a previous 1929 owner on the first endpaper).
Illustrations: Complete with the 8 wonderful full-page color illustrations and the 8 full-page black&white illustrations.
Estimate : (USD 600 - USD 800)
The book: Rare First edition of this Fairies classic by Outhwaite complete with all his beautiful illustrations.
The author & illustrator: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, also known as Ida Sherbourne Rentoul and Ida Sherbourne Outhwaite (9 June 1888 – 25 June 1960), was an Australian illustrator of children's books. Her work mostly depicted fairies. Outhwaite worked predominantly with pen and ink, and watercolor.
Outhwaite's first illustration was published by New Idea magazine in 1904 when she was just 15 years of age - it accompanied a story written by her older sister, Anne Rattray Rentoul. In the years that followed, the sisters collaborated on a number of stories. Following her marriage to Grenbry Outhwaite in 1909, she also collaborated with her husband - most notably for The Enchanted Forest (1921), The Little Fairy Sister (1923) and Fairyland (1926).