The Happy Prince And Other Tales. Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood

Description

~Original cream paper to boards. Red lettering and black vignette to front board; black lettering to spine. Moderate marking to front board and sunning to spine; a little rubbing to rear board. Hinges sound. 4to (17.4 x 22.7cm). Mild offset browning to endpapers. Inscription dated 1911 to inside front board, partially covered by pictorial bookplate of Una M. Shaw Stewart (likely also the source of the inscription), of the Scottish Shaw Stewart baronets. With loose 4pp. prospectus for Hans Sachs” ”Merry Tales”. Frontispiece and two further plates by Walter Crane, and 12 head- and tail-pieces by Jacomb Hood. This is the seventh impression of the first edition, published by David Nutt in 1888. Textblock in remarkably fresh condition. Wilde”s classic work, intended ”partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the child-like faculties of wonder and joy, and who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness” (Hart-Davis, Letters of Oscar Wilde, 219). ~Robust packaging. Overseas orders trackable on request.