Swedish Fairy Tales [Svenska sagor]
Berg, F. [Illustrated by Elsa Beskow 1874-1953] Translated by Tyra Engdahl and Jessie Rew
(Book #ID 56978)
Published London and Newcastle-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd., 1904. 1904.
Re-backed hard back binding retaining the publisher's original illustrated scarlet cloth covers, oxidised gilt title lettering and vignette of a boy and an elf to the spine, gilt and black line illustration of a King on horse back with a castle in the distance to the upper panel. Quarto. 9½'' x 7''. Contains [xii] 259 [iv] printed pages of text with 107 monochrome illustrations throughout. A small piece of cloth re-laid to the spine when the book was re-sewn and re-cased, sadly page 47-48 is missing, pages 45, 49, 99-102 have chips to the page margins and do not affect the text or illustrations, a little foxing to the end papers. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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