Edited by Dora Owen.
The Book of Fairy Poetry Edited by Dora Owen.
Longmans, 1920.
First edition. 4to. Grey cloth with blue lettering and vignettes to the upper cover and spine. Top edge blue. Pictorial endpapers with a wonderful peacock and a childlike fairy design. Sixteen tipped-in colour plates under tissue guards and numerous black and white line drawings throughout the text. A very good copy, the upper cover a little rubbed, with some light scattered foxing in places.
The last gift book to be illustrated by Goble, originally published at one guinea. This is an anthology of fairy verse. It includes a wonderful selection of fairy rhymes, songs and fairy lore. Old favourites like Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" are included, as are poems by Florence Harrison, Andrew Lang, William Alllingham, Keats, and Walter de la Mare. This book also has the wonderful fairy scenes from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Of significant interest to fans of J.R.R. Tolkien is the inclusion of his poem "Goblin Feet", which has a wonderful colour plate to accompany it, and marks the first time that a piece of writing by Tolkien was illustrated.
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