CRUIKSHANK, George (illustrator, 1792-1878). Fairy Library [comprising: Cinderella and the Glass Slipper; Puss in Boots; Hop-O’My-Thumb and the Seven-League Boots; The History of Jack & the Bean-Stalk . London: D. Bogue, [1853-1854]. Rare complete set of Cruikshank's Fairy Library in the original wrappers. 'One of the sore points in Cruikshank's life in the 1850s was Dickens's increasingly public and strident opposition to what he saw as the excesses of temperance. When Cruikshank brought out the first in a series of beautifully illustrated fairy tale books ( Hop o' my Thumb , 1853) to which he appended texts explaining that all the violence and misery in the stories were caused by drink, Dickens protested in the leader of his weekly magazine, Household Words (1 October 1853). He objected strongly to the artist's promoting total abstinence by altering "harmless little books"' (ODNB). 4 volumes, small quarto (175 x 135mm). 24 etchings (occasional very light scattered spotting). Publisher’s printed wrappers ( Jack & the Bean-Stalk with later endpapers, Puss in Boots with worn spines and upper edge of lower cover creased and with some light dust-soiling, others with extremities lightly soiled and rubbed); contained in a late 19th-/early 20th-century red morocco case.
CRUIKSHANK, George (illustrator, 1792-1878). Fairy Library [comprising: Cinderella and the Glass Slipper; Puss in Boots; Hop-O’My-Thumb and the Seven-League Boots; The History of Jack & the Bean-Stalk . London: D. Bogue, [1853-1854]. Rare complete set of Cruikshank's Fairy Library in the original wrappers. 'One of the sore points in Cruikshank's life in the 1850s was Dickens's increasingly public and strident opposition to what he saw as the excesses of temperance. When Cruikshank brought out the first in a series of beautifully illustrated fairy tale books ( Hop o' my Thumb , 1853) to which he appended texts explaining that all the violence and misery in the stories were caused by drink, Dickens protested in the leader of his weekly magazine, Household Words (1 October 1853). He objected strongly to the artist's promoting total abstinence by altering "harmless little books"' (ODNB). 4 volumes, small quarto (175 x 135mm). 24 etchings (occasional very light scattered spotting). Publisher’s printed wrappers ( Jack & the Bean-Stalk with later endpapers, Puss in Boots with worn spines and upper edge of lower cover creased and with some light dust-soiling, others with extremities lightly soiled and rubbed); contained in a late 19th-/early 20th-century red morocco case.
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