Banbury Cross Series. The Banbury Cross Series, prepared for children by Grace Rhys, 12 volumes (complete), London: J.M. Dent, 1894-95, illustrations by R. Anning Bell, R. Heighway, V. & E. Holden, H. Isabel Adams, Charles Robinson H. Granville Fell, Alice M. Mitchell, Sidney H. Heath and others, light toning to decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, cloth ties, some fading to extremities, slight bowing to covers, contained in original cloth box, gilt illustration to hinged lid (light soiling and a few marks), small 8vo (Qty: 12) A charming set of illustrated fairy tales, rarely found complete in the original box, comprising Jack the Giant-Killer and Beauty and the Beast, The History of Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper, The Sleeping Beauty and Dick Whittington and his Cat (2nd edition, November 1895), Little Red Riding Hood & the History of Tom Thumb, The House that Jack Built & Other Nursery Rhymes, Blue Beard and Puss in Boots, Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp, Banbury Cross & Other Nursery Rhymes, Fireside Stories, The Fairy Gifts and Tom Hickathrift, Aesop's Fables, The History of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
Banbury Cross Series. The Banbury Cross Series, prepared for children by Grace Rhys, 12 volumes (complete), London: J.M. Dent, 1894-95, illustrations by R. Anning Bell, R. Heighway, V. & E. Holden, H. Isabel Adams, Charles Robinson H. Granville Fell, Alice M. Mitchell, Sidney H. Heath and others, light toning to decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, original green cloth gilt, cloth ties, some fading to extremities, slight bowing to covers, contained in original cloth box, gilt illustration to hinged lid (light soiling and a few marks), small 8vo (Qty: 12) A charming set of illustrated fairy tales, rarely found complete in the original box, comprising Jack the Giant-Killer and Beauty and the Beast, The History of Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper, The Sleeping Beauty and Dick Whittington and his Cat (2nd edition, November 1895), Little Red Riding Hood & the History of Tom Thumb, The House that Jack Built & Other Nursery Rhymes, Blue Beard and Puss in Boots, Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp, Banbury Cross & Other Nursery Rhymes, Fireside Stories, The Fairy Gifts and Tom Hickathrift, Aesop's Fables, The History of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
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