1921 Rare First Edition - Children’s Stories from Italian Fairy TalesAuthor: Lilia E. Romano. Illustrated by Howard Davie. Title: Childrens Stories from Italian Fairy Tales. Publisher: London, Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., [circa 1921]. First Edition. Language: Text in English. Size: 10 x 7 inches. Pages: 143 pages. Binding: Attractive and very good publishers pictorial boards with bevelled gilt edges, tan cloth spine titled in black, upper cover richly decorated with an Italian Renaissance style border surrounding a

Strachey’s goal was to respect the flavour of Malory’s language while making the text intelligible to a modern audience

Illustrations: Nicely illustrated with a color frontispiece and many in-text illustrations

Sanborn & Carter

Estimate: (Scarce with no or few other copies in this large format and with this binding variant for sale worldwide)

who was known for his audacious adventures as a pirate in the Pacific

including The Brook

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Her work aimed to make classic narratives accessible while maintaining their poetic and moral foundations

Barker's fairy illustrations are characterized by their delicate realism

signed by Charles van Sandwyk on the first blank - as shown)

elevated by a later Zaehnsdorf binding

and whimsical guide to the “Estates of Make-Believe