My Days with the Fairies, Mrs Rodolph Stawell, Illustrated by Edmund Dulac, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910

A beautiful first, new and enlarged edition of My Days with the Fairies, illustrated by Edmund Dulac and published by Hodder and Stoughton circa 1910.

It is extremely rare with gorgeous pictorial gilt and inked cover and spine and 8 beautiful, tipped-in color plates by Dulac. Each has an embellished tissue guard featuring a fairy and caption. Plates are mounted to textured paper.

Wear to cloth of front hinge with separation at top, rubbing to corners and spine ends. Discolorations to red cloth of front and back cover though ink and gilt largely clear and bright. Small signature and 1913 date on front free endpaper. Pages are otherwise clean and complete, all plates and tissue guards present.

10 x 7.5".

Includes the tales:
THE BIRD OF SHADOWS AND THE SUN-BIRD
THE SEA-FAIRY AND THE LAND-FAIRY, AND HOW THEY QUARRELLED
THE ADVENTUROUS LIFE OF AN ACORN-FAIRY
PRINCESS ORCHID'S PARTY
WHY THE WIND CHANGED
THE CLOUD THAT HAD NO LINING
HOW TONY AND TEDDY lOOKED FOR FAIRIES.
THE FAIRIES WHO CHANGED PLACES
THE HOUR THAT MAISIE LOST
THE MAKING OF THE OPAL
THE BIG SPIDER'S DIAMONDS
THE SEA-FAIRY'S WARNING
A LITTLE GIRL IN A BOOK
THE FAIRY WHO WAS LOOKING FOR A HOME
THE BOX OF DREAMS
THE FAIRY WHO ONLY HAD ONE WING
THE LITTIE BOY FROM TOWN