Legends from Fairy Land, Holme Lee, Reginald L. Knowles and Horace J. Knowles, 1907, S T Freemantle, London

Legends from the Fairy Land Narrating the History of Prince Glee and Princess Trill, the Cruel Persecutions and Consign Punishment of Aunt Spite, The Adventures of the Great Tuflongbo & the Story of the Blackcap in the Giant's Well, published by S T Freemantle, London and JB Lippincott, Philadelphia in 1907. This book is really beautiful.

Blind stamped cover and spine. Rough cut page edges and red top edge. Olive inked, illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece and color illustrated title page. Filled with black and white, full page plates with red captions and charming in-text illustrations of fairies and other characters throughout.

Covers scuffed with some discoloration spots. All pages and plates present though frontispiece missing tissue guard. Light foxing to endpapers and page edges. Small discoloration spot to red top edge. Binding good.

7.5" by 5" 276 pages.

Includes the stories:
LITTLE IDLE AND THE CREEPING PLANT WITH MANY TENDRILS
FAIRY QUEEN'S HERALDS PROClAIM THE GRAND BALL
AT ELFIN COURT
THE GRAND BALL AT ELFIN COURT, AND WHAT HAPPENED THERE
THE SOLEMN FESTIVAL OF MIDSUMMER EVE
THERE's NO SMOKE WHERE THERE'S NO FIRE
THE AWFUL WARNING OF PICKLE, PRIG, AND SLUMPH THE REWARD OF COURAGE AND KINDNESS
THE CONSPIRACY OF SPITE AND THE MASK-SELLERS
SPITE'S JOURNEY TO ELFIN COURT
SPITE'S INTERVIEW WITH FANCY, THE COURT MORALIST
AND STORY-TELLER
HOW THE CONSPIRACY OF THE MASK-SELLERS WAS QUITE SUCCESSFUL, AND HOW PRINCESS TRILL WAS CARRIED OFF
PRINCE GLEE AND TUFLONGBO SET OUT IN PURSUIT OF PRINCESS TRITT
PRINCE GLEE AND TUFLONGBO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF GIANTS
PRINCE GLEE AND TUFLONGBO IN THE GIANTS' WELL
CATCH A GLIMPSE OF THE FACE OF MANNIKIN HOPE
HOW THE GIANTS CHANGED THEIR MIND ABOUT MAKING LARK-PIE OF PRINCESS TRILL, PRINcE GLEE, TUFLONGBO, AND THE BLACKCAP, AND WHAT THEY DID WITH THEM AFTERWARDS
THE RETURN OF PRINCE GLEE, PRINCESS TRILL, TUR-LONGBO, AND THE BlACKCAP TO ElFIN COURT
THE GREEN SHOES