The unclipped DJ is also Near Fine: flawless except for the mild wrinkling to the laminate that also seems to plague this book & slight darkening to extremities.

Old gift inscription written large across both front endpapers NO other writing, underlining, or highlighting. Binding tight & square white pages, no foxing or tanning. Condition is Near Fine: completely clean save for 2 small spots to first two endpapers & slight darkening along bottom edges. Oversized hardcover has off-white linen-covered boards, with gilt decoration & lettering to front & spine. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing from Abrams,1978, not the later reprint.

Unpaginated, with 185 lovely drawings & paintings by the authors, including 147 in full color. Lavishly illustrated guide to all types of fairies drawn from literature, myth, & legend, including water & tree fairies, nymphs, pixies, elves, leprechauns, dryads, & more. Yeats's 'The Song of Wandering Aengus, ' and Christina Rossetti's enchanting poem 'Goblin Market.' Here too are the stories of Oisin, The Humpback Lusmore, the Miser on the Faerie Gump and Lutey and the Mermaid ~ each traced to its origins, charmingly retold, and illustrated in the most sensitive fantasy style imaginable. Among these sources are the Ballad of Thomas the Rhymer, the great Irish poet W. Information on their favorite haunts, pastimes, and ways of life are drawn from Celtic stories, from the great oral tradition of the English language, and from writers and poets. All the faerie types are identified and pictured~water faeries, elves, pixies, leprechauns, tree faeries, dryads, and many others. Rarely have research and artistry combined to produce so beautiful a result. Going to old sources, they examined the myths and legends, sorted fact from fancy, and, finally, illuminated their findings with over two hundred extraordinary drawings and full~color paintings. ' ~Alan Lee and Brian Froud, have made a study of the history of Faerie. text includes quotes from : Arthur Conan Doyle~ Coming of the Fairies/ Geoffrey Hodgson~ Fairies at Work and Play / Dermont MacManus~ The Middle Kingdom/ Wirt Sykes~British Goblins. ' 185 Illustrations, including 147 in full color'. almost every page illustrated, mostly in full color. 2' tear along edge of spine at bottom, couple of nicks along the flap creases, minor wrinkling, not price clipped. international or priority shipping will cost extra). white & gilt illustrated ( 2 fairies playing leapfrog) pebbly textured full cloth hardbound folio.(very large book.

Brian froud art book