ADVENTURES IN MAGIC LAND AND OTHER TALES

Second printing of the 1917 first edition with these illustrations. Original paper covered boards with a green spine and an illustration plate onlay to the upper board, in dustwrapper. With four colour plates and further black and white illustrations by Florence Mary Anderson. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the spine tips and corners lightly rubbed and bumped. The contents, with faint offsetting to the endpapers, a little spotting to the closed text-block edge, and occasionally to the margins, are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and toned original dustwrapper that has minor chipping to the head of the spine and a few closed tears to the edges. There is an illustration plate onlay to the front panel. Scarce in the dustwrapper.

A collection of short fairy stories written by Dorothy Black (the maiden name and pseudonym of Dorothy MacLeish), a writer and journalist who was the niece of Frederick Delius. Beautifully and delicately illustrated by Florence Mary Anderson. Anderson had studied at the Glasgow School of Art, and while her artistic style is unique and distinctive, elements of the Art Nouveau style that 'Glasgow Girls' such as Jessie M. King and Annie French became know for can be identified within her work.