[Rarebooks] FS: Charming Early Victorian Christmas Fairy Tale, 1847

[Michael John Thompson]

MAYHEW, The Brothers. [Henry and Augustus Mayhew].

THE GOOD GENIUS THAT TURNED EVERYTHING INTO GOLD, 
Or; The Queen Bee and the Magic Dress. A 
Christmas Fairy Tale. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank.

London: David Bogue, 86 Fleet Street 1847.

First Edition, First Printing.

Small octavo, original green cloth decorated in 
blind on front & rear panels, spine panel titled 
and decorated in gold. , yellow coated endpapers. 
194 pp + [1] pp ads at rear. Frontispiece and 7 
additional illustrations by Cruikshank. The spine 
has been re-laid and the inner front & rear 
hinges have been repaired, the rear inner hinge 
quite roughly; but otherwise this is quite a nice 
copy, showing just a bit of fraying to the cloth 
at the spine tips. Very good, overall.

¶ Charming Victorian fairy tale with many 
wonderful illustrations by Cruikshank.        $125.00

Sale price: Net $85.00 Cdn, post extra

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