Buy this book on-line PHILIP, NEIL: : The Little People: STORIES OF FAIRIES, PIXIES AND OTHER SMALL FOLKUS.NEW YORK,N.Y. HARRY N. ABRAMS,INC.,2002. ISBN 0810905701.
US,slim Qrto HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally conceived,designed and produced in 2002 by The Albion Press Ltd.,Idbury.Oxon.UK.Complete number line 10-1 descending.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn and minus issued to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,glossy laminated colour pictorial artwork illustrated boards,with red and b/w lettering,and immaculate colour pictorial illustrated endpapers; with negligible shelf-wear bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim Qrto HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn,1-115pp [paginated] includes 8 chapters, specially commissioned b/w line illustrations by Jacqueline Mair,plus 30+ colour illustrations by assorted 19th+20thC illustrators/artists interspersed throughout the text and the book, separate notes on Fairy lore and Fairy paintings,illustration credits,a bibliography and a glossary of Fairies; plus [unpaginated] colour vignetted half-title,a double-page colour illustrated title page,a contents list/table with full-page,full-colour illustrated frntis to verso.
Describes the origins,physical characteristics, dwelling places,activities,and special powers of different types of fairy folk from around the world.Includes illustrative traditional stories from various cultures interspersed throughout the text.
Lavishly illustrated,this lively survey of the little people is packed with intriguing tales about all kinds of fairy creatures,from fairy queens,elves,and brownies,to lutins,mermaids, dwarfs and trolls.Along with these tales are sumptuous images of the fairy world by artists such as William Blake,Richard Dadd,John Anster Fitzgerald, and Richard Doyle,supplemented with newly commissioned b/w line drawings by Jacqueline Mair.
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