Rhys (Grace, editor) The Banbury Cross Series, 4 vol., first edition, illustrations by R. Anning Bell and others, toned and marked, occasional light foxing, t.e.g., others uncut, a few cloth ties present, original pictorial cloth, gilt, lightly rubbed, extremities bumped, 1894-95 § Wilson (Romer, editor) Red Magic, A Collection of the World's Best Fairy Tales, first edition, 8 colour plates and illustrations by Kay Nielson, browning to preliminaries, toning, joint cracked pp.224-225, original cloth, rubbed and stained, corners and spine ends bumped, 1930 § The Ingoldsby Legends, colour plates and illustrations, bookplate to pastedown, endpapers browned, original pictorial cloth, gilt, extremities bumped and frayed, 1911; and c.45 others, mostly late Victorian fairy tales and folklore, attractive pictorial cloth, v.s. (c.50)

⁂ A delightful lot of fairy tales and Victorian children's works in decorative and pictorial cloth. The large collection represents the fairy tales and legends of many countries.