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Author:

Blackie & Son, printer. printer.

Title:

Blackie's popular fairy books : [salesman's sampler] / illustrated by Helen Stratton.

Publisher:

W.M. Stitt,

Copyright Date:

1906?

Description:

1 panorama (10 pictorial boards) : illustrations (color) ; 35 cm + 1 booklet ([26] pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm)

Subject:

Fairy tales--Denmark--19th century.
Advertising--Books--20th century--Specimens.
Dummies (Bookselling)--Glasgow--Glasgow--20th century--Specimens.

Other Authors:

Stitt Publishing Company, bookseller.
Villafield Press, printer.
Stratton, Helen, illustrator.
Issued with (work) : Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. Vilde svaner. English.

Notes:

Salesman's sampler with color images of book cover designs printed on rectos with publisher's ad information printed in black and white on versos, one full-page interior image from "Wild Swans" on recto of final board. Includes complete text of "Wild Swans" laid in. "Fully illustrated with Miss Helen Stratton's charming colored pictures." "The stories have been chosen from 2 of Stratton's most popular illustrated editions ... Hans Andersen's fairy tales (1905), The Arabian nights' entertainments (1906), and Grimm's fairy tales (ca. 1905)." --Derived from vendor's description. Cover title and publication information taken from publisher's ad information on versos.

Contents:

Ali Baba - Aladdin - Sindbad the sailor - The wild swans - The ugly duckling - The tinder box - Hansel and Grettel - Cherryblossom - Roland and Maybird.

Summary:

Panorama salesman's sampler of cover designs for classic fairy tales bound accordion-style for display; printed by Glaswegian publisher Blackie & Son for W.M Stitt.

Series:

Blackie's popular fairy books

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1255400343

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)