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hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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Macmillan and Co., 1874. Hardcover. Good. . Scarce. First ed. Fading to spine, minor rubbing at edges. General shelf/age wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts,, 1857. First edition of this collection of European fairy tales, which includes the first appearance in book form of Edward Burne-Jones's illustrations. The book was put together by the Oxford educator Archibald MacLaren, at whose gymnasium in North Oxford Burne-Jones and William Morris used, as students, to practice swordplay and boxing. Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles gilt to spine, spine and sides decorated in gilt and blind, light brown coated endpapers. Illustrated frontispiece and extra illustrated title, and an illustrated vignette tailpiece, all by Edward Burne-Jones though unsigned. Four pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. Cloth generally somewhat worn and mottled, though sound and internally clean, better than usually encountered and overall a good copy.

London: Longmans, Brown [et al.], 1857. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 283, [1], 4 (ads); engraved frontispiece and title page, wood-engraved tailpiece, all by Edward Burne-Jones; a little wear and cracking at spine ends, but generally a good, sound copy or better in original green cloth, pictorial gilt-decorated spine, spine a little sunned. Burne-Jones's first book appearance.

London: Longman, Brown et al.. 8 vo. xv+283+4 (catalogue) pages.Half red leather (raised bands and gilt floral designs) and marbled boards. Small chip at head of spine, slight leather wear, endpapers browned (one with a small chip and one with a small edge tear), small margin tear on the frontispiece not affecting the plate, about Very Good Minus. Edward Burne-Jones first book appearance with an engraved titlepage, frontispiece, and tailpiece by him. Scarce. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1857.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts,, 1857. An early arts and crafts collaborative piece First edition, in an attractive custom binding in notably bright condition. This work features Edward Burne-Jones's first book illustrations, done while still at Oxford and published anonymously at his own request. This copy appears to have been bound for the liberal politician and medieval scholar Allan Heywood Bright (1862-1941) with his and his brother's bookplates to the front endpapers. The compiler of this work, Archibald MacLaren, "was a versatile and interesting man with the energetic breadth of interest of his time. As well as being an expert on fairies he was an authority on physical education" including fencing, and had written several works on the subject (MacCarthy, p. 39). It was in this role in which he met Burne-Jones, who had been "recommended to take fencing lessons in the hope of improving his still shaky state of health" (ibid., p. 39). Burne-Jones attended his lessons with… Read More