Flower fairies of spring5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A very good copy in like dust jacket, not price-clipped, a little soiled, faint splash mark at foot, couple of nicks and shallow chips with verso tape repairs. Relive the beauty and magic of Cecily Mary Barkers Flower Fairies of the Spring, now with a brand new enchanting cover. Rubbing and foxing to edges, wear to two corners, toning to contents, illustrations bright. Ink ownership signature on front pastedown. Illustrated half-title and frontispiece, 24 colour plates, all by the author. First published in the 1920s, Cicely Mary Barkers original Flower Fairies books have been loved for generations. Original grey decorated boards with pictorial onlay in colour, spine and front cover lettered in brown, blue illustrated endpapers. ![]() Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973) followed up with the remaining seasons: Flower Fairies of the Summer (1925), Autumn (1926), and the posthumous Winter (1985). This poetry collection, first published in 1923, was a popular response to the interest in fairies generated by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Coming of Fairies (1922). Barker was a devotee of the Pre-Raphaelites, particularly Edward Burne-Jones, and her work owes a debt to Beatrix Potter and Kate Greenaway " (ODNB). An attractively illustrated children's classic, being the first book of the illustrator, whose fairy titles "remain very popular and have been collected in many anthologies. ![]()
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