Gilbert Pasquier (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback copy in burgundy cloth boards with gold gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine, blind stamp design to rear board, no dustjacket as issued. 378pp. Gold gilt page edge. B/w frontispiece with original tissue guard, b/w illustrations. Not library copy, no inscriptions, some foxing throughout. (47/5).

Half-Calf. Condition: Good. L. Frolich, Pasquier, F. Gilbert & Others (illustrator). 1st Edition. 2 volumes boud as 1. 1st volume "Christmas" has VI pp + 378 pages & 35 woodcut illustrations and plates the May-Day volume has Iv pp + 380 pages & 32 illustrations, contents are clean and good + or better, the half calf leather binding is discoloured and worn in appearance, but all firm, the plain cloth boards are handled, endpapers show boards at gutter. Octavo size. *NOTE* These 2 volumes have an article and a 1st printing story by Lewis Carroll, one on "Croquet for 4's "Castle Croquet" and is a 1st printing as is "Bruno's Revenge" in volume 2, this was expanded into the book "Sylvie and Bruno" of 1889 and is a lovely fairy-story. Other 1st edition tales are by Hans Christian Andersen, (lots of fairy and fairy-land stories by him and others) Agnes Strickland, Caroline Peachey (Sometime translator of Hans Andersen), nature articles by the Rev J. G. Wood (Of whom I was once told by a member of the "World About Us" BBC team his description of the diving bell spider was spot on with his descriptions and they had spent 6 months filming in soggy wet marshes getting the same information over 100 years later). An article on the Round Chess-board of Tamerlane the Great and how to play, etc, etc. "(2 works in 1).