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[Fairy Tales] FIRST ROBINSON EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto. (30 x 24cm), pp.136. With twelve mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, complete. Silhouette drawings by Robinson within the text. Publisher's gilt-decorated parchment over boards, illustrated endpapers, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Contents clean, no inscriptions, soft fold to endpaper, discreet bookplate to first blank leaf, fragile paper-style binding is remarkably well preserved with minor bumps to corners and some inevitable yellowing of the white spine. A superior copy; very few survive in the original binding. Number 67 of 260 copies signed by the illustrator, being the only limited edition of any of his illustrated books. A high spot of children's literature. Mason [324].

The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of five stories that teach profound life lessons through fantasy narrative. Oscar Wilde uses poignant and whimsical storytelling to touch on themes of selflessness, compassion, and love.