Description
The first edition of Peeps into Fairyland: A Panorama Picture Book of Fairy Stories, with an introduction by Frederick Weatherly.
Oblong quarto, [28pp]. Illustrated paper boards, green cloth spine. Floral endpapers, with small bookseller’s label on front pastedown. Complete with six chromolithographed pop-up illustrations, the “framed scene” variety, each with two cloth strap opening mechanisms. Bound with both green and red cloth spines, no priority established. Notable wear to both illustrated boards, bumped corners, light soiling along edges. Generally clean within text block, a few thumbprints along fore-edge. Stable binding, an attractive Victorian Era pop-up book, scarce in any condition.
This collection of six fairy tales includes: Jack and the Beanstalk, The Babes in the Wood, Fly-away Flock, The Fairy Fir-cones, Naughty Noel, and Peeps into Fairyland. This work by F.E. Weatherly was a precursor to his more famous narratives in the Beatrix Potter series.
