Cicely Mary Barker - Fairies of the Trees. Poems and pictures
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Cicely Mary Barker - Fairies of the Trees. Poems and pictures - London and Glasgow - Blackie & Son Limited - [1948] - Reprint - [76] pp - Hardcover with dust jacket - 11 x 14 cm.
Picture book with sweet rhymes by Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973) in the theme Forests and trees. Illustrated with drawings of the trees, leaves and elves in colour and black and white. Text in English. Hardback edition, undated reprint (= 1948). Price on dust jacket is 2/6 net.
¶ Laing p.56-57; 123. From 1923 onwards, picture books appeared with Flower Fairies in the lead role, drawn after real models; the children from the kindergarten of Cicely's sister Dorothy, always depicted with a flower, a twig or blossom of a fairy.
