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.
Condition: Good - COMPLETE with the dust jacket. With bookstore vignette of Hilarius' Boekhandel C. de Jong Jr. Almelo. Small name (and date 1949).
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.
