Cyril W. Beaumont Mysterious Toyshop Fairy and 12 similar items

THE MYSTERIOUS TOYSHOP: A Fairy Tale by Cyril W. Beaumont. Illustrated by Wyndham Payne. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1985). First facsimile edition, first printing. "Published in 1985" to the copyright page. A beautiful quality book production printed and bound by A. Mondadori in Verona, Italy, with strikingly clear type, brightly colored, high contrast illustrations, and deckled page edges. Eye-catching, detailed, brightly colored illustrations on full page plates and in numerous vignettes throughout the text by Wyndham Payne, whose art is on permanent exhibits in British museums, and who is famous for being the first illustrator for WIND IN THE WILLOWS, and for Agatha Christie jacket art. This classic Christmas tale set in a toy shop was originally published in 1924. Fine, tight and crisp in red linen over color illustrated boards depicting toy ornaments on a Christmas tree by Wyndham Payne, with gilt embossed titles to the spine, green end-papers; lacking a dust jacket. An enchantingly delightful, illustrated children's collectible. Octavo; 32 pages. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT CHILDREN'S BOOKS THANKS! Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.