"Favourite Fairy Tales: Ali Baba, Jack the Giant-Killer, Tom Thumb, &c" [Gall & Inglis, c1903]

ANON. Favourite Fairy Tales. Ali Baba, Jack the Giant-Killer, Tom Thumb, &c.

London and Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, [n.d./c1903]. Edition not stated. 7.375" x 5.25", 160pp with 6 illustrated plates. Publisher’s decorative teal cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt, black, yellow, orange, and green, with pictorial scenes to front board and spine; floral and geometric black-stamped borders; pictorial spine panel featuring a seated girl beneath a tree. Front hinge cracked and rear starting. Minor rubbing to cloth. Mild soiling in text block. Good+.

Front endpaper with contemporary presentation inscription: “Presented to Frank Cooper, Ruby Sunday School, December 3rd, 1903.”