Pear Tree Press Janie Legge (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, hand-printed at the Pear Tree Press by James Guthrie. Slim 8vo. 17pp. Grey paper-covered boards with a decorated paper title label. John Guthrie provides a title page decoration, a frontispiece and eight header pieces and drawings in the text. Free endpapers lightly browned and spotted, and with a small area of damp staining to the base of the upper board. One gathering just a little tender. A very crisp copy of a handsome production, housed in the original decorated dust wrapper, a little marked, blemished, chafed and chipped with several small areas of edge loss. A series of delightful legends including 'The Legend of the Red Rose', 'An Anemone Legend', 'Legend of the Snowdrop', 'Legend of the Corn Poppies', 'How the Buttercups Came', 'Legends of the Forget-Me-Not', 'The Legend of the Saint-Foin', 'How the Robin Got its Red Breast', 'The Seamless Mantle', 'The Legend of St. Kennach', and 'The Old Black Horse' ("It was Christmas Eve in the quaint old village of Dullington, the shops were gay as gay could be, full of busy little people, and big people too, hurrying to and fro, choosing presents and big fat surprise packets, and all the other good things one has at Christmas").