Blossom: A Fairy Story

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Overview:

Title: Blossom: A Fairy Story
Author: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Year: 1928
Publisher: A & C Black
Price: 10/6
Pages: 94
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: Blossom: A Fairy Story
Notes: 1st ed. Outhwaite bibliography (ouw.edu.au) states in full: Blossom : a fairy story / written and illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. A. & C. Black, London, 1928, 94p. [16] leaves of plates. 1st print.

Publ date (inferred) and price from publisher advert "New Illustrated Books For Boys & Girls" The Observer 1928-11-18 p8; this one "With 8 full-page illustrations in colour, 8 in black and white, and many smaller ones." One reproduction of an illustration and one mention in a review column found in newspapers 12-02 and 12-06.

Cover artist is Outhwaite, clearly from image provided by one dealer at ABEbooks 2017-04-27: "205mm x 270mm blue cloth backed decorative leaf patterned paper boards with black and white paste down image of two fairies (measuring 90 x 110 mm) together with titles to the front and gilt titles to the spine". Illustration differs from that used on the 1987 ed.