[Original artwork:] Colour illustration for 'The Princess and Curdie' by George MacDonald.

Bookseller Notes

Major late work by the Golden Age illustrator, a happy conjunction with George MacDonald whose fantasy novel provides ideal subject matter; Folkard's commissions for Dent's 'Children's Illustrated Classics' series (such as here) produced some of his finest work. The present illustration occupies the plate facing p. 152.[With:] Macdonald (George) The Princess and Curdie. Illustrated with line drawings and 8 colour plates by Charles Folkard. J.M. Dent, 1949, FIRST EDITION THUS, pp. ix, 238, crown 8vo, original beige cloth, patterned overall with a design stamped in purple lettering to upper board and backstrip in blue, slight lean to spine, top edge purple, endpapers repeating cloth design, dustjacket with Folkard illustration, chipped at head of backstrip, very good