Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
Hardly less famous were the three books which next.followed in order Of issue The Peacock at Home, The Elephant's Ball, and The Lion's Masquerade. Their original size was 5 by 4 inches, and they were issued in a simple printed paper wrapper. It is Of these first four books that the reprint is here given, and in order to present both pictures and text with greater effect this reprint has been made upon considerably larger paper; the text and illustrations are fac-simile reproductions of originals from the celebrated Flax man collection recently dispersed at a sale by Messrs Christie, Manson, Woods, when Mr Tuer, to whom I am indebted for their loan, became their fortunate possessor. The Butter ?y's Ball is not a reproduction Of the first edition, which, as will be shown later on, would be considered by those who are familiar with the poem as incomplete. Moreover, the illustrations in the edition here presented are Obviously by the same hand as that which embellished the other three books, and it was felt that for these reasons it would possess a greater interest.
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