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Publishers’ Binding Thursday

This Publishers’ Binding Thursday I’m happy to share A New Book of the Fairies by British writer and suffragette Beatrice Harraden (1864-1936). Harraden was a founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union, and a leading member of the Women Writers’ Suffrage League. Published in 1897 by Griffith, Farran, Browne & Co. in London, the book features 44 illustrations by British designer Edith Lupton, who worked for Doulton & Co. (now Royal Doulton) designing ceramics from 1875-1890. 

The cover features a lovely gold design on a dark blue book cloth. A child with a sunflower around its head collects flowers in their apron in a field while three cherubic fairies with flowers for hats play among the stems above. All of the edges of the pages are gilded. 

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A NEW BOOK OF THE FAIRIES by Beatrice Harraden. (London: Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Limited, 1897) Illustrated by Edith Lupton.

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