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Illustrated with 48 mounted color plates; plus 48 text plates printed in colors, all mounted on heavy gray paper. 30.5x23.4 cm (12x9"), original quarter vellum and printed olive boards, spine elaborately gilt, original dust jacket. First Edition.

William Timlin's marvelous, elaborately produced fantasy, in the rare original dust jacket. The author/ illustrator, William Timlin (1893-1943) was born in Northumberland and "educated in England but emigrated to South Africa before 1915 and studied art there.. he practiced as an architect. He wrote stories, composed music, illustrated periodicals, produced watercolour fantasies, painted in oil and produced etchings.. It has been asserted that the illustrations in this book put him in the top ten of fantasy illustrators with Rackham, Dulac, Goble and Nielsen" – see Horne, “Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators.” Timlin died in Kimberley, South Africa, before his second great work “The Building of a Fairy City” was completed.