Works of fancy and imagination /
MacDonald, George,1824-1905.
MacDonald, George,1824-1905,former owner.StEdNL
London : Alexander Strahan, 25 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden,
1884.
With a half-title.
Vol. 1. Within and without; A hidden life -- Vol. 2. Poems; The Gospel women; A book of sonnets; Organ songs -- Vol. 3. Violin songs; Songs for the days and nights; A book of dreams; Roadside poems; Poems for children -- Vol. 4. Parables; Ballads; Scotch songs and ballads -- Vol. 5. Phantastes: a faerie romance -- Vol. 6. Phantastes: a faerie romance [cont] -- Vol. 7. The portent -- Vol. 8. The light princess; The giant's heart; The shadows -- Vol. 9. Cross purposes; The golden key; The carasoyn; Little daylight -- Vol. 10. The cruel painter; The castle: a parable; The wow o' rivven; The broken swords; The gray wolf; Uncle Cornelius his story.
With a portion of an autograph manuscript note signed by MacDonald: "will one day make my chldren blessed indeed. Yours very truly, George MacDonald.".
Original publisher's red cloth, two single fillet borders in black, smooth spines lettered in gilt with Strahan's anchor device in black at tail, decorative printed endpapers, all edges gilt. The volumes are housed in the publisher's clamshell box of red cloth which features a decoratively stamped and lettered flap in gilt and black and a binders ticket (Bound by Burn & Co.) affixed to inside top panel.
England London.