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Hardcover, published by Elkin Matthews, Cork Street , London. 1919
Illustrated with ( detailed and excellent) b&w plates by S.M Sime, a regular contributor of artwork to Dunsany's books.
Lacks the original dustjacket, tilles in dark blue to the grey front boards, and to the spine. Dustiness andthumbprints to the edges of the boards( externally) Previous owner's name to the inside endpage. First published 1912, this reprint 1919.
An attractive reprint edition.
The book collects fourteen fantasy short stories by the author.
Lord Dunsany employed the talents of Sidney Sime to illustrate his fantasy short story collections, but The Book of Wonder is unique in that Sime drew the illustrations first, and Lord Dunsany wrote the tales to incorporate them:
'I found Mr Sime one day, in his strange house at Worplesdon, complaining that editors did not offer him very suitable subjects for illustration; so I said: "Why not do any pictures you like, and I will write stories explaining them, which may add a little to their mystery?"'
Of the 14 tales, only the last two ("Chu-Bu and Sheemish" and "The Wonderful Window") were not derived from a Sime drawing.
