Hook - Little People and their Home in Meadows, Woods, and Waters (1888)

Hook, Stella Louise. Little People and their Home in Meadows, Woods, and Waters. Illustrated by Dan Beard and Harry Beard. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888.   pp. ix, 228 + 12 p of adverts.  Half title, Frontis piece, gaurd paper, title, 24 illustrations. Bound in publisher’s green cloth binding, with silver, black and red ornamentation of crescent moon and moths and title. Title, author and publisher in black with gilt outline along spine, decorated by a silver spiderweb and spider. Binding is a little cocked and fragile, but intact. Some bumping to endband and corners. Overall GOOD to VERY GOOD condition.   “Where have the fairies gone? Long ago, you know, there were plenty of them to be found by the fortunate, hiding in the moss, or peeping out of flower-cups. “ A charming fusion of natural history and folklore, Little People and Their Homes in Meadows, Woods and Waters (1888) transforms butterflies, beetles, spiders, and moths into “fairies, elves, and brownies” inhabiting