ROBIN HOOD

Item
9/24
Valentine, heart shaped, gold background, forget me not floral border, artist Brundage, cupids

THE GOLDEN TREASURY LIBRARY

Set Comment

Undated, but approx 1920's-1930's. Red, green or blue cloth covers with pictorial pastedown illustration to front board, and gilt titles to spine. Some titles also come with cheaper linen type cloth cover with no picture. Catalogue to rear pages. Colour plate to frontispiece, plus five full page illustrations in text with several black and white drawings throughout. come with and without THE GOLDEN TREASURY LIBRARY on spine, originally issued with an ARTISTIC WRAPPER IN FULL COLOUR originally eight titles but expanded to twenty one, more titles listed but all seem legitimate, some come with Tuck advertising to back pages

Set Covers

Title

ROBIN HOOD

Item Comment

on title page ROBIN HOOD AND HIS LIFE IN THE MERRY GREENWOOD, illustrations ROBIN HOOD AT THE MAY-DAY REVELS (cover), THE FIGHT BETWEEN ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN, "WE ALL STAND BY SIR GUY!", BACK TO BACK STOOD THE DAUNTLESS TWO, ROBIN HOOD MEETS THE BISHOP OF HEREFORD, ROBIN HOOD RESCUES LITTLE JOHN, "THE KING! THE KING!" 256 pages

Type

Hardcover Book

Artist

HOWARD DAVIE

Author

ROSE YEATMAN WOOLF

Size

5 x 7.5 in.