Legends from River & Mountain by Carmen Sylva [Elisabeth of Wied; H.M. the Queen of Roumania] - 1896

London: George Allen, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 6". T. H. Robinson. The scarce first edition of this collection of fairy stories and folk tales by Elisabeth of Wied, the first Queen of Romania. A scarce first edition.The work of the inaugural Queen of Romania, Elisabeth of Wied, who was a prolific writer under the name Carmen Sylva.Illustrated with a frontispiece and forty plates and vignette illustrations by T. Heath Robinson, a prolific illustrator of the period.Collated, complete.With a former owner's inscription, dated 1899 to the front free endpaper, and a bookseller's label to the front pastedown.A charming collection of short stories in a delightful pictorial cloth binding. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with back strip lightly age toned. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Inscription to front free endpaper, and bookseller's label to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned to perimeters, otherwise clean and bright. Very Good