CHILDREN’S BOOK. – Evelyn SHARP. Wymps and Other Fairy Tales. London and New York: John

CHILDREN’S BOOK. – Evelyn SHARP. Wymps and Other Fairy Tales. London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1897. First edition, 8vo (194 x 152mm.) 8 colour plates by Mabel Dearmer. (Toning.) Original pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to spine (some fading to lower cover). Note: scarce. Evelyn Sharp played a significant role in the British suffrage movement. She helped found the ‘United Suffragists’ and was twice imprisoned for her activism. Her autobiography ‘Unfinished Adventure’ was first published in 1933 and republished by Faber in 2009.