A Flower fairy - Alphabet. Poems and pictures.

Pp. 22 coloured plates with descriptive text, very good. Decorated cloth, slight surface loss to fly leaves. Dust jacket, splits with some loss... Barker worked principally in watercolor with pen-and-ink, but she was equally competent in black-and-white, in oils, and in pastels. She carried a sketchbook with her for capturing interesting children. She once indicated, -I have always tried to paint instinctively in a way that comes naturally to me, without any real thought or attention to artistic theories.