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Author: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (illustrator). Annie R. Rentoul.
Title: The Little Green Road to Fairyland by Annie R. Rentoul and Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.
Publisher: London, Adam and Charles Black, 1948. First Australian Edition (stated).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 10.5" X 8".
Pages: viii-94 pages.
Binding: Good original full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) in a good and rare original dust jacket (some tears, stains, and chips - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, two small tears in the margin of the second color illustration without affecting the illustration itself - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the 8 wonderful full-page color and the 8 full-page black and white illustrations.

The book: Rare First Australian Edition of this Little Green Road to Fairyland by Annie R. Rentoul and Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Complete with all his beautiful illustrations.
Dedicated " to all who love fairies and have found The Little Green Road".

The illustrator: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, also known as Ida Sherbourne Rentoul and Ida Sherbourne Outhwaite (9 June 1888 – 25 June 1960), was an Australian illustrator of children's books. Her work mostly depicted fairies. Outhwaite worked predominantly with pen and ink, and watercolor.
Outhwaite's first illustration was published by New Idea magazine in 1904 when she was just 15 years of age - it accompanied a story written by her older sister, Anne Rattray Rentoul. In the years that followed, the sisters collaborated on a number of stories. Following her marriage to Grenbry Outhwaite in 1909, she also collaborated with her husband - most notably for The Enchanted Forest (1921), The Little Fairy Sister (1923), and Fairyland (1926).