Tales of Beedle the Bard
Posted on Nov 10, 2007 under coffee talks |In this undated photo issued Thursday Nov. 1, 2007, by London auction house Sotheby’s, showing a page from a book, a hand-written and hand-illustrated copy of ‘The Tales Of Beedle The Bard’ by JK Rowling, which will be auctioned in December 2007 to raise money for a children’s charity. There will only be seven copies of the book printed, which are handwritten and extensively illustrated by the author, bound in brown morocco embellished on upper cover by Edinburgh silversmiths Hamilton and Inches, with a starting price of 30,000 pounds (US$62,000; euro43,000). One copy of this collection of wizarding fairy stories is to be auctioned, and the other copies of the book are to be given away by the author as gifts.