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Andersen Hans Christian

Danish Fairy Tales and Legends. With a Memoir of the Author [by Caroline Peachey] and with Sixteen Illustrations by W. H. Robinson. ANDERSEN ILLUSTRATED BY HEATH ROBINSON

Sands & Co., 1905

372.60 €

Island Books

(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1905
Author
Andersen Hans Christian
Publishers
Sands & Co.
Keyword
illustrated books, heath robinson, hans christian andersen, fairy tales, eventyr, hans christian andersen, illustrated books, danish, fairy, tales, legends
Languages
English

Descrizione

8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 15 plates, endpapers mildly spotted; original red cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, backstrip faintly chafed at head else a remarkably bright, crisp copy. With contemporary prize bookplate and trade ticket of Combridges of Hove on front paste-down. The first English edition of Andersen's 'Eventyr' was published by Pickering as 'Danish Fairy Tales and Legends' in 1846. The fourteen tales contained therein were translated by Mrs. Howitt. In 1852 the scarce second edition appeared, containing forty-five tales and at the time the sole complete collection in English. The translations were made from the original Danish and not from any of the later German versions. Enhanced by Heath Robinson's inimitable illustrations, this edition comprises a verbatim reprint of the fourteen tales of the 1846 edition and the remaining thirty-one tales of the second edition of 1852. AN ELEGANT COPY OF A VERY SCARCE EDITION.
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