Stories from Hans Andersen
New York & London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. First American edition. Color plates by Dulac. Cloth over boards. Quarto. viii, 250 pages.
Seven of Andersen's stories, including The Emperor's New Clothes, The Snow Queen, The Real Princess [and the Pea], and The [Little] Mermaid.
A beautiful production, illustrated with 28 exquisite color plates by Dulac, mounted on dedicated leaves, each with a captioned leaf facing. Frontispiece has a captioned tissue guard. Endpapers printed in pale green with a repeated design of a stylized peacock.
Ref. HUGHEY 27d.
Very good. Some minor extremity rubs, light soil to textblock edges. Bound in coarse tan cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board, decorative endpapers.
Item #985
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