Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales
( Van DARGENT, illus. ) ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
A New Translation by Mrs. H.B. Paull. With original Illustrations [by Van Dargent].
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Published: Frederick Warne, n.d. [c.1908]
Stock code: 24149
Price: £146.00
8vo., with coloured chromolithographed frontispiece, 2 coloured chromolithographed plates, 6 full-page monochrome plates and very numerous illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; original green pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and black, bevelled boards, patterned endpapers, expertly recased, covers mildly age-faded else a very good, bright, clean copy.
Collects thirty-one of Paull's adaptations of Andersen's tales. The plates and illustrations, by a variety of artists, are mostly engraved by Van D'Argent. SCARCE.