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Stories from Hans Andersen.
by DULAC, Edmund (illus.); ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton,, 1911. First English trade edition. The collection comprises six stories: "The Snow Queen", "The Swineherd", "The Nightingale", "The Real Princess", "The Emperor's New Clothes", and "The Mermaid". A review of the illustrated books of 1911 published in Art and Literature (December 1911) found one reviewer stating "In certain qualities of fantasy and delicate strength, and lurid, imaginative daring, Mr Rackham and Mr Pogany are... inimitable, but for sheer grace and poetry of feeling I am inclined to give the palm to Mr Edmund Dulac. I doubt if Mr Dulac has ever done better work as a book-illustrator than he has put into the series of colour-plates with which he has illustrated Hans Andersen..." The reviewer in the Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art (10 December 1911) stated simply that this was "a really beautiful book, with illustrations of exceptional merit. As pictures for children nothing could be more attractive than Mr Dulac's watercolour drawings". Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco,spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, pictorial title block to front board gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, blue and gold snowflake patterned endpapers, gilt edges. With 28 tipped in colour plates. A fine copy.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154768
- Title
- Stories from Hans Andersen.
- Author
- DULAC, Edmund (illus.); ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Hodder and Stoughton,
- Date Published
- 1911
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Morocco
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- Gilt
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