IN PUBLISHER'S BOX
Stories From Hans Andersen
Hodder & Stoughton, 1911.
First edition with illustrations by Dulac. 4to. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Upper cover has an embossed illustration of an Art Nouveau style Snow Queen. Endpapers decorated with olive peacock design. Housed in original publisher's card box. Twenty-eight mounted colour plates protected by captioned pages with designs in olive green. Each page is decorated with pictorial borders. A near fine copy, the gilt bright with some light foxing to endpapers, in a very good box, missing two edges to the lid.
Stories include: The Snow Queen, The Nightingale, The Real Princess, The Garden of Paradise, The Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Wind's Tale.
Stock ID: 44193
£1,250.00