A great illustrator's greatest success
Stories From Hans Andersen
Hodder & Stoughton, 1911.
First edition, Deluxe issue, no. 383 of 750 copies, numbered and signed by Dulac. Large 4to. In the publisher's full white vellum binding, with vignettes and titles embossed in gilt. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Silk ties lacking. Pictorial endpapers with peacock design. Twenty eight mounted colour plates, all perfect and beautiful, the frontispiece is Dulac's famous illustration for the Princess and the Pea. The frontis has a tissue guard and all the other plates have captions on solid pages. Each text page has a decorative border in olive green. A near fine copy, mainly bright and clean, with just a small mark to upper cover.
The deluxe edition of this beautiful book, priced at £5 5/-, sold out almost immediately on publication. The book is advertised by the publishers as "from end to end a delight" and contemporary reviewers concurred. Stories include some of the most popular fairy tales of all time; The Snow Queen, The Real Princess, The Little Mermaid and The Emperor's New Clothes.
Stock ID: 46674
£2,500.00
