Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
by Andersen, Hans Christian
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Cedar Ridge, California, United States
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About This Item
London: George Newnes, 1899. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. Stratton, Helen. Full blue cloth with gilt pictorial cover, beveled edges. Illustrated "with upwards of 400 illustrations by Helen Stratton." All edges gilt, heavy covers with beveled edges, cloth.
Lovely pictorial cover of swans in flight over water, using the blue of the cloth with gilt embossing. A stork and a frog are pictured on the wide spine.
Stratton worked her fingers off here, with fully finished illustrations numbering enough for several smaller books. Includes large sized illustrations in the text as well as full page plates. The princesses and witches and such are reminiscent of H.J. Ford's colored fairy books, but Stratton has a more inviting style that we find superior to Ford's work, as classic as it is.
Light foxing to the first few and last few pages. Spine ends and tips lightly bumped or rubbed but still an exceptionally bright copy of an very uncommon title.
Lovely pictorial cover of swans in flight over water, using the blue of the cloth with gilt embossing. A stork and a frog are pictured on the wide spine.
Stratton worked her fingers off here, with fully finished illustrations numbering enough for several smaller books. Includes large sized illustrations in the text as well as full page plates. The princesses and witches and such are reminiscent of H.J. Ford's colored fairy books, but Stratton has a more inviting style that we find superior to Ford's work, as classic as it is.
Light foxing to the first few and last few pages. Spine ends and tips lightly bumped or rubbed but still an exceptionally bright copy of an very uncommon title.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bud Plant & Hutchison Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30047
- Title
- Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
- Author
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Illustrator
- Stratton, Helen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Publisher
- George Newnes
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated;
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Bud Plant & Hutchison Books
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Cedar Ridge, California
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...