1893 Stories and Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen First Series / George Allen, London / Beautifully Illustrated With Many Drawings

With absolutely beautiful illustrations, here is an antique edition of Stories and Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Published in 1893 by George Allen, London in TWO volumes, of which this volume is the First Series. With numerous beautiful line drawings by Arthur Gaskin and also extra decoration and illuminated letters making this a wonderful edition.

This Volume I contains over fifty tales, including The Emperor's New Suit; The Ugly Duckling; The Little Mermaid; Thumbelina; The Princess and the Pea; The Red Shoes and The Flying trunk among them.

Inside the pages are clean and tightly bound with scattered spotting through the text. Opens onto floral endpapers, with a small inked number and a scuff to the surface at the top of the front free endpaper. There are a couple of pages with tanned offsetting shadowing where a piece of paper has been left in as a bookmark for a number of years. The top closed edge is gilt, with the other sides untrimmed.

In olive-green cloth covered boards with darker green decoration to the front and back, and with gilt titles on the spine. With a few faint marks to the boards, and one light mark half-way down the spine. Has some rubbing and rounding to the corners, with a slight bump to the top front corner. The dark green illustration has rubbed in places. There is also slight rubbing to the cloth at the spine ends.

Your antique copy of Andersen's Fairy Tales - First Series will be wrapped with care in tissue and ribbon* and will be sent well packaged. I am always happy to add a gift card with a message to the parcel.

H 21 cm x W 15 cm, 398 pages 0.62 kg. I dispatch worldwide daily from the UK. (There are just a very few countries which I am unable to ship to).

* If you would prefer for your books not to be decoratively wrapped but sent simply in the protective packaging please add a note to the order.

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