FAIRY TALES

by Hans Christian Andersen, E. V. Boyle, Augusta Plesner

$500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

New York: Scribner & Welford, circa 1875 . Striking Gilded-Age edition of Andersen's fairy tales, featuring full-page chromolithographs executed by Emrik & Binger. Very good plus. Item #1652 Early if not 1st US edition, with 10 majestic chromolithographed plates. This edition omits the Fellow Travellers tale and thus has 2 fewer plates than the 1st Sampson & Low edition. However the remaining 10 plates compare

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