STORIES FROM HANS ANDERSEN, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY EDMUND DULAC
Book Details + Condition: Hodder & Stoughton Limited (London). First Edition, 1911 [undated, but considered the first trade edition]. Scarce in this edition. Original light brown/tan decorated cloth boards with gilt elaborate decorations and titling to front and spine; Dulac personally designed this edition, its decorated endpapers, page borders, and leaves before each tipped-in plate. 250 pages. Includes 28 beautiful full-page, tipped-in color plates of illustrations by Edmund Dulac; all plates are present. Book measures 11.25" x 9". Famous and beautifully illustrated fairytale compilation includes the stories The Snow Queen, The Real Princess, The Garden of Paradise, The Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes, and more.
Firm binding; light shelf wear to boards, with a bit of darkening and soiling present (mostly to rear); chafed spine ends; light foxing to front endpapers and title page; a few pages have small tears to edges; interior is clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
