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c1880 Andersen's Fairy Tales : Beautiful Victorian Antique Illustrated Copy

c1880 Andersen's Fairy Tales : Beautiful Victorian Antique Illustrated Copy

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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

A New Translation by Mrs H. B. Paull

Published by Frederick Warne, London, undated, c1880. Hardback, 8vo, decorative cloth over bevel-edged boards, patterned endpapers, 383 pages. illustrated with a colour frontispiece, 2 further colour plates plus b&w plates, as well as b&w illustrations within text.

Some of the fairy tales included in this volume are: The Little Mermaid - The Elf of the Rose - A Great Sorrow - The Tinder-Box - The Ice Maiden - The Nightingale - The Philosopher's Stone - Anne Lisbeth - The Elfin Hill - The Bronze Boar - The Old Grave-Stone - Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind . . etc

CONDITION
A very good clean copy. The cloth binding is very good and the gilt remains bright and clear. Inner and outer hinges secure with no cracking. Light, neat inscription to front endpaper. ALl contents present and pages are in lovely clean condition throughout. Overall a lovely antique copy.

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