ANDERSEN | Wonderful Stories for Children, 1846

ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN

Wonderful Stories for Children... translated from the Danish by Mary Howitt. Chapman and Hall, 1846

8vo, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, FIRST ISSUE ("Anderson" on title-page), hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece and 3 other plates, original light brown cloth printed with borders and panels for title in blue, green and brown, yellow endpapers, some spotting and browning with other soiling, occasional minor tears and creases, binding worn, hinges split, school prize label on fixed upper endpaper

Usually presented in a cloth binding lettered in gilt, this may be a variant binding.

LITERATURE:

Osborne, p. 17

PROVENANCE:

Miss Janet Steele, school prize label

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