Andersen, Hans Christian

8vo (6 5/8 x 5 in.; 168 x 127 mm). Printer's imprint and device on the title verso and at the end, 4 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, all hand colored with tinted borders and backgrounds; a few light marginal spots, dog-eared at page 101. Publisher's slate-blue ribbed cloth, blind-stamped covers, gold-stamped title on upper cover and spine, pink endpapers, marbled edges; some soiling, spine lightly faded.

Dewhirst, bookseller of Leamington, with early ticket

Darton 240; Hürlimann 51; Osborne, page 17; Cahoon, Children's Literature 128

a few light marginal spots, dog-eared at page 101. Publisher's blue ribbed cloth, blind-stamped covers, gold-stamped title on upper cover and spine, pink endpapers; some soiling, spine lightly faded.
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First edition of the first English translation of Andersen's fairy tales. Mrs. Howitt, a popular writer for children, learned Danish to make this translation. She is also remembered as the author of "Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to the fly." Three other collections were published in England in the same year: one translated by Caroline Peachey and published by William Pickering, and two translated by Charles Boner and published by Cundall.