Stories From Hans Andersen

London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911]. [First American trade edition, first printing.]. Large quarto in rustic beige cloth with stamped and gilded title and ornamentation to front board; viii, 250 pages, 2 unnumbered pages: color illustrations; 29 cm. Color fontis plate tipped in and 28 color plates also tipped in. Spine expertly re-backed in full leather, with new end papers and paste-downs; rear board re-clothed (almost goes un-noticed); neat gift inscription to preliminary leaf recto; no tissue guards aside form that for p113 laid in; plate to page 51 ('It is gold, 'it is gold, they cried') partially loose and inadvertently bound in askew (possibly an easy fix). Overall, a very good(+) copy thus, and arguablt appearing even more attractive than original binding, now with full leather gilded and ornamented spine. 5 lbs when packed. A tight clean copy. Unique thus, with leather spine. Hardcover.

Contents: The snow queen. The nightingale. The real princess. The garden of paradise. The mermaid. The emperor's new clothes. The wind's tale. Notes: The ill. are mounted. "Printed in Great Britain. Text printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty, Edinburgh. Illustrations by Henry Stone and Son, Ltd., Banbury." --Colophon. Mounted color frontispiece, with descriptive tissue guard printed in gray, and twenty-seven mounted color plates (included in pagination). Plates framed with thick pale gray line border and accompanied by guard leaves printed in pale gray with stylized pineapples on the recto and a border of snowflakes above descriptive caption on the verso. Text pages with pale gray snowflake borders at top and bottom. All leaves framed with double pale gray lines.