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Lot description
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) & Kay Nielsen (1886-1957), illus. Fairy Tales. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924. Deluxe limited edition, quarto; copy number 471 of 500 hand-numbered and signed by Nielsen in blue in ink on the limitation; illustrated with 12 mounted color plates protected by printed tissue guards, 16 full-page black-and-white illustrations, as well as numerous decorations and initials; bound in publisher's gilt-decorated full blue cloth; with the original pictorial jacket printed in black (discoloration to jacket, spine panel darkened, edge wear, small losses; light toning to a few plate mounts, significant creasing to one tissue guard, scattered pale foxing, corner creases; stains to cloth, boards slightly bowed, gilt lettering somewhat faded at spine, inked ownership inscription to front flyleaf); housed in the original blue cloth, felt-lined slipcase; 12 x 9 ½ in.