1900 Rare Book - Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, colour illustrationsAuthor: Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Mrs. H. B. Paull. Title: Hans Andersens Fairy Tales. Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co., circa 1900. Language: Text in English. Size: 8 x 5 inches. Pages: xi, 383 pages. Binding: Attractive and very good publishers original green decorative cloth binding, elaborately blocked in black and silver with a central pictorial panel; spine lettered in gilt (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed

The decorative green typographic borders

The chromolithographs are by Bocquin and Cicéri after drawings by J

Author: Ida Bohatta Morpurgo

works of this kind were typically composed by politically informed observers or diplomats seeking to analyse the evolving European state system

The author: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898)

including the special copperplate etchings

The book: A charming first edition of this late Victorian fairy tale that unites the literary grace of Andrew Lang with the whimsical artistry of Richard Doyle

tight and clean - as shown)

It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences

Filled with whimsical scenes

Top edge gilt (hinges fine

Weatherly introduces young readers to the lives of these little beings