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The red shoes / by Hans Andersen ; with coloured wood-engravings by Willi Harwerth.

Accession number
PML 143432
Creator
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875.
Published
Bristol [Gloucestershire] : Douglas Cleverdon, 1928.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Translation of: De røde sko.
Wood engraved illustrations hand colored as issued.
"10 copies on hand-made paper numbered I to X, and signed by the artist, containing an extra set of the engravings coloured by hand, a set uncoloured, and an original coloured drawing; 60 copies on hand-made paper numbered 1 to 60, and signed by the artist, containing an extra set of the engravings coloured by hand; 400 copies numbered 61 to 460"--p. [4].
"Printed by Wilh. Gerstung in the Grobe-Antiqua type of Rudolf Koch with illustrations engraved on wood by Willi Harwerth. Offenbach-am-Main MCMXXVIII"--Colophon.
Description
30 p. : ill. (wood engravings, hand col.) ; 21 cm.
Provenance
From the libraries of Thomas Balston and Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Original tan paper boards, decorated on front with a design by Harwerth.
Classification
Department