Accession number
PML 88960
Creator
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875.
Published
New York : Published by John Wiley, 18 Park Place, 1852.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
Four full-page engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, and a few historiated initials and vignettes, some signed: J.W. Orr N.Y., sc.
"Those for whom I have translated these Tales - the children of England - may not, perhaps, know that there is more than one tradition very similar to that of Holger Danske, to be found in Germany ... The most popular one is about Frederic Barbarossa ... I think I will give the German Emperor a chapter to himself.--C.B."--p. 199-200.
"Edward Henderson 1867"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
"Those for whom I have translated these Tales - the children of England - may not, perhaps, know that there is more than one tradition very similar to that of Holger Danske, to be found in Germany ... The most popular one is about Frederic Barbarossa ... I think I will give the German Emperor a chapter to himself.--C.B."--p. 199-200.
"Edward Henderson 1867"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
Description
[4], 206 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 16 x 13 cm
Provenance
Edward Henderson, inscription ; from the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's 1/4 black leather with brown diaper-grain pictorial cloth boards, blocked in gold, with yellow end-papers.
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