Accession number
PML 88998
Published
New York ; London ; Bombay ; Calcutta ; Madras : Longmans, Green and Co., Fourth Avenue & 30th Street ; 39 Paternoster Row, 1917.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
"Copyright, 1897 by Longmans, Green, & Co."--verso of t.p.
"First Edition, September, 1897, Reprinted, January, 1898; October, 1901, September, 1904; June, 1907, February, 1910; July 1913, May, 1915; May, 1917"--verso of t.p.
A collection of 41 fairy tales from the folklore of Japan, Denmark, Sweden, Sicily, Africa, and Spain. The Andersen stories are translated out of the German by Miss Alma Alleyne (Preface)
Numerous full-page illustrations and vignettes, including frontispiece and title page vignette, mostly signed HJ Ford or HJF.
Publisher's advertisement on p. ii.
"Darlings' - 11th- June-"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
"From Dear Papa and dear Mama"--inscription in pencil on fly-leaf.
"Children's Hospital for the Mary J. Drexel Home, 2100 South College Avenue, Philadelphia, PA."--blue stamp on fly-leaf.
"First Edition, September, 1897, Reprinted, January, 1898; October, 1901, September, 1904; June, 1907, February, 1910; July 1913, May, 1915; May, 1917"--verso of t.p.
A collection of 41 fairy tales from the folklore of Japan, Denmark, Sweden, Sicily, Africa, and Spain. The Andersen stories are translated out of the German by Miss Alma Alleyne (Preface)
Numerous full-page illustrations and vignettes, including frontispiece and title page vignette, mostly signed HJ Ford or HJF.
Publisher's advertisement on p. ii.
"Darlings' - 11th- June-"--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
"From Dear Papa and dear Mama"--inscription in pencil on fly-leaf.
"Children's Hospital for the Mary J. Drexel Home, 2100 South College Avenue, Philadelphia, PA."--blue stamp on fly-leaf.
Description
[2], viii, [2], 360 p. : ill. ; 19 x 13 cm
Provenance
Children's Hospital for the Mary J. Drexel Home ; from the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's pictorial pink dotted-line grain cloth, blocked in gold.
Classification
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