Ca. 1894

Andersen’s Fairy Tales

Author’s Only Authorized German Edition

Illustrated by Max Heiland, V. Pedersen, and L. Hutschenreuter

Rare Antique Book ~ Decorative-Cloth Publisher’s Binding ~ Exquisite Illustrations and Plates ~ Elves ~ Gnomes ~ Fairies ~ Goblins ~ Giants ~ Monsters ~ Witches ~ Magic ~ Forests ~ Supernatural ~ Sorcery ~ Animals ~ Mermaids ~ Kings ~ Queens ~ Princes ~ Princesses ~ Demons ~ Magic ~ Occult ~ Enchantment

Publisher:

Leipzig: Ed. Wartig’s Verlag Ernst Hoppe, no date, circa 1894 (the color frontispiece is dated ‘94).

Features:

Measures 8.8 x 6.3 inches.

Original decorative-cloth publisher’s binding: Brown cloth with embossed gold-gilt and black stamping and a mounted color lithograph to the front.

Textblock edges lightly marbled.

Coated pale yellow endpapers.

Color lithograph frontispiece.

Five full-page tinted plates.

Many part-page illustrations and vignettes throughout.

400 pages.

Condition:

Very Good.

The covers are generally clean and bright with rubbing and light bumping to the edges and corners, minor scuffing to the spine and back, and mild darkening of the spine. The textblock is solid and square and the pages are very clean and bright. Minor bumped corner to a few pages. Small corner crease and tiny light spot to the first blank page. The front hinge-paper is split but the binding is not at all loose. Small old bookseller label to the front pastedown endpaper with offsetting to the facing page. No writing or marking.

Andersen's Märchen. Einzige vom Verfasser besorgte Original-Ausgabe. Volks-Ausgabe. Mit 2 farbigen Vollbildern und 50 neue Text-Illustrationen nach Original-Zeichnungen von Max Heiland, 5 Vollbilder in Tondruck nach Orig.-Zeichnungen v. V. Pedersen, L. Hutschenreuter und Max Heiland.