Andersen's Fairy Tales

Andersen's Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen

Translated by Mrs. E.V. Lucas & Mrs. H.B. Paull
Illustrated by Arthur Szyk

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers

1945

[Two copies of this book have been donated to us]:
The covers are made of green calico-texture cloth with a paper onlay on the front cover surrounded by five gilt stamped lines. On the spine is the name of the book and the illustrator within a gilt frame surrounding an area of green paint. The back is plain.
The endpapers are yellow with overlapping illustrations of different characters in bright colors. The back endpaper and some of the plates were double-printed giving them a hazy, moving texture, but the front endpaper and the rest of the plates were printed correctly.
The top edge of the textblock has been painted green, but the foredge and bottom are plain. The textblock is printed on wood pulp paper.
The line illustrations included throughout the text are either a full-page or a half-page illustration and look most like wood engravings. The color illustrations are printed on thicker, whiter paper and are plates as relief lithographs.
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Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author of fairy tales for children and adults. Some of his stories are very well-known and beloved, such as "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling." However, some are violent and gruesome such as "The Red Shoes" or "The Little Match Girl." What is less-known is that he also wrote plays and novels.
Andersen lived from 1805-1875.

Literature / Children's Literature

SPECIAL PZ8 .A54 A53 1945

Hardcover books, 8.5 x 5.875 inches

English

This book can be seen in the photograph, Display Case 7.

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