Stories From Hans Andersen.

ANDERSEN, Hans Christian; Illustrated by Edmund Dulac.

Item Number: 123433

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911.

First English trade edition of this timeless classic, with 28 stunning illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Quarto, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With 28 tipped-in full color plates including captioned tissue-guarded frontispiece illustrated by Edmund Dulac. With the original cloth cover decorated in gilt bound in at rear. In near fine condition.

"Dulac was one of the central illustrators of the Edwardian period, a time when fantasy illustration reached a peak of sophistication" (Clute & Grant, 300). "Dulac remained true to the medium of watercolor, and the critics were unanimous in their praise. He was recognized as an illustrator of first rank, a master of the fantastic and exotic, and 'a dreamer of extraordinary dreams'… Among the 28 color plates in [this volume] are several of the artist's most loved and celebrated illustrations: 'The Little Mermaid,' 'The Emperor's New Clothes' and 'The Princess and the Pea'" (Dalby, 82-83). This collection also includes "The Wind's Tale," "The Nightingale" and "The Snow Queen."