Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Danish Fairy Legends and Tales. Half-title. Small 8vo, original boards rebacked in modern calf gilt, rubbing to extremities; text clean. London: William Pickering, 1846

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first edition, scarce in original boards. With advertisements at front (1 page) and back (2 pages). One of the earliest translations of Andersen's Fairy Tales into English, published the same year as the first English translation, containing several tales appearing in English for the first time.