Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Fairy Tales. Illustrated with 12 chromolithographed plates printed by Leighton Bros. after original drawings by Eleanor Vere Boyle; Chiswick Press woodcut head and tail pieces and initials. 4to, publisher's maroon pictorial cloth gilt over bevelled boards, minor scattered soiling; unobtrusive book-label on front pastedown, contemporary ownership signature on half-title, bound by Burn with their ticket. first edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1872