Kay Nielsen, one of the most famous children's book illustrators of all time, will delight children and adults, with this his masterpiece. The stories he illustrated were gathered by famed folklorists and inseparable friends, Peter Christen Asbj???rnsen and J???rgen Moe who were the Norwegian Brothers Grimm, travelling the length of Norway in search of folktales. Their stories are "the never-failing springs of sentiment, of sensation, of heroic example, from which primeval peoples drank their fill at will." (Fully ...
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Kay Nielsen, one of the most famous children's book illustrators of all time, will delight children and adults, with this his masterpiece. The stories he illustrated were gathered by famed folklorists and inseparable friends, Peter Christen Asbj???rnsen and J???rgen Moe who were the Norwegian Brothers Grimm, travelling the length of Norway in search of folktales. Their stories are "the never-failing springs of sentiment, of sensation, of heroic example, from which primeval peoples drank their fill at will." (Fully illustrated in black and white.)
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Publisher:
London. Hodder & Stoughton. (Engraved and Printed by Henry Stone & Son,...
Published:
1914
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16851155006
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Seller's Description:
4to, 28cm, The First edition, 206p., blue cloth with gilt lettering and design. With 25 tipped in colour plates on extra stock paper mounted under captioned tissue guards, illustrated title page and 34 line drawings and chapter heading devices, decorated black and gold pictorial endpapers, in the original dark blue cloth, gilt decorated, illustrated and spine titles, with gilt panel decorations and block titles on the upper cover designed by Nielsen, slightest rub to head, tail, spine edges and corners, very faint browning to endpapers. Occasional very slight pale foxing to margins, Plates and guards perfect, expertly restored, a fine copy (cgc) One of the most sought after books from the era of great illustrated books.
