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ANDERSEN, HANS CHRIST-
IAN.
Fairy Tales.
Illustrated with 12
chromolithographed plates printed by
Leighton Bros. after original drawings by
EleanorVere Boyle; Chiswick Press wood-
cut head and tail pieces and initials. 4to,
publisher’s maroon pictorial cloth gilt over
bevelled boards, minor scattered soiling;
unobtrusive book-label on front paste-
down, contemporary ownership signature
on half-title, bound by Burn with their
ticket.
FIRST EDITION
.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low,
and Searle, 1872
[600/900]
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ARDIZZONE, EDWARD.
Little
Tim and the Brave Sea Captain.
Color illustrations by Ardizzone, printed
on one side of each leaf only as issued.
Folio, original pictorial boards, minor rub-
bing to extremities; dust jacket, tape
repairs to verso, mostly to spine panel and
top edges, scattered light soiling and tan-
ning, spine panel tips with short chips;
few insignificant smudges internally, oth-
erwise clean.
London, etc.: Oxford University Press,
1936
[600/900]
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR
’
S FIRST
BOOK FOR CHILDREN
,
“a major landmark in
the history of the English picture book”
(Whalley, p. 188-89).
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