Stories & fairytales / by Hans Christian Andersen; translated by H. Oskar Sommer. Ph:D. ; with 100 pictures by Arthur J. Gaskin.
Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875)
Category
Books
Date
1893
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100935
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill. ; 28 cm. Pencil doodle on second rear free endpaper verso in v. 2. Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown in v. 1: "F / 1934" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's cream cloth; gilt stamped illustrations on boards: upper boards: figure in sailing ship; lower boards: two children kneeling; gilt lettered upper boards and spines; yellow ribbon marker in each vol. (detached).
Makers and roles
Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875), author Arthur Gaskin (1862-1928) , illustrator Heinrich Oskar Sommer (b.1861), translator