Rothschilds
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikia very nice antique book of fairy talesillustrated throughout in colour and black and whiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storepaull with original illustrations signed by van d’argentdecorated end papers sunned and creased and some finger marks to contents pageundated but circaattractive colour, peacock blue, vellum cover is decorated with an inset gold and brown illustration to front which is repeated on the spine and gold letteringminor scuffing to cover edges, gold page edgesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitepublished by frederick warne and co, london and printed by william clowes and sonssunning to tissue paper protector frontispiecesome foxing to opening blank page with name written in pencil ‘c anne cartwright’contents include, the wild swans, the little mermaid, little claus and big claus, the mother of the rothschilds, a rose from homer’s grave, the elf of the rose, ib and little christina, the tinder box, the ice maiden and many moresee photo of contents pagethis is a scarce translation from the danish by mrs hsuperb use of language and description and some unusual fairy tales i have not read beforecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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44 €