first edition Stiff Wraps
1911 · Vienna
by Andersen, Hans Christian
Vienna: Munk, 1911. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. cream decorated stiff wrappers. Very good. 24 unnumbered pages. 31 x 26 cm. Twelve Jugendstil full page color designs by the brother-in-laws, Heinrich Lefler and Josef Urban, each plate surrounded by wide decorative borders of flowers, animals, crests and other motifs relating to the image -- enhanced by platinum gray and gilt colors, each border in different designs. Front cover and title page are also gilt decorated with latter a chromolithograph heightened in gold. Text in German. Repair to front cover upper corner head, interior contents clean, bookplate.
(Inventory #: 21152)
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