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Title: The Shoes of Fortune, and Other Tales
Author:
Hans Christian Andersen (Danish, Odense 1805–1875 Copenhagen)
Author:
Written and translated by Charles Boner (British, Weston 1815–1870 Munich)
Illustrator:
Otto Speckter (German, Hamburg 1807–1871 Hamburg)
Designer:
Vignettes and initial letters by Graf Franz von Pocci (German, Munich 1807–1876 Munich)
Engraver:
Vignettes and initial letters by Dalziel Brothers (British, active 1839–93)
Lithographer:
Frontispiece lithographed by M. & N. Hanhart, London
Publisher:
Chapman and Hall (London)
Printer:
Levey, Robson and Franklyn (London)
Published in: London
Date: 1847
Medium: Illustrations: lithographs and wood engravings
Dimensions: 7 x 4 3/4 in. (17.8 x 12.1 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1970
Object Number: 1970.565.266
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