Fairy Tales

Multiple artists/makers

1872

Not on view

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Title: Fairy Tales
Author: Hans Christian Andersen (Danish, Odense 1805–1875 Copenhagen)
Translator: Henry Leigh Douglas Ward (British, Chelmsford, Essex 1825–1906 London)
Translator: Augusta Plesner (British (?), active late 19th century)
Illustrator: Eleanor Vere Boyle (British, Auchlunies, Scotland 1825–1916 Brighton)
Publisher: Color plates published by Leighton Brothers (British, active 1849–85)
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle (London)
Printer: Chiswick Press (British, London) by Whittingham and Wilkins
Published in: London
Date: 1872
Medium: Illustrations: color wood engraving
Dimensions: 12 9/16 x 10 1/16 x 3/4 in. (31.9 x 25.6 x 1.9 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969
Object Number: 69.604.44
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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