Author: Andersen, Hans Christian.

Publisher: London: Hodder & Stoughton for Boots Pure Drug Company, Nottingham.

Format: Hardcover royal octavo with grey cloth boards and red stamped decoration to cover and spine, illustrated endpapers, 221pp, 12 colour plates, 25.3 x 18.2cm.

First edition thus. Hodder & Stoughton and Boots Drug Pharmacy collaborated in the 1920s and 1930s to publish illustrated editions of classic children’s books, including this one.

Six Andersen fairy tales illustrated with twelve plates by Edmund Dulac (French/British, 1882–1953).

Fabric on spine loose and front gutter splitting. Soiling to boards including previous owner’s name faintly in ink, owner’s name in ink on pastedown, slight foxing to edges and throughout.