Fairy tales / by Hans Christian Anderson ; with eighty illustrations

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, author.

Contributor:

Bean, O. Crosby (Otis Crosby), 1869-1954, associated name, bookseller.

Henry Altemus Company, publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

children's literature.

Fairy tales.

Physical Description:

5 unnumbered pages, 8-224 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Andersen's fairy tales

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Henry Altemus Company, [between 1912 and 1920]

Contents:

Preface

The swineherd

The old house

The story of a mother

The bell

The red shoes

The shirt-collar

The nightingale

The leaping match

The saucy boy

The ugly duckling

The darning needle

The emperor's new suit

The storks

The daisy

The steadfast tin soldier

The angel

Thumbelina

The flax

The real princess

The shepherdess and the sweep

The flying trunk

The little match girl

Ole Luk-Oie.

Notes:

This title in this size and with this binding was issued by Henry Altemus Company in two series: Young Folks' Quarto Series (1912-1913) and Children's Gift Series (1913-1920). See www.henryaltemus.com/series/series200.htm and www.henryaltemus.com/series/series64.htm (accessed 5 August 2026).

Text printed within wide green floriate and inhabited border.

Binding: publisher's pale cloth; left board has within red-ruled border line-drawn color illustration (of The little mermaid?) and title ("ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES") in red; spine has red horizontal rule at head and tail with title stamped in red at head and publisher's surname in red at foot.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare PZ54.A53 F35 1912 imperfect: frontispiece plate wanting. Purchased for the Penn Libraries from Patrick Richardson Graham in 2011. Embossed stamp ("BEAN'S BANGOR ME") of bookseller O. Crosby Bean (1869-1954) of Bangor, Maine, on front free endpaper.

OCLC:

1610431934