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FAIRY TALES, PRESENTATION COPY FOR PETER KOCH, IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Eventyr, Fortalte For Børn. Ny Samling. Tredie Hefte. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1842 [1841].
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FAIRY TALES, PRESENTATION COPY FOR PETER KOCH, IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Eventyr, Fortalte For Børn. Ny Samling. Tredie Hefte. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1842 [1841].
8vo (135 x 95 mm). Half-title, title, contents, as well as general half-title, title, dedication and contents at the rear. Publisher's printed wrappers, urn ornaments blocked to covers, printed spine, largely perished, text separated at p 16, minor soil, repair to title page.
Provenance: Peter Frederick Koch (1832-1907, second son of Ida Wulf and Jørgen Hansen Koch, close friends of Andersen INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR).
EXCEEDINGLY RARE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, A PRESENTATION COPY OF THE THIRD PAMPHLET OF ANDERSEN'S SECOND SERIES OF FAIRY TALES, inscribed by Andersen to Peter Koch. Complete with wrappers, half-title, title, contents, as well as general half-title, title, dedication and contents at the rear, to be used when bound into book form, ALL AS ISSUED. and "During Andersen's lifetime 162 of his Fairy Tales were published, but the scarcest and most difficult to obtain are these six little pamphlets. We do not know exactly how many, or how few, copies were printed, but we do know that no copy with all the title pages and tables of contents has ever been offered for sale" (Hersholt p 26). Issued first separately between 1837-1842, and the separate pamphlets bound up in book form with a new volume title (still present here), these early fairy tale in the publisher's wrappers are among the greatest rarities in Danish literature.
Peter Koch was born in 1832 to Andersen's close friends Ida Wulf and Jørgen Hansen Koch. Wulf's father, Peter Frederik Wulff, was a pre-eminent Shakespeare translator, and a mentor to the young Andersen beginning in 1822. Andersen had an open dinner invitation to the family's home for every Friday night and remained close friends with the family throughout their lives, including Peter Koch. Ida Wulf's sister Henriette, known as "Jette," was one of Andersen's closest correspondents, a muse, and is thought to have inspired "Thumbelina."
Any separate issue of the first printing of Andersen's first two series of fairy tales is extraordinarily rare. This third pamphlet from the second series of Andersen's fairy tales includes the first ever appearances of Andersen favorites "Ole Lukoie" (translated as "The Sandman" or "Willie Winkie"), "The Rose Elf," "The Swineherd," and "The Buckwheat." This copy, complete with all preliminary leaves, and the end-matter for binding of the volume, as well as Andersen's presentation inscription for one of his closest friend's children stands as one of the most desirable of all copies of the fairy tales. See PMM 299. Hersholt, pp 24-27; Nielsen 408, 409-411.
8vo (135 x 95 mm). Half-title, title, contents, as well as general half-title, title, dedication and contents at the rear. Publisher's printed wrappers, urn ornaments blocked to covers, printed spine, largely perished, text separated at p 16, minor soil, repair to title page.
Provenance: Peter Frederick Koch (1832-1907, second son of Ida Wulf and Jørgen Hansen Koch, close friends of Andersen INSCRIPTION FROM THE AUTHOR).
EXCEEDINGLY RARE IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, A PRESENTATION COPY OF THE THIRD PAMPHLET OF ANDERSEN'S SECOND SERIES OF FAIRY TALES, inscribed by Andersen to Peter Koch. Complete with wrappers, half-title, title, contents, as well as general half-title, title, dedication and contents at the rear, to be used when bound into book form, ALL AS ISSUED. and "During Andersen's lifetime 162 of his Fairy Tales were published, but the scarcest and most difficult to obtain are these six little pamphlets. We do not know exactly how many, or how few, copies were printed, but we do know that no copy with all the title pages and tables of contents has ever been offered for sale" (Hersholt p 26). Issued first separately between 1837-1842, and the separate pamphlets bound up in book form with a new volume title (still present here), these early fairy tale in the publisher's wrappers are among the greatest rarities in Danish literature.
Peter Koch was born in 1832 to Andersen's close friends Ida Wulf and Jørgen Hansen Koch. Wulf's father, Peter Frederik Wulff, was a pre-eminent Shakespeare translator, and a mentor to the young Andersen beginning in 1822. Andersen had an open dinner invitation to the family's home for every Friday night and remained close friends with the family throughout their lives, including Peter Koch. Ida Wulf's sister Henriette, known as "Jette," was one of Andersen's closest correspondents, a muse, and is thought to have inspired "Thumbelina."
Any separate issue of the first printing of Andersen's first two series of fairy tales is extraordinarily rare. This third pamphlet from the second series of Andersen's fairy tales includes the first ever appearances of Andersen favorites "Ole Lukoie" (translated as "The Sandman" or "Willie Winkie"), "The Rose Elf," "The Swineherd," and "The Buckwheat." This copy, complete with all preliminary leaves, and the end-matter for binding of the volume, as well as Andersen's presentation inscription for one of his closest friend's children stands as one of the most desirable of all copies of the fairy tales. See PMM 299. Hersholt, pp 24-27; Nielsen 408, 409-411.