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FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Märchen und Erzählungen für Kinder. Braunschweig: Vieweg und Sohn, 1839. image 1
FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Märchen und Erzählungen für Kinder. Braunschweig: Vieweg und Sohn, 1839. image 2
FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Märchen und Erzählungen für Kinder. Braunschweig: Vieweg und Sohn, 1839. image 3
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FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875.
Märchen und Erzählungen für Kinder. Braunschweig: Vieweg und Sohn, 1839.

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FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES.

ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Märchen und Erzählungen für Kinder. Braunschweig: Vieweg und Sohn, 1839.
8vo (158 x 100 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, 2 engraved plates. Publisher's illustrated paper boards, spine perished, hinges neatly reinforced, some soiling to covers, intermittent foxing throughout.

THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES. This first collection of Andersen's fairy tales in German was translated by Major von Jenssen. According to the Hans Christan Andersen Center, only a few reviews of this edition are known to exist, which were rather negative. A second edition was published in 1840, which registered more positive reviews. The translated texts include: "Das Feuerzeug" (The Tinderbox), Der Reisegefährte", (The Travelling Companion) "Die Prinzessin auf Erbsen" (The Princess on the Pea), "Ellise", "Die Blumen der kleine Ida"(Little Ida's Flowers), "Der kleine Klaus und der grosse Klaus" (Little Claus and Big Claus), "Der böse Knabe" (The Angry Boy), "Des Kaisers neue Kleider" (The Emperor's New Clothes), "Das kleine Meerweib" (The Little Mermaid) and the poem "Zombi hat's gemacht" (The Zombie Did It).

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