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PRESENTATION COPY FOR DANISH ARTIST ANTON MELBY. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. En Digters Bazar. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1842.
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PRESENTATION COPY FOR DANISH ARTIST ANTON MELBY.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. En Digters Bazar. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1842.
8vo (163 x 105 mm). Half-title, 5 section titles and 5 dedication leaves. 20th-century brown crushed levant gilt, sides with wide foliate borders gilt, smooth spine gilt with bird, star and urn devices, stamp-signed "Anker Kyster 1952," morocco-tipped slipcase. Some light internal spotting.
Provenance: Anton Melbye (presentation inscription from the author).
PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY ANDERSEN TO DANISH PAINTER AND PHOTOGRAPHER ANTON MELBYE: "Kjære Melbye / I Hjertets Bazar er ikke saa slet / der hænger ogsaa Deres Portrait / H. C. Andersen." ["Dear Melbye / In the Hearts Bazaar it's not so bad. / There hangs also your Portrait / H. C. Andersen"]. Anton Melbye, a Danish painter who specialized in maritime scenes, studied with Christoffer-Wilhelm Eckersberg. He was also a photographer, and he learned how to take daguerreotypes directly from Louis Daguerre in Paris in the 1840s. The H. C. Andersen Centret records 5 letters from Melbye to Hans Christian Andersen between 1837 and 1845, and they record this presentation copy (see their bibliography, #11516). The letters from Melbye record his gifts of drawings and paintings to Andersen in 1837, 1838, and 1845. Melbye thanks Andersen for his gifts of copies of "The Nightingale" and "The Ugly Duckling" in 1844, and the letters indicate a warm friendship between the two men. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY LINKING TWO IMPORTANT DANISH ARTISTIC FIGURES.
FIRST EDITION, IN A FINE DANISH BINDING BY KYSTERS. Containing the first printings of three of Andersen's tales, which later appeared in the 1862 collected edition; "Metalsvinet" ["The Metal Pig"], "Venskabs-Pagten" ["The Bond of Friendship"], and "En Rose fra Homers Grav" ["A Rose from Homer's Grave"]. Nielsen 417.
8vo (163 x 105 mm). Half-title, 5 section titles and 5 dedication leaves. 20th-century brown crushed levant gilt, sides with wide foliate borders gilt, smooth spine gilt with bird, star and urn devices, stamp-signed "Anker Kyster 1952," morocco-tipped slipcase. Some light internal spotting.
Provenance: Anton Melbye (presentation inscription from the author).
PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY ANDERSEN TO DANISH PAINTER AND PHOTOGRAPHER ANTON MELBYE: "Kjære Melbye / I Hjertets Bazar er ikke saa slet / der hænger ogsaa Deres Portrait / H. C. Andersen." ["Dear Melbye / In the Hearts Bazaar it's not so bad. / There hangs also your Portrait / H. C. Andersen"]. Anton Melbye, a Danish painter who specialized in maritime scenes, studied with Christoffer-Wilhelm Eckersberg. He was also a photographer, and he learned how to take daguerreotypes directly from Louis Daguerre in Paris in the 1840s. The H. C. Andersen Centret records 5 letters from Melbye to Hans Christian Andersen between 1837 and 1845, and they record this presentation copy (see their bibliography, #11516). The letters from Melbye record his gifts of drawings and paintings to Andersen in 1837, 1838, and 1845. Melbye thanks Andersen for his gifts of copies of "The Nightingale" and "The Ugly Duckling" in 1844, and the letters indicate a warm friendship between the two men. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY LINKING TWO IMPORTANT DANISH ARTISTIC FIGURES.
FIRST EDITION, IN A FINE DANISH BINDING BY KYSTERS. Containing the first printings of three of Andersen's tales, which later appeared in the 1862 collected edition; "Metalsvinet" ["The Metal Pig"], "Venskabs-Pagten" ["The Bond of Friendship"], and "En Rose fra Homers Grav" ["A Rose from Homer's Grave"]. Nielsen 417.