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FIRST EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES IN ENGLISH. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. HOWITT, MARY, translator. Wonderful Stories for Children. London: Chapman & Hall, 1846. image 1
FIRST EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES IN ENGLISH. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. HOWITT, MARY, translator. Wonderful Stories for Children. London: Chapman & Hall, 1846. image 2
FIRST EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES IN ENGLISH. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. HOWITT, MARY, translator. Wonderful Stories for Children. London: Chapman & Hall, 1846. image 3
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FIRST EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES IN ENGLISH.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. HOWITT, MARY, translator.
Wonderful Stories for Children. London: Chapman & Hall, 1846.

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FIRST EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES IN ENGLISH.

ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. HOWITT, MARY, translator. Wonderful Stories for Children. London: Chapman & Hall, 1846.
8vo. 4 hand-colored lithographed plates, including frontispiece. Publisher's cloth, decorated in blind, cover and spine lettered in gilt with gilt wreath device to cover, minor soiling to covers and page edges.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, WITH "ANDERSON" TO TITLE PAGE, of the first appearance in English of Andersen's fairy tales. With Andersen's international popularity exploding, spurred by the success of "The Ugly Duckling," the English market took notice beginning in 1846 with the publication of five collections in English translation. This was the first, translated by Dickens's friend Mary Howitt, and including Andersen's now classic tales "Ole Lukoie," "The Naughty Boy," "Tommelise" ("Thumbelina"), "The Rose-Elf," "The Garden of Paradise," "A Night in the Kitchen," "The Constant Tin Soldier," and three others. "The earliest collections in Danish are of the utmost rarity; and the English translations in 1846 and 1847 are almost as rare" (Muir, Early English Children's Books 1600-1900, p 52).

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