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PRESENTATION COPY FOR MEÏR ARON GOLDSCHMIDT. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Meer end Perler og Guld. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1849.
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PRESENTATION COPY FOR MEÏR ARON GOLDSCHMIDT.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Meer end Perler og Guld. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1849. 8vo (224 x 140 mm). Contemporary plain paper wrappers, housed in later card wrappers, some staining to wrappers.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, "Til den aandfulde Udgiver af 'Nord og Syd'. Ærbødigt. H.C. Andersen" ["To the inspired Publisher of 'North and South'. Reverently. H.C. Andersen." Danish writer and publisher Meïr Aron Goldschmidt first noted Andersen's work in an 1840 review in his journal Corsaren. While Goldschmidt gave high praise for the fairy tales and Andersen's genius, including a rhapsodic review of Liden Kirsten, many of his reviews were far from positive. However, he always dealt seriously with Andersen as an artist, and his reviews "are remarkable for the painstaking reflection and energy they bear witness to" (see "How the Reviewers Received Andersen and His Works," H.C. Andersen Centret).
Of the review for Meer end Perler og Guld, Andersen wrote to Henriette Wulff on November 27, 1849, (in translation) "On Monday there will be an article in the South and North about 'More than Pearls and Gold' – Goldschmidt told me honestly that I wouldn't like it. Now – it will be interesting, I suppose, when I forget myself." However, the review was not terrible, and it did cover ground that often dogged Andersen's theatre-work, "We must first note that it has its great difficulties to bring the capricious and daring images of the imagination onto the dramatic stage. . . But who is satisfied with having the infinity of the imagination squeezed between the wings of a theater? Such daring images as the imagination can create, these are not capable of producing, and even if they could – who would want a craftsman who could make the imagination's ideas real?" Nielsen 553.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, "Til den aandfulde Udgiver af 'Nord og Syd'. Ærbødigt. H.C. Andersen" ["To the inspired Publisher of 'North and South'. Reverently. H.C. Andersen." Danish writer and publisher Meïr Aron Goldschmidt first noted Andersen's work in an 1840 review in his journal Corsaren. While Goldschmidt gave high praise for the fairy tales and Andersen's genius, including a rhapsodic review of Liden Kirsten, many of his reviews were far from positive. However, he always dealt seriously with Andersen as an artist, and his reviews "are remarkable for the painstaking reflection and energy they bear witness to" (see "How the Reviewers Received Andersen and His Works," H.C. Andersen Centret).
Of the review for Meer end Perler og Guld, Andersen wrote to Henriette Wulff on November 27, 1849, (in translation) "On Monday there will be an article in the South and North about 'More than Pearls and Gold' – Goldschmidt told me honestly that I wouldn't like it. Now – it will be interesting, I suppose, when I forget myself." However, the review was not terrible, and it did cover ground that often dogged Andersen's theatre-work, "We must first note that it has its great difficulties to bring the capricious and daring images of the imagination onto the dramatic stage. . . But who is satisfied with having the infinity of the imagination squeezed between the wings of a theater? Such daring images as the imagination can create, these are not capable of producing, and even if they could – who would want a craftsman who could make the imagination's ideas real?" Nielsen 553.