FAIRY TALES BY HANS ANDERSEN 1932 ARTHUR RACKHAM ILLS., ZAEHNSDORF FINE BINDING

[ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN]. Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1932.

FIRST TRADE EDITION ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM. Leather-bound; hardcover; quarto (25 x 18 x 3.5 cm); pp. 288. English text, with illustrations throughout by Arthur Rackham. Beautifully bound in full red morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf; all page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; half-title; decorative title-page; 12 full-page colour plates each with a captioned tissue guard; 59 black and white drawings in the text; decorative tailpieces. Provenance: Bound by Zaehnsdorf for E. Joseph (inscribed in gilt on front turn-in). Condition: NEAR FINE. A wonderful, tight and clean copy, without previous ownership markings. The frontispiece with a small archival repair to the inner margin. Exquisite.