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BUSHBY, MRS. ANNE; ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN Danes Sketched by Themselves, TheStories by Hans Christian Andersen and Others [BUSHBY, Mrs. Anne, editor and translator]. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors. Translated by Mrs. Bushby. In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1864. First English edition of this collection of Danish tales and verse, selected and translated by Mrs. Bushby. Three octavo volumes (7 7/8 x 4 15/16 inches; 200 x 125 mm.). [2, publisher’s advertisements], [6], 312; [4], 303, [1, blank]; [4], 303, [1, blank] pp. Original terra cotta pebble-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spines ruled, decoratively stamped, and lettered in gilt. Original cream-colored endpapers. Some very faint marks on the front covers, where there must once have been library labels, the absolute minimum of rubbing to corners, some minor foxing to top edge. A few leaves poorly opened. Faint ink rule in the lower blank margin of pp. 88, 89, and 92 in Volume II. Otherwise a very fine copy. Includes stories and poems by Hans Christian Andersen ('Morten Lange. A Christmas Story' and 'The Man from Paradise. A Comic Tale'); Carl Bernhard ('Cousin Carl,' 'Aunt Francisca,' 'Damon and Pythas,' and 'The Bankrupt'); Bernard Severin Ingemann ('The Doomed House,' 'The Secret Witness,' 'All Souls’ Day,' 'The Aged Rabbi. A Jewish Tale,' and 'The Death Ship'); Carit Etlar ('Too Old,' 'The Shipwrecked Mariner’s Treasure,' and 'Twice Sacrificed'); H.P. Holst ('Lisette’s Castles in the Air'), Adam Oehlenschlager ('Death and His Victims'), and others. 'Most of the following stories have appeared, from time to time, in the ‘New Monthly Magazine,’ and a few in other periodicals. They are now gathered together, and it is hoped that they may convey a favourable impression of the lighter literature of Denmark,"a country rich in genius, science, and art' (Prefatory note). Not in Sadleir or Wolff.
Offered for US$ 2250.00 by: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB) - Book number: 00298