Author: NIELSEN, Kay; ASBJÖRNSEN, Peter Christen; MOE, Jörgen Ingebreksten
Title: East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Description: London: Hodder and Stroughton, 1914. Perhaps the Most Beautiful Children's Book Ever Published One of Five Hundred Copies Signed by Kay Nielsen NIELSEN, Kay, Illustrator. [ASBJÖRNSEN, Peter Christen, and Jörgen Ingebreksten Moe]. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1914]. Edition De Luxe. Limited to 500 copies signed by Kay Nielsen of which this is number 104. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 8 7/8 in; 285 x 225 mm.). [iv], 206 , [1 printer's imprint], [1 blank] pp. Twenty-five mounted color plates with descriptive tissue guards, numerous black and white text illustrations. Neat early ink inscription on verso of front free-endpaper. Publisher's full vellum decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and blue on front cover and in gilt on spine, top edge gilt. Pictorial end-papers in gold and black. Some light browning to the fore-edges of the text leaves. Silk ties renewed, light soiling to vellum spine otherwise a near fine copy. Housed in a fleece-lined, quarter dark blue morocco over blue cloth boards clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in compartments. Danish illustrator and designer Kay Nielsen (1886-1957) "was drawn early on to fairy tales and illustrated many volumes for Hodder & Stoughton: In Powder and Crinoline (1913), East of the Sun, West of the Moon (1914), Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (drawings completed in 1912, but first published in 1924), Hansel and Gretel (1925), and Red Magic (Jonathan Cape, 1930), a collections of fairy tales from around the world. Nielsen's designs unite strong linearity with delicate colouring.. Characterized by a sense of two-dimensional flatness, Nielsen's objects and people are highly stylized: foxglove blossoms hang in measured asymmetry; princes and princesses stand on improbably long legs; and their garments billow in gravity-defying parabolas. The power of his illustrations lies in his uncanny ability to retrieve a story's emotional effect on its reader and to recreate it visually in two dimensions" (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales). .
Keywords: ASBJÖRNSEN, Peter Christen MOE, Jörgen Ingebreksten Fairy Tales Signed Limited Edition Limited Editions
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Title: East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Description: London: Hodder and Stroughton, 1914. Perhaps the Most Beautiful Children's Book Ever Published One of Five Hundred Copies Signed by Kay Nielsen NIELSEN, Kay, Illustrator. [ASBJÖRNSEN, Peter Christen, and Jörgen Ingebreksten Moe]. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1914]. Edition De Luxe. Limited to 500 copies signed by Kay Nielsen of which this is number 104. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 8 7/8 in; 285 x 225 mm.). [iv], 206 , [1 printer's imprint], [1 blank] pp. Twenty-five mounted color plates with descriptive tissue guards, numerous black and white text illustrations. Neat early ink inscription on verso of front free-endpaper. Publisher's full vellum decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and blue on front cover and in gilt on spine, top edge gilt. Pictorial end-papers in gold and black. Some light browning to the fore-edges of the text leaves. Silk ties renewed, light soiling to vellum spine otherwise a near fine copy. Housed in a fleece-lined, quarter dark blue morocco over blue cloth boards clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in compartments. Danish illustrator and designer Kay Nielsen (1886-1957) "was drawn early on to fairy tales and illustrated many volumes for Hodder & Stoughton: In Powder and Crinoline (1913), East of the Sun, West of the Moon (1914), Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (drawings completed in 1912, but first published in 1924), Hansel and Gretel (1925), and Red Magic (Jonathan Cape, 1930), a collections of fairy tales from around the world. Nielsen's designs unite strong linearity with delicate colouring.. Characterized by a sense of two-dimensional flatness, Nielsen's objects and people are highly stylized: foxglove blossoms hang in measured asymmetry; princes and princesses stand on improbably long legs; and their garments billow in gravity-defying parabolas. The power of his illustrations lies in his uncanny ability to retrieve a story's emotional effect on its reader and to recreate it visually in two dimensions" (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales). .
Keywords: ASBJÖRNSEN, Peter Christen MOE, Jörgen Ingebreksten Fairy Tales Signed Limited Edition Limited Editions
Price: US$ 16500.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 05455
- Book number: 05455
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