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Sale 2635
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Estimate$1,000 – $1,500
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1913). First and limited edition, #99/500 numbered copies, signed by Nielsen. 4to. xii, (164) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 24 color plates, all mounted and with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's deluxe full green vellum, elaborately decorated in gilt, boards very lightly rubbed, slightly bowed, and with a few light scratches; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, fore-edge lightly foxed; illustrated endpapers, foxed; very light scattered foxing to text; green silk ties likely replaced; in green cloth slip case;
A charming collection of Nielsen illustrations published early in his career.
Provenance
From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Nicholas Wedge, Ossining, New York
![[Children's & Illustrated] [Nielsen, Kay] Couch, Arthur Quiller- (editor) In Powder & Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/694dc12f-9724-4b64-ab7b-57447da59110?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)
![[Children's & Illustrated] [Nielsen, Kay] Couch, Arthur Quiller- (editor) In Powder & Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/7d504d17-3dc5-4570-9b78-cb364f0c8ff9?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)
![[Children's & Illustrated] [Nielsen, Kay] Couch, Arthur Quiller- (editor) In Powder & Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/278af673-d93c-44a0-9b04-c7bd60a3e280?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)
![[Children's & Illustrated] [Nielsen, Kay] Couch, Arthur Quiller- (editor) In Powder & Crinoline: Old Fairy Tales](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/6517a842-e125-48db-8398-d3adba7289ee?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)