Square 8vo. Numerous illustrations in the text after Johann Baptist Zwecker. (Light toning to title-page.) Original gilt-decorated pebbled blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt, by Westleys & Co. with their binders' ticket (spine slightly leaned, very light rubbing to corners, a few tiny spots of darkening to covers). Provenance: I.J.L. (early ownership initials on title-page).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, published a year after the original Danish. After the title story, the collection includes "The Butterfly", "Psyche", and "The Snail and the Rosebush". Osborne p.16; Wolff 137. A BRIGHT COPY.