4to. Title printed in brown and black, 12 color-printed plates by Rackham tipped to mounts, 59 illustrations. (A few tiny light spots.) Original vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut and unopened (a touch of spotting and soiling); original board slipcase. 

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 130 of 525 copies, SIGNED BY RACKHAM. Rackham's illustrations adorn Andersen's 24 fairy tales, and were based on the illustrator's travel to Denmark: "I should like to add that I have made no attempt in my illustrations to look through Danish eyes. But I think that my visit to Denmark... did give me just that nearer view of the author's country that I needed--a view that helped me to realize again the sensation I felt as a child when I first read Andersen" ("Note by the Illustrator," pp.7-8). Latimore & Haskell, p. 68; Riall p. 177.