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Author: Hans Christian Andersen. Honor Charlotte Appleton, illustrator.
Title: Fairy Tales.
Publisher: New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, no date (circa 1922). First Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 12 " X 10 ".
Pages: 178 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good illustrated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, front endpaper inner hinge repaired by a previous owner - as shown, light foxing or staining - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with the beautiful 12 full-page color plates by Honor Charlotte Appleton.

Estimate: (USD 500 - USD 700)

The book: Scarce and attractive first edition of Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales wonderfully illustrated by Honor Charlotte Appleton.

The illustrator: Honor Charlotte Appleton (1879–1951) was a British illustrator of children's books, including The Children's Alice. She had a delicate watercolor style, influenced by Kate Greenaway and others. Appleton illustrated more than 150 books in the course of her career, starting first with children's stories and later moving to literary classics. They included the fairytales of Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Andersen, William Blake's Songs of Innocence and a retold version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Children's Alice.a
Her watercolours were exhibited at the Royal Academy, and there was a memorial exhibition of her work at the Hove Library in 1952.