Hans Christian ANDERSEN, David SOLDI (Trad.)
Contes d'Andersen[Andersen's Tales]
Librarie de L. Hachette et cie|Paris 1856|11.2 x 17 cm|Relié
First edition, containing 23 tales by Andersen translated by David Soldi, together with a biographical essay by Xavier Marmier.
Illustrated with 40 vignettes by Bertall, engraved by Jacques G. J. Midderich and Alphonse Minne.
Full blue cloth binding, flat spine, gilt-stamped title, faint rubbing to the joints, light scattered marks to the boards, contemporary binding.
A very rare copy of this collection of Andersen's tales, "the first translation of Andersen's tales into French directly from the Danish, which long remained the finest [...]. This translation achieved wide circulation and continues to be published to this day" (Poul Høybye, H.C. Andersen og Frankrig).
€1,500