Torgny Schunnesson Rare Books

Andersen, Hans Christian and Sherman, J. F. illustr

Andersen, Hans Christian and Sherman, J. F. illustr. ; Andersen's Fairy Tales. Illustrated in Colour and Black and White by J. F. Sherman. John F. Shaw & Co. Ltd. , London, no date. (1928.) First edition.
Hardbound 4o in publisher's cloth-backed, pictorial, paperbinding. Brown cloth-spine lettered and illustrated in black. Front board with a coloured illustration from "The garden of Paradise" repeted in the book. Slight wear to head of spine and to edge of front board board. Mildly soiled. Slightly loose in front, inner, hinge. Title-page mildly foxed, else a clean copy. 8 coloured full-page illustrations on glossy paper including the frontispiece The text pörinted on thick paper. Nuermous illstrations in black and white. Not paginated, but 206 p.