PROPERTY FROM A SOUTH FLORIDA COLLECTION
[ASBJORNSEN, Peter Christen (1812-1885) and MOE, Jorgen I (1813-1882)] -- NIELSEN, Kay, illustrator. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North. [London:] Hodder & Stoughton, [1914].
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[ASBJORNSEN, Peter Christen (1812-1885) and MOE, Jorgen I (1813-1882)] -- NIELSEN, Kay, illustrator. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North. [London:] Hodder & Stoughton, [1914].
4o (238 x 178 mm). Mounted colored frontispiece, illustrated title page, 24 mounted colored plates, numerous illustrations by Kay Nielsen. Contemporary blue morocco, covers with single gilt fillet, upper cover gilt-stamped with title and name of illustration, central pictorial image after the title page illustration stamped on vellum, covers in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, turn-ins gilt, doublures and end-papers printed in black and gold, edges gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for E. Joseph (some light off-setting to endpapers).
See lots 516 and 517 for other works illustrated by Kay Nielsen.
4o (238 x 178 mm). Mounted colored frontispiece, illustrated title page, 24 mounted colored plates, numerous illustrations by Kay Nielsen. Contemporary blue morocco, covers with single gilt fillet, upper cover gilt-stamped with title and name of illustration, central pictorial image after the title page illustration stamped on vellum, covers in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, turn-ins gilt, doublures and end-papers printed in black and gold, edges gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for E. Joseph (some light off-setting to endpapers).
See lots 516 and 517 for other works illustrated by Kay Nielsen.