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Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. 1st edition. Hardcover. Cream paper-covered boards and grey cloth spine with gilt lettering, a little rubbed, square binding, endpapers with slight browning, pages clean bar a little occasional spotting, with 24 tipped-in colour plates by Kay Nielsen, each with captioned tissue guards, and over 15 monotone decorations throughout. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, then King Edward V11 Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University, was asked by the publisher to retell a number of old fairy stories to complement illustrations by the then-unpublished Danish artist Kay Nielsen. Nielsen's first commission is generally regarded as one of his finest works. Laid in loosely is a plate from Nielsen's book the following year, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, as well as a page and some images from a contemporary magazine about the exhibition of Nielsen's drawings at the Dowdeswell Galleries in New Bond Street in July 1912. A very good copy of this attractive book.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913 A good copy of the 1st trade edition of 'In Powder and Crinoline' with 24 tipped in colour plates and numerous designs by Kay Nielsen. Undated but 1913. This was Kay Nielsen's first published book illustration and his reputation was such that Arthur Quiller-Couch was commissioned to find and rewrite the fairy tales to the title chosen by Nielsen. His illustrations are unique and unforgettable. This copy is in the publisher's quarter cloth binding with grey card boards. The spine has gilt titles and designs and the front board has red titles and grey illustration. The binding is sound but with the usual wear: pulling to the top and bottom of the spine and edge wear to the boards with some browning and marking. The decorative endpapers are present with some light browning and there is some repair to the front endpaper joint. Contents are complete including half title; frontispiece with tissue guard; title page on thick grey paper with red lettering;… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Printed by Henry Stone and Son, Banbury, 1913. Limited Edition. Full Morocco. Very Good Plus. N.d., Folio. 31.5 by 26 cm. xii, 13-164 pp. 26 mounted color plates. Modern full blue morocco. Original pictorial endpapers. In rebinding, archival tape used at hinge. In rear, this tape is more conspicuous than ideal. Pages clean, mounted plates, bright. This copy is virtually identical to limited first edition other than there is no limitation page, no signature, no date.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1913]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.164. With 24 mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Re-bound later in the twentieth century in tan quarter cloth with grey paper over boards and green titles to plain paper labels on spine and upper. With the original endpapers, repaired to hinges. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Repairs to chipped and torn endpapers. Heavily browned to edges and margins, otherwise clean internally. Spine label toned and lightly chipped. Very good. A novel collection of Fairy Tales proposed by the illustrator Kay Nielson, who wanted to illustrate fanciful tales from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but found little obvious material from the latter period. The novelist and critic Quiller-Couch was therefore recruited to assemble this interesting mix of stories, drawn from several different traditions. Inevitably, powdered wigs and beauty spots abound in the… Read More

(London): Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Covers are lightly soiled. Twenty-four tipped-in color plates by KAY NIELSEN, with captioned tissue-guards. Top edge gilt. Head and tail pieces. A clean and crisp copy throughout with fine typography, wide margins. Top of page design carried out through the text. 164pp. Kay Nielsen (1886-1957) was a Danish artist who worked during the "golden age of illustration" early in the 20th century, along with Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Willy Pogany among others.. First Edition. Illustrated Boards, 1/4 Cloth. Light Cover Wear/No Jacket. Illus. by Kay Nielsen. Quarto.

Hodder & Stoughton. London. No date. 1913. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (11.4 x 9.1 inches). Beautifully illustrated with 24 fine tipped in colour plates, each with a printed tissue guard. The colour plates are mounted onto thick oatmeal paper within a decorative printed border. Illustrated mono title page, with red lettering. Illustrated with many fine, striking, mono illustrations throughout the text. Each page decorated with a floral design across the top of text. A very good copy in a recent fine binding of full dark blue morocco, complete with the original illustrated endpapers bound in. Spine with raised bands. Compartments double ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Floral blind tooled border on boards. Top edge gilt. Original illustrated front board bound in at the back of the book. Overall a lovely copy of this beautiful book. Among the very best of the early Twentieth century illustrated gift books.

London: Hodder & Stoughton [1913]. 4to. First Edition. xii, 13-164 pp. Light purple cloth with illustrations in green to boards with gilt lettering and decorations to spine; decorated endpapers. Slight wear and tear to spine ends. Slight split to front hinge. Yellowing to pages but otherwise internally clean. 24 tipped-in gorgeous full colour Kay Neilsen illustrations with printed guards. A lovely copy. . Very Good. Pictorial Cloth. First Edition. 1913.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Near fine.. First trade edition, second issue (bound entirely in cloth), an excellent copy, rarely found with the original box. Nielsen's style in this book flirts with the border between Art Nouveau and Art Deco, with surprising yet captivating results. Published when he was only 27, it was the Danish-born illustrator's first commission from an English publisher, leading to one of his most famous books the next year: EAST OF THE SUN, WEST OF THE MOON. A highlight of the Golden Age gift books, with the power to turn the heads of anyone interested in the era of Marie Antoinette. Quarto. 10.25'' x 8''. Original lavender pictorial cloth elaborately stamped in green and brown, gilt-stamped spine. In original pictorial box with mounted color plate. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Nielsen with 24 beautiful tipped-in color plates with pictorial tissue guards and in-text images. xii, 13-164 pages. Spine ends gently bumped, some light foxing to edges, endpapers, and… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good Plus. Kay Nielsen. Kay Nielsen's first illustrated work, 'In Powder and Crinoline - Fairy Tales Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch', published in 1913 by Hodder and Stoughton in London. Here, the limited deluxe edition, issued in full green gilt-decorated vellum, this being number 155 of 500 copies and signed by Kay Nielsen on limitation page. CONDITION: Collated complete with 26 tipped-in colour plates and captioned tissue-guards, 2 more plates than are provided in the standard trade edition. Green vellum boards a little bowed, hinges holding firmly. Decorated endpapers and some additional vignettes & decorations throughout. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Text-block structurally sound. Foxing to endpapers, a little age-toning towards page edges, but generally clean throughout. Housed in re moveable plastic sleeve. 31.8cm tall - a large & heavy volume; international orders may incur additional shipping costs.

Hodder & Stoughton, London., [1913]. First edition. Quarto. 164 pages. 26 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, textual decorations, pictorial endpapers and cover design all by Kay Nielsen. Original green pictorial vellum gilt. Top edge gilt.One of 500 numbered copies signed by the artist.Endpapers spotted. Covers bowed and lacking the ribbon ties. Fading to spine and front cover, while the rear cover seems to have undergone an attempt to strengthen the original green. Very good; the plates are fine.

[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. 318 x 229 mm. (12 1/2 x 9"). xii, 163, [1] pp. FINE GREEN MOROCCO BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with single gilt fillet border, upper cover with gilt titling; raised bands, gilt-ruled compartments, turn-ins with single gilt fillet, marbled endleaves, top edge gilt. WITH 26 COLOR PLATES BY KAY NIELSEN tipped onto gray stock with decorative frames, each with captioned and decorated tissue guards. ◆Two leaves with short closed tear to fore margin, slight browning to edges of leaves, additional trivial defects, but QUITE A FINE COPY, clean internally and in an unworn binding. This is an attractively bound copy of Quiller-Couch's third collection of fairy tales, with consistently winning illustrations by Nielsen. It appears to be a variant of the Edition De Luxe, with two more plates than the trade edition, but it is not signed by Nielsen, as the 500 copies of that edition were supposed to be. The cheeky, somewhat campy… Read More

(London): Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Very good plus.. Lavish signed limited edition of this fairy-tale collection, illustrated with an Art Deco take on 18th-century French styles. Nielsen's style in this book flirts with the border between Art Nouveau and Art Deco, with surprising yet captivating results. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Nielsen, this deluxe production contains 2 more color plates than the trade edition. Published when he was only 27, it was the Danish-born illustrator's first commission from an English publisher, leading to one of his most famous books the next year: EAST OF THE SUN, WEST OF THE MOON. A highlight of the Golden Age gift books, with the power to turn the heads of anyone interested in the era of Marie Antoinette. Folio. 12.5'' x 10.5''. Original full green vellum with extensive gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Illustrated by Nielsen with 26 magnificent color plates with pictorial lettered tissue guards and decorative borders. 164 pages. Housed in custom tan cloth… Read More

London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1913]. . Edition de Luxe. 4to. Original full green vellum, front cover and spine lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. With 26 tipped-in colour plates on grey paper. Covers very slightly bowed, minimal wear to extremities. A very good copy of this title, with the endpapers very slightly foxed as usual. Edition de Luxe, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the artist.

Banbury: Hodder & Stoughton. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. NIELSON Kay. Signed by Nielsen, in the publishers DeLuxe, gilt pictorial, green stained vellum, spine gilt. [1913]. Internally, [1] signed & numbered limitation leaf, [1], half title, frontis, illustrated title, (v-xii), [1], 14-163 pp, [1], 26 tipped in colour plates by Neilsen, all mounted within decorative borders, each with a captioned tissue guard, 9 headers & 7 footers accompanying the 7 tales, printed endpapers, small neat ink inscription to ffep, t.e.g., remainder uncut, lacks the 2 ties, boards a little rubbed at edges, minor scratch to lower board. An edition limited to 500 copies. A nice example! (covers VG+, text & plates Near Fine). (310*257 mm). Tales are: Minon-Minette; Felicia, or, The pot of pinks; The twelve dancing princesses; Rosanie, or, The inconstant prince; The man who never laughed; John and the ghosts; The czarina's violet.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. hardcover. fine. Illustrations by Kay Nielsen with 24 tipped-in color plates on heavy stock. 164pp., thick 4to, lettered tissue guards, rebound in full blue morocco, decoratively gilt spine and covers, bound by Bayton, all edges gilt. London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1913]. A beautiful copy.<br/> <br/> Inscribed presentation facing the half-title and dated 1914.<br/> <br/>

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. First Edition, no. 203 of 500 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with frontispiece and 23 mounted plates, tissue guards by Kay Nielsen. Printed by Henry Stone and Sons Ltd., Bunbury. 164pp. 4to. Full green dyed vellum, spine and upper board gilt, t.e.g. Silk ribbon ties renewed, almost fine, in cloth slipcase. First Edition, no. 203 of 500 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with frontispiece and 23 mounted plates, tissue guards by Kay Nielsen. Printed by Henry Stone and Sons Ltd., Bunbury. 164pp. 4to. Signed.

1913. Original artwork from the artist's first major success Published within In Powder and Crinoline, sub-titled "Old Fairy Tales Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch", in 1913. This fine watercolour was originally reproduced opposite page 124 and is one of the 26 colour plates. The illustration accompanies the tale of "The Man Who Never Laughed". Writing about "some of the new gift books" in the 1913 Christmas issue of The Bookman, A. St John Adcock stated "Kay Nielsen is a young artist of curiously original gifts. There are traces in his drawings for In Powder and Crinoline of the influence of Aubrey Beardsley, and there are also an imaginative daring, a fantasy, a fascinating grace and decorative loveliness that are peculiarly his own and make his art unique amongst the illustrations of this year's books". Original drawing (297 x 257 mm) on card, laid down on board, fine ink and watercolour, signed and dated ("Kay Nielsen 13") lower left, mounted, framed, and glazed (framed size 555 x 489 mm).… Read More