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London: Kingfisher Books Ltd, 1984. Hans Christian Andersen. First edition. Unpaginated, over 122 plates. Book 9 1/2" x 12". Dark blue cloth boards with colour pictorial onlay. Gilt title to spine, and marbled endpapers. Grandfather Drewsen gave a pictorial scrapbook book to his three year old granddaughter Christine Stampe for her birthday. Assembled using more than a thousand illustrations cut from French picture-sheets, German magazines, and Danish newspapers the whole is massively greater than the sum of its parts. This endeavour was assisted by Drewsen's friend Hans Christian Andersen, who was a gifted graphic artist. Andersen also added verses throughout the book. The scrapbook they created has been reproduced as exactly as possible, with the addition of an English translation of the verses, and with a background essay and notes by the Danish scholar Dr Erik Dal. The skills of the modern paper-maker, photographer and colour printer have been combined to bring to life a beautiful…
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- Title Christine's Picture Book
- Author Hans Christian Andersen
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 270
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knigfisher, London
- Date 1984
- ISBN 9780862720896
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Christine's Picture Book
by Andersen, Hans Christian and Grandfather Drewsen
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Christine's Picture Book.
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London.: Kingfisher Books., 1984. With 122 colour plates, plus footnotes & a postscript. Footnotes and Postscripts by Erik Dal. Translated by Brian Alderson.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine./Very Good+. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
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Christine's Picture Book
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Kingfisher Books London., 1984. Bound in cloth, with dust jacket. 31x25 cm. Profusely illustrated in colour. 122 plates. . -good.-(Some shelf wear on the dust jacket, but the book itself is in excellent condition.). ISBN 0862720893.
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Christine's Picture Book
by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian & DREWSON, Grandfather
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London: Kingfisher, 1984. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Drewsen. Profusely illustrated, mostly in color. Thick 4to, blue cloth with inset label, pictorial d.w. London: Kingfisher. (1984). First English edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> In 1859, Adolph Drewsen and his friend Hans Christian Andersen created a birthday gift for Drewsen's granddaughter Christine. This beautiful and elaborate collection of prints, drawings, and original verses has been reproduced here as exactly as possible. V8735<br/> <br/>
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