1900 Scarce Book - FAIRY TALES of Hans Andersen illustrated by Helen Stratton.
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Author : Hans Christian Andersen. (Helen Stratton, illustrator).
Title : FAIRY TALES of Hans Andersen with illustrations by Helen Stratton.
Publisher : London, Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., no date (circa 1900).
Language : Text in English.
Size : 8 " X 6 ".
Pages : 441 pages.
Binding : Good and attractive original illustrated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover. Scarce in this binding!
Content : Good content (tight, some foxing and staining throughout - as shown, gift note of a previous -1910- owner on first endpaper).
Illustrations : Profusely illustrated with a colour frontispiece illustration and further full page engraved illustrations by Helen Stratton.
The book : Scarce edition of Andersen's Fairy Tales with illustrations by Helen Stratton.
The Author : Hans Christian Andersen often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875), was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children: his stories express themes that transcend age and nationality.
The Illustrator : Helen Isobel Mansfield Ramsey Stratton (5 April 1867 – 4 June 1961) was a British artist and book illustrator. Stratton was born in Nowganj, Bundelkhand, Madhya Pradesh, India on 5 April 1867,the daughter of a surgeon in the Indian military service John Proudfoot Stratton (1830–1895) and Georgina Anne Anderson. Soon after Helen's birth, and following her father's retirement, the family moved to England, settling in Bath. By 1891 Helen was in Kensington, London to attend art school, where she became a follower of Art Nouveau in the style of the Glasgow School of Art. For many years she lived and worked as a book illustrator and painter in Kensington with her widowed mother and siblings. Stratton remained unmarried and in the 1930s she returned to Bath, living at The Bungalow, Widcombe Hill. She died on 4 June 1961, age 95, at Cran Hill Nursing Home, Weston.