1911 Rare Art Nouveau Book - HAUFF'S Fairy Tales, First illustrated Edition by Arthur A. Dixon.
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(Description)
Author: Wilhelm Hauff. (L.L. Weedon, translator). (Arthur A. Dixon, illustrator).
Title: Fairy Tales.
Publisher: London, Ernest Nister, no date. (circa 1922). First illustrated Edition by Arthur A. Dixon.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8.5 " X 6 ".
Pages: 344 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original Art Nouveau full cloth gilt decorated binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the full page and in-text illustrations by Arthur A. Dixon.
Estimate: (Scarce with practically no other copy available worldwide).
The book: Scarce and attractive First illustrated Edition by Arthur A. Dixon of Hauff's Fairy Tales including: “The Story of Caliph Stork”, “The Dwarf Long-Nose”, “ Fatima’s Rescue”, " The Story of the False Prince" and “The Cavern of Steenfoll - A Scottish Legend”, etc.
The author: Wilhelm Hauff (29 November 1802 – 18 November 1827) was a Württembergian poet and novelist. On leaving the university, Hauff became tutor to the children of the Württemberg minister of war, General Baron Ernst Eugen von Hugel (1774–1849), and for them wrote his Märchen (fairy tales), which he published in his Märchen almanach auf das Jahr 1826 (Fairytale Almanac of 1826). Some of these stories are very popular in German-speaking countries to this day, such as Der kleine Muck (The Story of Little Muck), Kalif Storch (Caliph Stork) and Die Geschichte von dem Gespensterschiff (The Tale of the Ghost Ship)—all set in the Orient—as well as Der Zwerg Nase (Little Longnose), Das kalte Herz (The Cold Heart or The Marble Heart) and Das Wirtshaus im Spessart (The Spessart Inn), set in Germany.
The illustrator: Arthur Augustus Dixon (1872–1959) was a figurative painter in both oil and watercolor who exhibited at the Royal Academy and Royal Society of British Artists.