BOOK
East of the sun and west of the moon : old tales from the North / illustrated by Kay Nielsen.
- Date
- 1914
- By
- Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen, 1812-1885, Dasent, George Webbe, Sir, 1817-1896, Moe, Jørgen Engebretsen, 1813-1882, Nielsen, Kay Rasmus, 1886-1957, Henry Stone & Son, Hodder and Stoughton
- Summary
The Moon, Father Forest, Great Fish of the Sea, and North Wind help a maiden rescue her true love from a troll princess in a faraway kingdom.
- Notes
Selected from the Norske folke-eventyr of Abjörnson and Moe; most stories in this book originally appeared in Sir G.W. Dasent's Popular tales from the Norse, cf. p. [1-2].
Plates accompanied by tissue guardsheets with descriptive letter press.
Imprint date from BM 7:716, cf. also NUC pre-1956, 23:206.
"Engraved and printed by Henry Stone & Son Ltd, Banbury"--Colophon.
binding & all 25 coloured plates Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand.
Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Binding: vellum, decorated in gilt. Provenance: Sir Joseph Kinsey bequest to the Alexander Turnbull Library, 1936. Copy no. 17, signed by the illustrator. Copy specific details available on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections. Acc. 53701.
Digital images available: binding & all 25 coloured plates, Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book copy. Details available on request from Curator, Rare Books and Fine Printing.
- Source URL
- binding & all 25 coloured plates https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE7371794
- Related to
- Digital Collection = Kohinga Matihiko 81268192800002836 Alma Collection
- Other Titles
- Norske folke-eventyr. English. Selections
- Publisher
- London : Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]
- Format
- [2], 206, [2] p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
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