E.V.B. [Eleanor Vere Boyle] (illustrator). "The Child after death in the Angel's arms pities the poor rose tree with its buds and flowers crushed down and broken" [from Fairy Tales. By Hans Chr….

E.V.B. [Eleanor Vere Boyle] (illustrator). "The Child after death in the Angel's arms pities the poor rose tree with its buds and flowers crushed down and broken" [from ~i~Fairy Tales. By Hans Christian Andersen]. [London; Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, Crown Buildings, Fleet Street, 1872.]

Original richly printed chromolithographed plate heightened with gilt (image size 128 x 212mm) presented in cream hand-cut acid-free mount (mount size circa 297 x 350), with original full-page caption plate separately mounted behind the image; fine.
A stunning original chromlithographed image printed by Leighton Bros., taken from the 1872 first edition of Eleanor Vere Boyle's famous edition of Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales.

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