E.V.B. [Eleanor Vere Boyle] (illustrator). "Tommelise borne on the Swallow's back to the South, where she sees the Fairy Flower-Prince" [from Fairy Tales. By Hans Christian Andersen].

E.V.B. [Eleanor Vere Boyle] (illustrator). "Tommelise borne on the Swallow's back to the South, where she sees the Fairy Flower-Prince" [from Fairy Tales. By Hans Christian Andersen]. [London; Sapson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, Crown Buildings, Fleet Street, 1872.]

Original richly printed chromolithographed plate (image size 162 x 215mm) presented in cream hand-cut acid-free mount (mount size circa 346 x 300), with original full-page caption plate separately mounted behind the image; fine.
A stunning original chromlithographed fairy 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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