Shelfmark
Lq.3.30 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Lq.3.31 (Copy 2)
Author
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805 - 1875 (Hans Christian)
Collective uniform title
Prose works. Selections. English
Title
Forty stories / Hans Andersen; newly translated from the Danish by M. R. James, O.M., Provost of Eton.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Faber & Faber Limited, 24 Russell Square, London, MCMXXX [1930].
Physical description
466 p., [24] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
[Copy 1]: Publisher's red cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine and illustration stamped in gold on front board.
Provenance
[Copy 1]: Manuscript bookseller's notes, code, and price in pencil.
Provenance
[Copy 1]: Bookplate of Shane Leslie; manuscript notes in pencil in Shane Leslie's hand pasted onto half-title.
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Booklabel of the M. R. James Collection of Eton College Library, with manuscript previous shelfmark in pencil.
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Manuscript bookseller's codes in pencil.
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Bookplate of James Orton.
Binding
[Copy 2]: With dust-jacket.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1]: Manuscript envelope, pasted onto front endpaper, addressed to Mrs. G. McBryde in M. R. James's hand.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1]: Manuscript annotations in pencil on contents pages.
Subject
Fairy tales Literary collections.
Added entry--name
Leslie, Shane, 1885 - 1971 former owner.
Added entry--name
James, M.R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862 - 1936 (Montague Rhodes) translator.
Added entry--name
Orton, James former owner.
Added entry--name
Faber and Faber publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng dan
Identifier
B24153