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Translated from the original Danish manuscript "Dryaden".
Added ill. t.p.
T.p. and text printed within thin decorative black rule border.
Includes wood-engraved decorative initials, head-pieces and tail-pieces.
Printer's device printed on colophon.
Colour plates are pen-and-ink style lithographs printed in brown with the addition of blue, yellow and red. All are unsigned.
MASS copy 1: Bound in purple sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind. Upper cover blocked in gold with a small illustration of a woman dressed in a toga reclining by a pond. Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g. With binder's ticket: "Bound by Burn & Co.". With bookseller's label: "Augs. Webster and Stockley, Stationers, 60 Piccadilly. W.". With red-brown painted endpapers. With presentation inscription dated 1891. Lacking added ill. t.p. plate.
MASS copy 2: Bound in green sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind in the same design and with the same illustration as copy 1. Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g. With binder's ticket: "Bound by Burn & Co.". With red-brown painted endpapers. Lacking lower free endpaper.
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