Set of 12 Greeting Cards

(C6 with envelopes)

Illustrations by Dugald Walker for

Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen (1914)

Reproduced from Museum-grade original prints

on Acid-free printing stock with Archive-quality inks

This set includes 12 Greeting Cards (C6 cards + envelopes) with quality reproductions of the color illustrations from Dugald Walker's suite first published in "Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen" (1914) - as shown in the attached image - set on the front of the cards in the manner of tipped-on plates (the example shown here is 'She was always picking flowers and herbs, those she knew her father could use for healing drinks and potions' from 'The Wind's Tale') matched with a tipped-on print showing the 1914 Title Page on the left interior of the card.

The right interior of the cards, the rears and the envelopes are blank.

"Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen" (1914) is a rare literary creature, in that the illustrator - Dugald Walker - contributed significantly to creating the anthology and illustrating Andersen's class tales. In doing so, he approached the subject matter in a wonderfully magical way, ably demonstrated through his Dedication (noted below).

I have never been anywhere except Richmond, Virginia, and New York, because I

have  always been told that only grown-up people wee allowed to travel. But the

good East Wind and the kindly Moon have taken me on rapturous journeys high

above the world to get an enchanted view of things. In this book I have put some

of my discoveries, but if you are looking here for real likeness of the things that any

one could see if he were grown up, you had better close the covers now. You cannot

expect me to draw an exact picture of the North Pole or of a Chinese lady's feet or

of a sea-cucumber. But if you are interested in what the East Wind or the Father Stork

or the Moon told me, then look with my eyes and you will not mind very much if

the courtiers in the ogre's court, or the dock leaves in the Garden of Paradise, are not

just as a grown-up person thinks they should be. After all is said and done, what the

young ones say about it is the all-important matter.

The images contributed by Walker to "Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen" (1914) are considered a suite that may rightly be described as his masterpiece.

Each of these cards is hand-finished and the set will ship free to all destinations. Sold as is with no returns, this set of cards is as described and will be shipped using the fully insured and tracked services of Australia Post (international buyers are responsible for any Customs duties or taxes levied in their own countries).