[LEFLER, Heinrich (1877-1960) and URBAN, Joseph (1872-1933), illustrators]. ANDERSEN, Hans Christian (1805-1875). Tales by Hans Christian Andersen. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, [ca. 1910-1911]. Printed in Vienna by M. Munk. 4to. Illustrated with 12 color plates, most pages with elaborate color and gilt borders. Unnumbered. Publisher's white cloth backstrip over plain boards, endleaves printed with publication information (title-page is ffep.), in the scarce publisher's dust jacket (binding rubbed, soiled, with some edgewear to boards, front hinge repaired, contemporary ink ownership inscription on title-page, occasional faint foxing, thumbsoiling in text and endleaves, bookseller's ticket on rp.; jacket quite toned, worn, soiled, chipped, with several tears). A very good copy in a fair jacket. FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION OF THIS SCARCE GERMAN/AUSTRIAN ART NOUVEAU (?JUGENDSTIL") ILLUSTRATED BOOK. ?? Among the most noticeable Christmas books, then, is a copy of?Andersen, twelve of his famous?tales, very beautifully illustrated with marginal illuminations, and with pictures quite unusual in feeling and color ... The color-schemes are beautiful, and the fairylike, dreamlike quality of the?Tales?themselves, the fascinating possibility of the True behind the Seeming Real, has been preserved throughout. This is among the most charming gift-books of the season?" (North American Review, December 1, 1911). From the Collection of Louis A. Irmo. Measurements: 13 x 12 x 1".