Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (The Folio Society)

xi, 288 pp. Red cloth, gilt titles, gilt decoration on cream background on front board. An illustration collection of seventeen fairy tales, with color frontispiece and plates and black-and-white drawings by W. Heath Robinson. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore, Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms of the fairy tale and the folklore and distilled them into a genre that was uniquely his own. Includes: The Marsh King's Daughter; Tommelise; The Snow Queen Parts 1-7; Elfin-Mount; The Little Mermaid; The Storks; The Nightingale; The Wild Swans; The Real Princess; The Red Shoes; The Emperor's New Clothes; The Swineherd; The Flying Trunk; The Leaping Match; The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep; The Ugly Duckling; The Naughty Boy.