The wood-nymph
By: by Hans Christian Andersen ; translated from the Danish by A. M. and Augusta Plesner.
Contributors: Plesner, Augusta; Chiswick Press; Burn & Co.
Publisher: Sampson Low, Son and Marston
Published: 1870
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Woodnymph; Wood nymph
Work titles: Dryaden.
Notes: 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.