Hansel and Gretel Limited Edition 2016 1st Folio Society Brothers Grimm Kay Nielsen The Brothers Grimm, Kay Nielsen, illustrator

London: The Folio Society, 2016. Large 4to (13½ x 11 inches). Two volumes (main text and essay booklet). Illustrated throughout in color. Publisher s gilt-decorated cream boards, turquoise slipcase. As New. A Superb copy, As New condition. Limited to 980 copies, this copy is number 597. Lavishly produced Folio Society edition of Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories, a modern reissue of Kay Nielsen s 1925 masterpiece of illustrated fairy tales, housed in a turquoise presentation box and accompanied by a companion essay booklet, Dreams of Enchantment by Maria Tatar. Printed and bound in fine cream boards blocked in gold and turquoise, with a gilt-illustrated slipcase echoing Nielsen s original designs, this edition revives one of the great achievements of early twentieth-century book illustration. Nielsen s art, deeply influenced by Art Nouveau and Scandinavian folklore, represents a pinnacle of Golden Age illustration, blending ornamental detail with haunting psychological depth. The Folio Society s reissue reproduces the full suite of color plates and decorative drawings from the first edition, rendered with exceptional fidelity on heavy stock. Dreams of Enchantment situates Nielsen s work within the broader history of fairy-tale illustration, linking it to contemporaries such as Edmund Dulac and Arthur Rackham while emphasizing Nielsen s singular visual language lyrical, otherworldly, and austere.