first edition in English, translated by Mary Howitt, wood-engraved frontispiece and 3 plates, all hand-coloured and within tinted decorative border, plain decorations and embellishments, finger-marking and soiling throughout, hinges pulling with resultant separating, some gatherings sprung, original cloth, worn at corner-tips and spine-ends, some further damage to foot of spine, [Osborne p.17], 8vo, Chapman and Hall , 1846. The scarce first edition of the first translation of Andersen's Fairy-Tales into English from the original Danish. Children's author Mary Howitt specifically mastered Danish to make this translation. Three other collections were published subsequently in England in the same year.