A very RARE and beautiful FIRST 1911 edition of "Stories from Andersen" with the wonderful colour illustrations by Edmund Dulac!!! 28 wonderful color plates tipped in. Contents: The snow queen. The nightingale. The real princess. The garden of paradise. The mermaid. The emperor's new clothes. The wind's tale. Notes: The ill. are mounted. "Printed in Great Britain. Text printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty, Edinburgh. Illustrations by Henry Stone and Son, Ltd., Banbury." --Colophon. Mounted color frontispiece, with descriptive tissue guard printed in gray, and twenty-seven mounted color plates (included in pagination). Plates framed with thick pale gray line border and accompanied by guard leaves printed in pale gray with stylized pineapples on the recto and a border of snowflakes above descriptive caption on the verso. Text pages with pale gray snowflake borders at top and bottom. All leaves framed with double pale gray lines. Book in very good condition. Inside like fine clean condition, externally stains on boards, light wear edges and corners, spine a bit darkened on lower part. Still bright gilt. Illustrated endpapers a bit tanned. Rarity