"ANDERSEN, H.C.Livre Rare Book
"CHRISTMAS GREETINGS: Compliments of Emerson Piano Co." With an excerpt from Hans Christian Andersen's "Little Gretchen's Christmas" illustrated by Ludvig Sandoe Ipsen.
188297315Boston: Emerson Piano Co. 595 Washington Street 1882. 1882. Very good. - Oblong octavo 6-3/4 inches high by 7 inches wide. Softcover bound in pictorial creamy white wraps titled with an illustration in green white and olive on the front cover. There are short slits along the head and tail of the spine. Once apparently mounted into an album with remnants of paper glued to the rear cover obscuring any text or illustration. 8 pages with illustrations and decorations by Ludvig Sandoe Ipsen on each page. Very good. <p>RARE.<p>The Danish-American artist & illustrator Ludvig Sandoe Ipsen 1840-1920 served in the Danish Army engineer corps after training as an architect. Ipsen immigrated to Boston in 1867 where he designed and illustrated book covers book plates and posters as well as book illustrations. He illustrated works by Longfellow Sir Walter Scott Hawthorne and Twain. Ipsen is perhaps best known for his illustrations of the 1886 edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese". Boston: Emerson Piano Co., 595 Washington Street, [1882]. paperback
