LEFLER.- ANDERSEN (H.C.). Die Prinzessin und der... Lot 40

LEFLER.- ANDERSEN (H.C.). Die Prinzessin und der Schweinehirt. Illustrirt von Heinrich Lefler. Wien, Gesellschaft für vervielfätigende Kunst, 1897, folio, in beige silk illustrated broad-flap book jacket in grey and gold. Title, coloured lithographed frontispiece, 13 leaves numbered I to XIII comprising the autographed text and the coloured lithographed illustrations, some with silver highlights. Printed on the front cover only. First edition. Beautiful and luxurious fin de siècle Viennese children's book, one of the jewels of Jugendstil illustration. Precious copy bearing, on the title page, an autograph letter from the artist, signed in ink, to Kilian von Gayersperg. Very rare with a mailing.