First edition of the greatest book of the Golden Age of Illustration.
 
Folio. Publisher’s full blue cloth, richly lettered and decorated gilt, with Norse icons, designs and lettering designed by Nielsen. Illustrated endpapers decorated in black and gold. Twenty-four exquisite colour plates by Nielsen, tipped in onto framed mounts, under captioned tissue-guards. 
 
A fine copy, uncommon thus. Very clean and very bright. A couple of light spots internally.