Presented by Ben Houston of Peter Harrington Rare Books.
Signed limited edition, one of 500 copies, this copy unnumbered. With an original pen and ink drawing by Nielsen on the reverse of the limitation page, initialled in pencil.
The richness of the Danish Nielsen’s colour images for this lavish illustrated book of Norse pagan mythology was achieved by a four-colour process, in contrast to many of the illustrations prepared by his contemporaries, such as Rackham and Dulac, which characteristically utilised a traditional three-colour process.
Extremely rare with an original drawing: we have neither seen or heard of another copy and no other copies traced at auction.
