The Story of Hans the Swapper

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The Story of Hans the Swapper

$300.00

(Grimm Brothers). Boston, MA: L. Prang & Co., 1864. 32mo. First edition. Stiff pictorial wraps.

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A twelve panel panorama-style booklet based on a Grimm Brothers fairy tale. Poor Hans may be the worst swapper ever, first buying a horse for pay and then trading it for a cow, the cow for a pig, and so on until he's left with a grindstone that rolls into a pond. Prang was a premier practitioner of the 19th century craft of chromolithography and this, one of six Christmas Stocking tales, is a wonderful example, rarely found in such Fine condition. With a Prang advertisement on rear cover.