"Andersen himself published a collection of brief tales entitled Picture Book without Pictures. The present collection of text provides a picture book with pictures. In addition to Andersen's own pictures as he presents them to us in poems and fairy tales about Copenhagen—and Andersen is an eminent painter of pictures, a painter in words—it contains Mads Stage's watercolours created for this book. They retain something of both the past and present of the Copenhagen that never let go its hold on Andersen.
—from Johan de Mylius' foreword
Related: Hans Christian Andersen's Copenhagen by Bente Kjolbye, with photos by Ole Larsen
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