Beautiful book in very nice, clean condition. Mustard yellow boards display beveled edges and lovely ornamentation at face with decorative embossed frame and much gilt. Same gilt to printing on spine and on all three page edges. Only faults are wear at crown and tail of spine and a mall piece missing at top spine, regluing of a small piece beneath, and corner wear. There is no cracking to the hinges, either front or back, and the brown printed endpapers are clean and lovely. The only pages that have toned are at the very front. Once the text begins there is only the faintest touch. Carl Thompsen's illustrations are wonderful and some are full page. Blicher, is a distant relative of Martin Luther, known in Danish literature as a pioneer of the novella. This volume, which was highly praised for its use of the Jutlandic dialect, is a mixture of poetry and stories. Written in the Danish language.