1930 Scarce Book - GRIMM's FAIRY Tales with 24 Colour Plates By Harry G. Theaker.

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Author: Brothers Grimm with 24 color plates by Harry G. Theaker.
Title: GRIMM's FAIRY Tales.
Publisher: London and Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, no date (circa 1930). 
Language: Text in English.
Size: 10 " X 7.5 ". 
Pages: 176 pages.
Binding: Attractive and good quarter cloth binding with illustrated covers (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - mainly on the cover edges - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright and tight, some light foxing and staining - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the 24 wonderful color plates by Harry George Theaker.

Estimate: (Scarce with practically no other copy available worldwide).

The book: Scarce in this binding variant and attractive edition of those Grimm's Fairy Tales illustrated by Harry G. Theaker.

The illustrator: Harry George Theaker  (1873-1954) was an Illustrator, painter, designer, decorator for pottery, calligrapher, teacher of modeling, principal of art school. Theaker was also a successful illustrator, particularly of children's books. His first known published works date from about 1911, and most of his illustrations date from the 1920s and 1930s. 

The authors: The Brothers Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786–1859), were Hessian academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century. They were among the first and best-known collectors of German and European folk tales, and popularized traditional oral tale types such as "Cinderella" ("Aschenputtel"), "The Frog Prince" ("Der Froschkönig"), "The Goose-Girl" ("Die Gänsemagd"), "Hansel and Gretel" ("Hänsel und Gretel"), "Rapunzel", "Little Red Riding Hood" ("Rotkäppchen"), "The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats", "Rumpelstiltskin" ("Rumpelstilzchen"), "Sleeping Beauty" ("Dornröschen"), and "Snow White" ("Schneewittchen"). Their classic collection, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published in two volumes—the first in 1812 and the second in 1815.