1870's Scarce Fairy Library Edition - The Brothers GRIMM - The OLD WOMAN in the WOOD and Other Tales.
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Author: The Brothers Grimm. (Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm; (Edward Henry Wehnert, illustrator)).
Title: The Old Woman in the Wood and Other Tales. (Grimm's Fairy Library).
Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, no date (circa 1870s).
Language: Text in English.
Size : 7 " X 5 ".
Pages: 128 pages.
Binding: Attractive and good original illustrated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright and tight, rare foxing and staining, offsetting to endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Nicely illustrated with a beautiful color frontispiece and some intext b&w illustrations by Wehnert.
The book: Scarce and attractive edition of Brothers Grimm fairy tales including The Old Woman in the Wood, The Wren and the Bear, The Faithful Beasts, The Three Army Surgeons, Three Little Tales about Toads, The Valian Tailor, The Poor Miller's Son and the Cat, Hans the Hedgehog, The Child's Grave, The Flail which came from the Clouds, The Blue Light, The Seven Swabians, The Three Journeymen, Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful, The Shoes which were danced to pieces, The Bright Sun brings on the Day, The Prince who was afraid of Nothing, The Idle Spinner, The Evil Spirit and his Grandmother, The Turnip.
The Authors: The Brothers Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786–1859), were German 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.
The illustrator: Edward Henry Wehnert (1813–1868) was an English-born painter of landscape, genre, and historical subjects, now best remembered for his illustrations in books and magazines.