1890 Rare Victorian Book - Brothers Grimm's FAIRY TALES illustrated.

 

Author : Brothers Grimm (Paull, Mrs H. B. and Mr. L. A. Wheatley, translators).
Title : Grimms' Fairy Tales and Household Stories Translated from the German with Original illustrations.
Publisher : London and New York, Frederick Warne and Co., no date (circa 1890).
Language : Text in English.
Size : 8 " X 6 ". 
Pages : xii-369 pages
Binding : Very good and attractive original illustrated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. 
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, some light foxing and staining - as shown, gift note of a previous owner on first endpaper). 
Illustrations : Profusely illustrated  with a colour frontispiece illustration and further full page engraved illustrations.

The book : Rare and attractive illustrated edition of Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales.

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", "Beauty and the Beast", "Little Red Riding Hood", "The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats", "The Three Little Pigs", "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.