1896 Scarce Victorian Book - The Brothers Grimm's FAIRY TALES and Household Stories, illustrated.
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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., 1896.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 " X 5.5 ".
Pages : x-602 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original illustrated full 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, name of a previous owner on the first endpaper - as shown, some close tears in the margin of illustration facing page 334 nicely repaired by a previous owner and not affecting the illustration itself - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the color frontispiece illustration, the 3 color full-page illustrations and the 9 full-page black&white illustrations.
Estimate: (USD 250 - USD 300)
The book: Scarce and attractive illustrated edition of Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales. A rare find in any condition!
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.